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How Are Your Customers Doing?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This company was fortunate to avoid significant bad debt loss until Ames Department Stores, Kmart, and Fleming Foods (a distributor) all filed bankruptcy within the same year. Bad debt losses were understandably huge. Making uninterrupted sales was deemed more important to their distribution network.

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Tackling Customers that Always Pay Late

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This creates cash flow shortages, an increased risk of bad debt, and a significant work requirement to mitigate the impact of late payments. The Impact of Bad Debts The problem with larger customers who chronically pay late is the increased probability of a bad debt loss, which is costly.

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A Focus on Collections & Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Best Practices for Handling Customers that Put a Low Priority on Paying Your Company Collectors face various challenges when dealing with past due balances, particularly when customers prioritize payments based on their financial situation, economic conditions, and internal processes.

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Avoid these Six Collection Myths

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If a company executive is not the primary collector, there is nothing wrong with them giving it a try. Because collectors are charged with the collection of past due receivables, they end up having to clean up the problems resulting from errors and discrepancies caused by sales, fulfillment and billing.

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Are Your Collection Efforts Myopic?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If you have a significant financial exposure to financially weak customers, your risk of never collecting and incurring bad debt losses is elevated, and therefore, efforts should be made to reduce the amount of at-risk receivables owed. only benefits. The credit exposure you have with every customer.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Assign Collections to an Existing Employee : When doing this you need to consider if the person being assigned collection duties has the time and demeanor to be an effective collector. Again, you need to also keep in mind the impact from putting other tasks on a back burner. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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How MNS can help to Prevent Bad Debts in 2023: Expert Advice from a Debt Collector

MNS Credit Management Group

Bad debt recovery: What is it? The money that your company receives after writing off bad debt as uncollectible is known as bad debt recovery. When the borrower is unable to repay the lender within the allotted time, the bad debt recovery process is initiated. How can bad debts be recouped?