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Are Your Collection Efforts Getting the Priority They Deserve?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As businesses grow and add customers, there comes a point when collections become a burden. Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash The first step toward a dedicated collection effort involves prioritization. This is a simple matter of efficiency aimed at collecting the most possible dollars with a minimum of effort.

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Bad Debt Is Lurking in Your Accounts Receivables, but Where Is It?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The typical course of action on managing bad debt loss is to identify, then focus credit and collection activities on individual customers who are financially weak. These customers pose the highest risk of bad debt loss. An entire industry became a poor credit risk virtually overnight.

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Effective Strategies For Managing Credit Risk In Your Business

Know-It Global

As a business owner, it’s essential to understand and manage credit risk to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid financial losses. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them. Did you know? What are you waiting for, get started now.

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How to Incorporate Credit Risk Management in Business

Credit Management Group UK

Some may find the thought of managing financial risk daunting, but it should be straight forward. The decision making process for granting a potential customer credit should be made up of a jigsaw of several different types of information, rather than relying on one method only.

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Credit Policy is an inextricable part of a company’s Sales Policy. If you choose to sell on open credit, the terms you offer are in effect part of the price. If you discuss credit terms with a competitor, you are in violation of anti-trust statutes forbidding price fixing. What’s Right for Your Firm?

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How Much Credit Should You Extend?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Extending credit is standard practice if you are selling to other businesses. Most commercial enterprises are simply not willing to continue trading without credit terms, making it difficult for any trade credit grantor to generate enough revenue to survive on cash sales. In reality, granting credit is much more complicated.

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. Due to a lack of risk awareness and misaligned priorities these actions often perpetuate internal friction, which can sometimes overflow into the customer experience.