Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 2, 2024

Commercial credit scores predict the likelihood of a business fulfilling its financial obligations, particularly regarding debt repayment and trade credit. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a consequence, commercial accounts receivable (AR) portfolios are at an increasing risk of suffering bad debt losses. The immediate precursor to bad debts is increasing percentages of delinquent receivables, especially in the over 60 and 90 day aging categories. Commensurate with that, the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

Approving a customer for credit terms is merely the first step in an open credit relationship. Economic circumstances may cause you to tighten your credit policies and customer credit limits. Situations change, both for you and for your customer. Even more likely are changes to a customer’s business.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 25, 2024

Rising Days Sales Outstanding DSO measures the average number of days it takes to collect payment after a sale. A rising DSO indicates that your collections are not matching the rate of new sales, and if that goes on for any length of time, your cash flow will not be able to support the volume of your current business operations.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 7, 2025

Accelerating sales can increase DSO, but most often the cause is problems in the order-to-cash (O2C) pipeline affecting collections. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Learn More About Credit Reports Please share this newsletter with your small business customers. Need help improving cash flow?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For small business executives, and many mid-sized businesses as well, managing collections effectively can be a significant challenge, particularly when time and resources are limited. To improve your collection efforts, you need to first see what is under the hood. Do you need help assessing your customers’ credit risks?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies selling other businesses on open terms need to ensure any collection agency partners can effectively collect non-performing receivables. Here are four prime example of issues that impede third party collections: 1. Doing this involves taking a series of proactive steps.

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Know-It Global

APRIL 26, 2023

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. When you sign up for a free Know-it account you’ll also get a free business credit report!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Extending credit is the financial backbone of Business-to-Business (B2B) commerce. Not being paid in full or in part causes a bad debt loss. Not being paid on time reduces profits commensurate with your cost of capital and cost of collections — the longer the time it takes to be paid, the higher those costs.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 18, 2024

Photo by Muhammad Daudy on Unsplash ) The problem with startup companies: there is a high probability they will fail , leaving you with a bad debt on your books. That’s why it is standard to ask on a credit applications the year in which the business was formed. Do you need help managing credit and collections?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 6, 2024

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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Accounts receivable (AR) represent the amounts owed your business by your customers for the purchase of goods or services delivered on credit. The other factor is the credit worthiness of your customers, which you can impact, but cannot guarantee. Especially in these times of high interest rates and economic uncertainty.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Subscribe now Impact of Offering Discounts From the seller’s perspective, the effect on revenue from offering an early pay discount needs to be weighed against the potential reduction in Accounts Receivable (AR) carrying costs, bad debt and collection expenses. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 13, 2023

Open Credit Terms dominate the Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace. Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash There are two types of credit risk that arise from selling on open credit terms: Customers paying beyond terms (past due) reduce your cash flow. Far more damaging is a customer that defaults (never pays).

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This prediction, although bold, is corroborated by the broader economic data, including escalating corporate bankruptcies, tightening loan standards by banks, and the surge in delinquent debt balances and consumer debt. For more on credit evaluations, check out this post. Here’s more on setting credit limits.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 16, 2023

When a commercial account wants to buy your product, chances are they will want credit terms. Business credit, also known as trade credit, facilitates the flow of goods and services between business trading partners. The purpose behind extending trade credit is to facilitate the sale of some other product or service.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 18, 2023

Just as payroll has been cost effectively handled by external processors for over 70 years, so can a variety of credit, collection and AR tasks and processes. Credit Risk Evaluations : If you purchase Credit Risk Insurance, the insurer will serve as your Credit Department. to minimize the chance of bad debt loss.

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Know-It Global

JUNE 20, 2023

Credit control is a vital aspect of financial management for businesses. It involves managing credit sales and making informed credit decisions, ensuring timely payment from customers, and minimising bad debt. Setting Up Credit Control Processes 1.1 This is where business credit checking comes into play.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 20, 2023

Special Offer: On June 26, 2023, at 1PM EDT, David Schmidt will be leading a live webinar covering “ Strategic Collections: Process Efficiency and Tactics to Drive Superior AR Performance.” In terms of extending credit, tightening credit controls to minimize the risk of bad debt loss is a natural result of this mindset.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 11, 2023

Subscribe now Ten Reasons Accounts Receivables Under Perform Failure to Conduct Credit Checks: Sometimes newer business are so excited to get an order, they fail to check the new customer’s credit, only to end up selling to a deadbeat and not getting paid. Here’s more on Credit Checks.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Monitoring and evaluating the credit risk posed by public companies and other large firms differs significantly in comparison to small and mid-sized businesses. Because most of your biggest customers will be larger firms instead of smaller, it is typically the larger firms that will require higher credit limits. Share Read more

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 10, 2023

Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash Although defaults resulting in significant bad debt losses are a rare event for trade creditors, much of the focus of AR Management is on credit risk. Banks make money by lending so they pay close attention to the credit risk of the borrower. What are these barriers?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Share Controlling Credit Risk Increasing sales to high margin customers disproportionately increases total gross profit. Explore options such as third party security on the debt owed you: Credit Insurance, an irrevocable Letter of Credit, obtaining collateral by filing a UCC Security Agreement, or a Guaranty of the debt by a third party.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. Photo by Jay Heike on Unsplash ) What happens during the O2C process, however, apart from credit and collection activities, can have an outsized impact on cash flow and AR performance.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Credit evaluations, however, often take time. In small companies, this may occur due to a lack of credit analysis skills.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If your sales are consummated via payment at the point of sale, which may involve “pay with order” or “pay on delivery” protocols involving a credit card or an online e-payment product, managing Accounts Receivable (AR) will not be big issue for you. The company ended up writing off millions of dollars in bad debt.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 22, 2023

The bad news is that nearly 21 percent of last year’s startups will fail this year leaving you with a bad debt on your books if you sold to them on credit terms. This is why age is an extremely important consideration when extending credit. Even if it does, evaluate the challenges the startup will face.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Who absorbs any potential bad debt loss — does the lender have recourse to return the AR if they cannot collect it versus a non-recourse arrangement? Who performs the Credit & Collection activities — you or the finance company? Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication.

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MNS Credit Management Group

JULY 12, 2023

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 may loan risks be diminished?

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RevCycle

JULY 6, 2021

The following excerpt is from a recent Forbes article : “ According to interviews AccessOne conducted with 47 healthcare billing executives, 43% of providers reported increases in patient requests for payment plans even as hospitals face their own financial struggles, and 40% report an increase in bad debt.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now that you understand that your customer has become a liability, it’s time to review their credit worthiness again so you can make informed choices. Order a new credit report, request updated financial statements, and re-check the references provided when they first applied for credit.

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Eastern Credit Management Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

There are two places that you can institute policies around to help minimize your risk of overdue accounts receivable before you extend credit to your customer and after the overdue account is accrued. A detailed credit application does two things, it informs your customer of the terms and conditions of the credit you extend.

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aptic

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the wake of the banking crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) defined three grades of non-performing loans: past due, unlikely-to-pay (UTP) and bad loans. Today, the UTP category is more relevant than ever in the field of credit management. To identify UTP debts, you need to pick up on the warning signs in good time.

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Know-It Global

MAY 8, 2023

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. When you sign up for a free Know-it account you’ll also get a free business credit report!

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Know-It Global

MAY 8, 2023

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. When you sign up for a free Know-it account you’ll also get a free business credit report!

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Know-It Global

JULY 5, 2023

Maintaining a healthy cashflow through credit control is crucial for the long-term success and sustainability of any enterprise, especially against the backdrop of soaring insolvencies and record instances of late payment. One effective strategy for achieving this goal is to implement a robust credit control system.

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Know-It Global

JULY 26, 2023

Evaluate and improve your credit terms Begin by assessing your current credit terms and ensure they are reasonable and aligned with industry standards. Consider shortening the credit period, tightening credit limits, or implementing stricter credit approval processes. Struggling for time?

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