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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

High Deduction Volumes: Consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, and in particular those selling to chain stores, often incur high volumes of payment deductions. Investigating and resolving deductions alone is much too costly. Is all necessary information easily accessible, or is it difficult to locate?

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It affects the level of bad debt loss (uncollected Accounts Receivables) you suffer. Selling only to financially strong customers reduces the risk of bad debt loss, (and the cost of Credit and Collections activity required). The increased risk of a significant bad debt loss that your firm bears.

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21 Small Business Tax Deductions You Need to Know

Fundera

21 Small Business Tax Deductions. For small business owners, there are few sweeter phrases than “small business tax deductions.” ” After all, everyone wants to save money, and small business tax deductions allow business owners to do just that. What Is a Small Business Tax Deduction? Inventory costs.

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Are Your Customers as Profitable as You Think?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

All these bad customer behaviors are a drain on your profit. Buy Credit Reports Managing Credit In-house Your other option is to assess, monitor and control the bad debt exposure yourself. Invalid customer deductions, however, account for only 5 to 10 percent of the deductions impacting a seller.

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Is Your AR Generating All the Cash Flow It Should?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

References require checking, a credit report must be ordered, all the information evaluated and a decision made. To make matters worse, invoice errors also tend to generate payment deductions (partial payments). To make matters worse, most payment posting errors will involve deductions. Here’s more on credit evaluations.

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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

Gaviti

How much bad debt does the company have, and how has this changed over time? Consider these additional KPIs: Bad debt ratio: This measures the monetary value of receivables you believe you cannot collect. Disputes and deductions. What are the average days sales outstanding? What is the company’s financial position?

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

” This junk AR comes in a variety of forms, such as: Short payment/deductions Debit memos Unapplied credit memos Unapplied cash Late payment fees and other surcharges Early payment discounts taken but not deserved Clutter obscures the true amount a customer owes and causes confusion.