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Eight Signs a Customer Is Becoming a Problem Debtor

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Any subsequent collection expenses and bad debt write-offs are more easily recouped through additional sales than if your gross margins are low. If a customer regularly pays late, constantly takes payment deductions, generates a high return volume, or constantly raises disputes, your net profits will be negatively affected.

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The Definitive List of 35 Home Business Tax Deductions

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But while there’s a wealth of information out there about tax deductions for business owners in general, when you run your business out of your home, it can be far more challenging to understand how some of those policies apply. If you or your spouse are 65 years or older, you can deduct expenses that exceed 7.5% of your AGI.

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The Case for Outsourcing Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The only time AR comes to the forefront is when there is economic turmoil and an increased risk of bad debt losses. If they are not proving effective, ensure you are supporting them fully by providing customer information, access to your AR Ledger, copies of invoices, purchase orders, shipping documents, and so forth on a timely basis.

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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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21 Small Business Tax Deductions You Need to Know

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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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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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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.