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Is Your Company Ready for a Downturn in the Economy?

Credit Research Foundation

Since then, we’ve weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, which many experts predicted would lead to a wave of defaults and business closures. Does my team have the expertise and experience to keep us ahead of potential default situations? During that period, the U.S. economy shed over 8.7

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Revolutionize Your Credit Application Process: A Compelling Case for Digital Transformation

Credit Research Foundation

This efficiency allows for resource redeployment to higher-value work, all while minimizing customer default risk. Driving Value with Digital Transformation: The transformative journey eliminates paper and postage costs, reduces the cycle time for application reviews and approvals, and introduces a dashboard for real-time visibility.

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11 Signs Your AR Portfolio May Be at Risk

Your Virtual Credit Manager

A growing volume of receivables overdue by more than 90 days indicates you are having severe challenges collecting payments before then, posing a significant risk of write-offs or bad debts. Commensurate with a rising expectation of defaults, is a worsening of the quality of your AR portfolio along with profit shrinkage.

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Are You In Control of Your Receivables?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Not being paid in full or in part causes a bad debt loss. The first step is to estimate how much bad debt loss you can absorb as a percentage of sales in a year. Conversely, if the profit margin is low, bad debt losses will have a much greater impact, and credit controls will have to be tighter.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

it just might help them pay you sooner! it just might help them pay you sooner! Share A Case in Point A parts distributor was having difficulty with collections and high dispute volumes.

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Due Diligence Doesn't End with the Credit Application

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Furthermore, new businesses and small businesses tend to have high failure rates, and there is good reason to believe a wave of defaults is coming. If the European parent company defaulted, the North American subsidiary would be pulled into bankruptcy even though its operations were profitable.

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Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Economic downturns can impact a customer's ability to pay, leading to delayed or defaulted payments. Simply put, if customers have weak financials or a history of late payments or defaults, there is an elevated risk of bad debt. There are a lot of reasons business fail. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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