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Storm Warning: Private Company Red Flags

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The Customer Delinquency Challenge Successful accounts receivable (AR) management involves minimizing past due balances to ensure steady cash in-flows and limit bad debt losses. In contrast, customer bankruptcies or other defaults typically cause the loss of most, if not all, the AR owed. Do you need help improving cash flow?

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How Are Your Customers Doing?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As discussed in a recent post , gathering customer information doesn’t stop with the credit application. This company was fortunate to avoid significant bad debt loss until Ames Department Stores, Kmart, and Fleming Foods (a distributor) all filed bankruptcy within the same year. Bad debt losses were understandably huge.

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Big Company Red Flags You Can't Afford to Miss

Your Virtual Credit Manager

While the principals of credit are the same for businesses of every size, there is a lot more information on the big guys making it easier to see any red flags that suggest they are in trouble. Consequently, a large percentage of your accounts receivable (AR) is likely to derive from large firms. Register Do you need help improving cash flow?

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Are Your Collection Efforts Myopic?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Gathering all the details needed to inform a decision becomes a time-eating burden. What if that information isn’t in one place? Too often, customer and AR information is kept in an assortment of data silos. As crucial as the consolidation of information on just three screens was the easy navigation between these screens.

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After the Credit Application: Getting to Know Your Customers Even Better

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Seldom is a poor decision made when there is ample information. One of the biggest challenges for any credit function is making a valid decision when information is lacking. That’s why standard procedure calls for gathering additional credit information until a comfortable decision can be made.

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A Focus on Collections & Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For more information on this subject, please click on this link. Besides driving O2C process improvement, the experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can apply default risk probabilities & other financial benchmarks to your AR portfolio to reveal actionable credit & collection insights. Need help improving cash flow?

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

Credit Research Foundation

Advantages of Embracing Digital Transformation: Enhanced Accessibility: Digital platforms offer services and information round the clock, providing customers with 24/7 accessibility. This efficiency allows for resource redeployment to higher-value work, all while minimizing customer default risk.