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Credit Cards – Reducing the Cost of Acceptance – You hold the keys to success

Credit Research Foundation

Risk Mitigation – A seldom noted but important point is that a properly implemented program can reduce your risk of slow payment, fraud, and default within your portfolio. A properly implemented credit card program is becoming an essential tool in the payment process for organizations both large and small.

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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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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Credit industry groups discuss the payment history of common customers, but they always have an independent moderator present so that customer discussion do not veer off onto the topic of how individual companies plan on selling those same customers in the future. The increased risk of a significant bad debt loss that your firm bears.

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Supercharge Your Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Photo by Willian Cittadin on Unsplash ) Neglecting collections can also lead to longer payment cycles, strained client relationships, and an increase in bad debt. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager have default risk probabilities and other financial benchmarks for analyzing your AR portfolio and revealing actionable insights.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

That all the above consequences can present themselves simultaneously, only makes the downside worse. Poor Credit Controls: Poor credit control practices can result in providing goods or services to high-risk accounts that are likely to pay beyond terms or even default on payments. Here’s more on Credit Checks.

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Eliminate These Four Barriers to Payment

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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. While the impact of defaults can be severe, late payments are very common though their impact less visible.

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Are Your Customers as Profitable as You Think?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The one measure that may fall short if the customer defaults is a Uniform Commercial code (UCC) Security Agreement — you may not be able to recover all your collateral or the proceeds thereof, especially if your UCC filing puts you in a second position behind a lender, which is a common situation.