Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Photo by Melinda Gimpel on Unsplash ) The American Bankruptcy Institute recently reported that, “The 6,067 total commercial chapter 11 bankruptcies filed during the first nine months of 2024 represented a 36 percent increase over the 4,561 filed during the same period in 2023.” Trustee Program.

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RevCycle

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One consequence is that it can damage credit scores. Medical debt can also lead to bankruptcy. In 2020, medical debt was a factor in 58% of all bankruptcies. Medical debt is the most common type of debt in collections. Medical debt can also lead to bankruptcy. Medical debt has negative consequences for Americans.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 19, 2024

If all your customers paid promptly — by the time the invoice was due — you would not need to do any collection work. Collections is a reactive process. The amount of collection activity with which you are tasked is directly proportional to your customers’ payment habits.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 4, 2024

Successful collections require the coordination of a variety of activities: timely and accurate invoices and payment posting, monthly statements, email reminders and other dunning notices as well as telephone calls. A Cautionary Tale… As a corporate credit manager, I periodically was tasked with other finance department activities.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies selling other businesses on open terms need to ensure any collection agency partners can effectively collect non-performing receivables. Here are four prime example of issues that impede third party collections: 1. Doing this involves taking a series of proactive steps.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

Approving a customer for credit terms is merely the first step in an open credit relationship. Economic circumstances may cause you to tighten your credit policies and customer credit limits. Among other things, commercial bankruptcies have been steadily climbing over the past year.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 2, 2024

Commercial credit scores predict the likelihood of a business fulfilling its financial obligations, particularly regarding debt repayment and trade credit. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash First, a little background.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Monitoring and evaluating the credit risk posed by public companies and other large firms differs significantly in comparison to small and mid-sized businesses. Because most of your biggest customers will be larger firms instead of smaller, it is typically the larger firms that will require higher credit limits.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For example, there are firms burning through their cash reserves that may still be considered worthy of credit on their next order, but not the order that comes in three months from now. A customer can be paying you with no problems, but then their bank line of credit comes up for review and is drastically cut back by the bank.

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CreditStrong for Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Making the decision to file for bankruptcy is far from easy. The trade-off for having your debt eliminated is a long-lasting derogatory mark on your credit report identifying you as a huge credit risk. Your credit report sees the effects of a bankruptcy filing for ten years for a chapter 7 bankruptcy.

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Due

JANUARY 3, 2023

You might get asked similar questions by lenders when you apply for loans and credit cards. To find out, they might check your credit report. What are credit reports, why are they important and what is in them? What is a Credit Report and Why is it Important? Credit Reports vs. Credit Scores.

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Lendio

MAY 3, 2024

A personal credit score determines the level of risk that comes with lending to you. You use it to apply for credit cards and other financing options to cover major purchases. A business credit score works similarly, except instead of evaluating your risk as an individual, financial institutions evaluate your business’s viability.

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Know-It Global

JUNE 20, 2023

Credit control is a vital aspect of financial management for businesses. It involves managing credit sales and making informed credit decisions, ensuring timely payment from customers, and minimising bad debt. Setting Up Credit Control Processes 1.1 This is where business credit checking comes into play.

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Fundera

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many small business owners use their personal credit to run their businesses, and if you’re a sole proprietor, your business credit and personal credit are closely linked. It’s extremely important to work on building your personal credit, and not just for your business’s sake.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 11, 2024

Commercial bankruptcies have been surging since mid-2022. Department of Justice expects a sharp increase in bankruptcies with the U.S. Your Virtual Credit Manager has already covered this topic from several different perspective. As it turned out, half of this group had indeed filed for bankruptcy during this period.

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Due

APRIL 2, 2024

Life’s uncertainties—job loss, emergencies, foreclosures, bankruptcies—can severely damage credit. With a commitment to bouncing back, discipline, careful planning, concrete goals, and strategic choices, it is possible to recover from financial troubles and rebuild your credit status.

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Gaviti

MAY 30, 2023

How well your team handles collections determines whether you have the cash to make payroll, pay taxes, and cover other financial obligations. What Is Accounts Receivable Collections Outsourcing? A/R collections outsourcing refers to the practice of hiring another entity to manage your collections activities.

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CreditStrong for Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

An original creditor owed an unpaid debt will often “charge off” a credit account and send it to a debt collection agency. Most collections will remain visible for seven years on your credit report. How Do Collections Affect Your Credit Score? The consumer’s existing credit score at the time.

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RMAi Blog

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Q&A largely focused on participant inquiries about the process of submitting medical debt rulemaking comments, the likelihood of the rule proposal surviving legal opposition, and the relevance of credit reporting. RMAI is concerned that the current exemption for credit cards is not broad enough. First Credit Union v.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 21, 2023

Any enterprise extending credit to another business needs to have real treasury expertise. The role of credit should not be focused on preventing bad debt losses, but rather maximizing profits. Likewise, being heavily concentrated in a single industry is another good reason for working with a credit insurer.

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Fundera

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Well, if you’re a credit score aficionado like we are, you’ll recognize 850 as the absolute perfect credit score. Out of all your financial numbers, documents, and sheets, your credit score might just be one of the most important attributes out there. Quick(ish) Review: What’s a Credit Score? Personal Credit Score.

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Emagia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As NACM Connect ’s Great Lakes Conference closed the final in its trio of fall conferences in Ohio this week, experts from law practices like Lowenstein Sandler LLP and credit report giant Experian warned that corporate bankruptcy numbers are trending worse than any time since the pandemic began about 3 ½ years ago.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 16, 2023

When a commercial account wants to buy your product, chances are they will want credit terms. Business credit, also known as trade credit, facilitates the flow of goods and services between business trading partners. The purpose behind extending trade credit is to facilitate the sale of some other product or service.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Abrigo's most popular whitepapers and checklists on lending and credit risk Abrigo experts' insights on CFPB 1071, loan policies, and risk ratings were popular with banking professionals. Watch NOW Takeaway 1 Abrigo's experts produced many pieces on lending and credit risk to provide strategies and tools to help banking professionals.

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MNS Credit Management Group

MAY 3, 2023

There are some issues with the debt recovery process that the debt collection agencies confront that need to be addressed by the government at a higher level. In this article, we will explore the causes of these issues, their consequences in the b2b debt collection industry, and potential solutions. What exactly is certainty?

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Fundera

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

When you become a business owner, you quickly realize that it isn’t just about your personal credit score anymore. Yes, your personal credit score still plays a (surprisingly) important role in your business’s life, but now you have another financial indicator to pay attention to: your business credit score. The industry.

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Prosper

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s never too late to learn money strategies to help you manage credit, get out of debt and create a budget and saving plan that keeps you financially fit. In this first installment of our money management series, we will explore all things credit. How do you establish or rebuild good credit? Credit Basics.

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Fundera

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Just as you monitor your personal credit score by reviewing your credit reports periodically, it’s important to keep up to date on your business’s credit score by regularly reviewing its credit reports, too. But making heads or tails of your business credit report can be tricky. Reading Your Credit Report.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 23, 2024

Once each customer’s payment proclivities are known, assigning appropriate monitoring and collection strategies is easily done, thereby ensuring adequate collection coverage. Here’s what to do with any customer whose payments become irregular: Tighten up the collection strategy being used with the customer.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If your sales are consummated via payment at the point of sale, which may involve “pay with order” or “pay on delivery” protocols involving a credit card or an online e-payment product, managing Accounts Receivable (AR) will not be big issue for you. Cash Flow is the number one cause of small business bankruptcies.

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Fundera

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

We’re thinking of a number between 300 and 850… and it’s your credit score. Unless you have an absolutely perfect credit score—850—we’re willing to bet that you’d like to tack on a few points to that three-digit number. Building credit fast is no easy task. But there are things you can do to bump up your credit score quickly.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Credit evaluations, however, often take time. In small companies, this may occur due to a lack of credit analysis skills.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 13, 2023

Open Credit Terms dominate the Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace. Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash There are two types of credit risk that arise from selling on open credit terms: Customers paying beyond terms (past due) reduce your cash flow. Credit availability is shrinking. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 22, 2023

The bad news is that nearly 21 percent of last year’s startups will fail this year leaving you with a bad debt on your books if you sold to them on credit terms. This is why age is an extremely important consideration when extending credit. With there being only 21,000 large businesses (over 500 employees) in the U.S.,

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Gaviti

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One possibility is by running a business credit score and report on new customers. What is a Business Credit Score and Report? A business credit score is a rating whose goal is to demonstrate how financially responsible a business is as well as its potential for profitability.

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Due

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For instance, outstanding credit card debt reached over $1 trillion in the United States in 2023. About 28% of American consumers have at least one debt in collections, and over one in four people can’t afford to repay what they borrow. They’d send your loan to a collection agency if you didn’t respond.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Share Controlling Credit Risk Increasing sales to high margin customers disproportionately increases total gross profit. Explore options such as third party security on the debt owed you: Credit Insurance, an irrevocable Letter of Credit, obtaining collateral by filing a UCC Security Agreement, or a Guaranty of the debt by a third party.

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