Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 16, 2024

If you sell on open credit terms, you need to plan on having to expend time and resources collecting from those customers that don’t pay when due. No matter how much effort you put into evaluating customer credit, some customers will not live up to your expectations. You need to be doing the right things.

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RMAi Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Louis, MO August 12th – Credit Control, LLC (“Credit Control”) is proud to announce for the fifth year in a row, our employees have ranked us as winners in the Best Places to Work in Collections program. Credit Control was proud to be recognized by our team members, Best Companies Group, and ACA International.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of Accounts Receivables (AR) automation has revolutionized our collection strategies. Manual collection processes centered on an aged accounts receivable trial balance (ARTB) lack the regimentation and efficiency brought about by automation. For a more in depth discussion of systematic collections, click here.

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RevCycle

JULY 26, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of medical debt credit cards being offered to patients. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is concerned about the risks associated with medical debt credit cards. Aggressive debt collection practices. Loss of credit reporting protections.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In our case, we found our readers had an affinity for articles on identifying collection risks and the best ways of dealing with past due balances. Hopefully, these insights will help you with your collection efforts Not a subscriber … why don’t you take advantage of a YVCM subscription?

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. It's essential, however, for everybody to recognize that credit decisions also have broader implications across various aspects of company operations.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When we first think about credit risk, our minds focus on the financial status of the company in question. To manage the risk that a customer might default, companies implement credit and collection policies and procedures. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Share Read more

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RMAi Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

CHANDLER, AZ – National Credit Adjusters, a receivables acquisition and management firm headquartered in Hutchinson, KS with a satellite location in Chandler, AZ, was pleased to continue support of an annual water drive spearheaded by the team in the Chandler office. It was another very successful water drive in Chandler this year.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Forecasting cash receipts from AR starts with a listing of every invoice owed you by every customer (net of any payments already made and credit memos issued). Again, previous customer dispute patterns will help inform any adjustments you make for disputes. Forecasts predict if you will have enough cash to meet your expenditures.

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Gaviti

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This mindset often leads to underinvestment in collections efforts, and when budget cuts are necessary, accounting departments like collections are typically the first affected. However, maintaining a steady cash flow is essential for business survival, and efficient collections directly impact the bottom line.

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RMAi Blog

JULY 30, 2024

PETALUMA, CA — Cascade Receivables Management, LLC, part of the Cascade365 Family of Companies (“Cascade”), is proud to announce that it was recently selected as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Collections by ACA International and the Best Companies Group. This year, 38 companies met the standard to be selected.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Finding the time and resources to complete every collection activity needed to be done at the optimal time to be done is a constant challenge. Most small companies come up short because the owner or CFO have more important things to do and there isn’t a dedicated employee responsible for credit and collections.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit Policy is an inextricable part of a company’s Sales Policy. If you choose to sell on open credit, the terms you offer are in effect part of the price. If you discuss credit terms with a competitor, you are in violation of anti-trust statutes forbidding price fixing. What’s Right for Your Firm?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

Some of the reasons for paying slow are more serious than others, but they all impact your cash flow and your collection efforts. There are several keys to effective past due collections and they start with your order-to-cash process. Do that and you eliminate a lot of potential collection issues.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 23, 2023

Incidentally, the higher your gross margin, the more latitude you have in extending credit to marginally risky accounts. Any subsequent collection expenses and bad debt write-offs are more easily recouped through additional sales than if your gross margins are low. Do you need help with your credit policies and procedures?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 2, 2024

Contacting customers to pay past due amounts (collecting) is an essential element of accounts receivable (AR) management. For most firms, late customer payments are a frequent occurrence and collecting them can be a difficult task. Collections also has to be done effectively with minimal alienation of customers.

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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. The remainder of the review will mirror an initial credit evaluation (here’s more information on Evaluating Credit ).

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Regal Credit Management

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These letters often claim that the sender has compromising information about the recipient and use fear tactics to demand payment or action. While the threats are typically baseless, the real concern lies in the amount of personal information these scammers have—information they likely obtained from data broker reports.

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SAP Credit Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In this blog post, you can find the latest collection of new capabilities in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, in the area of Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS). Thanks for reading this blog post. Stay tuned!

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Credit Management Group UK

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2025 could be the year for your business to improve and grow, however this relies heavily on how effectively your commercial credit management runs. Improving your commercial credit management in 2025 1. Stronger business relationships can be built within these phone calls which is extremely beneficial when collecting payment.

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SAP Credit Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

After typing in the SFC number, you can find under the section Components the corresponding information: Component Search in SFC Report Many customers however want to start their search with the component in order to identify all the SFCs and Orders which have the specific component assembled (backward search).

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 27, 2024

Imagine a world where extending trade credit was completely risk-free, and granting open terms of sale to business customers required no second thought. In such an ideal scenario, every customer would have both the ability and the integrity to pay their bills in full and on time, eliminating any need for a credit management.

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SAP Credit Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As the heart of business processes and information, having the right ERP software is essential to collecting, measuring, and sharing sustainability data and KPIs. Banks are increasingly committed to net-zero lending practices and, as a result, they are factoring sustainability into credit risk assessments for all their lending.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 6, 2024

Extending credit is standard practice if you are selling to other businesses. Most commercial enterprises are simply not willing to continue trading without credit terms, making it difficult for any trade credit grantor to generate enough revenue to survive on cash sales. In reality, granting credit is much more complicated.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. Photo by Jay Heike on Unsplash ) What happens during the O2C process, however, apart from credit and collection activities, can have an outsized impact on cash flow and AR performance.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 11, 2024

My first exposure to the power of accounts receivable (AR) automation came in 1990 when I was credit manager at ERICO Fasteners, a mid-market, specialty metals manufacturer. During the 10 years I’d been in business credit, I had never seen anything like it. Photo by ThisssEngineering RAEng on Unsplash In the Beginning.

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RMAi Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The bill also prohibits using any medical debt listed on a credit report as a negative factor when making credit decisions and gives individuals more room to address their medical bills before debt collection and reporting actions can take place. This bill will be effective on January 1, 2025.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a small business owner or executive, managing accounts receivable (AR) and navigating through various credit decisions is an integral part of the job. After all, credit and collections is essential to the performance of your order-to-cash (O2C) process and cash conversion cycle.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 25, 2024

Rising Days Sales Outstanding DSO measures the average number of days it takes to collect payment after a sale. A rising DSO indicates that your collections are not matching the rate of new sales, and if that goes on for any length of time, your cash flow will not be able to support the volume of your current business operations.

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CreditStrong for Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Conventional mortgage loans typically require higher credit scores than government-backed loans, but there are also many advantages to going with conventional mortgages. What is the Required Minimum Credit Score for a Conventional Loan? How Can Credit Scores Affect Mortgage Interest Rates? We’ll discuss these factors below.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

One thing that may help is adding some information or verbiage that explains in plain language what product or service you have delivered and are billing. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Learn More About Credit Reports Please share this newsletter with your small business customers.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Data for banks & credit unions Real-time pricing trends for loans Now that the Fed has lowerered interest rates , financial institutions will want to carefully monitor current loan interest rate trends in their markets to remain competitive as rates drop. Make informed decisions faster.

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RMAi Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In This Update Earlier this month, the CFPB issued an Advisory Opinion reminding debt collectors of their obligation to comply with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Reg F’s prohibitions on false, deceptive, or misleading representations in the collection of medical debt (see RMAI’s October 4, 2024 Member Alert ).

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SAP Credit Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

During analyzation the following values are necessary (to identify the proper trace entry): Comment User Date Click on the ‘Full screen’ button and open the overview screen of all the traces collected. Screen: Trace analyses fullscreen list Overview screen of all the traces collected. I am happy to add the new content.

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RMAi Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

On October 1 st , 2024, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra announced actions to reduce the burden of medical debt and address medical debt collection practices in a coordinated event with the White House. Collecting amounts not owed due to Federal or State law. Collecting unsubstantiated medical bills.

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RMAi Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Department of Treasury is also seeking information on the use of AI. The department issued a Request for Information on the uses, opportunities, and risks of AI in the financial services sector. On September 5, 2024 the CFPB issued its annual Fair Debt Collection Practices Act report.

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