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Supercharge Your Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For small business executives, and many mid-sized businesses as well, managing collections effectively can be a significant challenge, particularly when time and resources are limited. To improve your collection efforts, you need to first see what is under the hood. Do you need help assessing your customers’ credit risks?

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Mitigating Commercial Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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 Presents FinancialLiteracy.Rocks for Financial Capability Month

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The post RMAI Presents FinancialLiteracy.Rocks for Financial Capability Month appeared first on Receivables Management Association International. The website features a variety of tools, guides, videos, instructional programs, interactive games, and comprehensive overviews. More information about RMAI is available at www.rmaintl.org.

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Foster Faster Collections with Effective Reminders

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For most small businesses, collections are reactive. In the meantime, routine collections are driven by passive activities, often just a monthly statement. While statements provide a history of invoice, credit, debit and payment activity on an account, dunning notices focus on past due balances.

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Take a Strategic Approach to Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Each past due account presents a unique set of circumstances. Consequently, your collection process needs to adapt to each situation if you are going to realize the best outcomes possible. A one size fits all approach to collections will not achieve as high a level of recoveries and cash flow as a strategic approach to collections.

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Forecasting Collections – A Key Element of Your Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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). Readers of Your Virtual Credit Manager can access sharply discounted business credit reports & scores from D&B, Experian, or Equifax through our partner accredit.

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A Holistic Approach to Debt Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

People who are new to business collections are inclined to fall into one of several patterns. Seldom does a new collector appreciate the need for a balanced, holistic approach to debt collections. In time, as they become more familiar with the process of collecting, their productivity increases.