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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

Your Virtual Credit Manager

A common approach is to pledge a company’s AR as collateral to secure a loan whose funds are advanced shortly after you submit the necessary documentation confirming the AR’s creation, often an invoice and bill of lading. Clean up your AR Ledger In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices.

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Be Prepared to Shoot Down Your Customer's Payment Excuses

Your Virtual Credit Manager

You want to collect any small partial balances and recently past due invoices as well as the oldeest and largest past due balances. Ensure the customer has received ALL the invoices and other documentation requested, and that there are no unresolved disputes or open deductions.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

High Deduction Volumes: Consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, and in particular those selling to chain stores, often incur high volumes of payment deductions. Investigating and resolving deductions alone is much too costly. How much time is dedicated to collections versus payment deduction/dispute resolution?

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It's Time to Give Your AR Ledger a Spring Cleaning

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Subscribe now The Problem with AR Clutter In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices; or at least nothing seriously past due. Invoice balances that remain unpaid 60 or 90 or more days beyond their due date are not providing any benefits.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

What’s Involved in “Cleaning” an AR Portfolio In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices; or at least nothing seriously past due. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The other policy conditions (deductibles, co-pays, etc.) These customers will require more intense follow up of past due invoices (e.g., at 4-7 days past due versus the two weeks or more that is typical). Insurers want to be paid for the risk they bear. are acceptable and make economic sense.

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7 Accounts Receivable Goals for Growth in 2023 & Beyond

The Esker Blog

This often leaves customers without noticeably high balances or long past-due invoices receiving limited collections touches, forcing collectors to be more reactive than proactive.