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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

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Learn More About Consulting Readers of Your Virtual Credit Manager can access sharply discounted business credit reports from D&B, Experian, or Equifax through our partner accredit. Learn More About Credit Reports Please share this newsletter with your small business customers.

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Be Prepared to Shoot Down Your Customer's Payment Excuses

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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?

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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. Learn More About Credit Reports Please share this newsletter with your small business customers.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

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Photo by Alex Radelich on Unsplash When small businesses add customers and increase sales, their company’s Accounts Receivable (AR) will grow. it just might help them pay you sooner! it just might help them pay you sooner! Share A Case in Point A parts distributor was having difficulty with collections and high dispute volumes.

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

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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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An Inconvenient Truth about the Cash Conversion Cycle

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There was a lot of gnashing of teeth on the part of the sales team at the beginning, but invoice accuracy improved in each subsequent month as the sales began transmitting accurate pricing and terms to order processing, thereby reducing downstream disputes and payment deductions. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

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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. Please share this newsletter with your small business customers. Over time, AR Ledgers unfortunately tend to collect “Clutter.”