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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

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If somebody mentions pledging your receivables, securitization, invoice finance, factoring, or purchasing receivables, they are referring to different means of collateralizing your AR. Clean up your AR Ledger In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices. Review your Credit and Collection Policies.

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Mitigating Commercial Credit Fraud

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When a fraud isn’t quickly detected, legal action to recover past due invoices can impact unaware customers. In 2022, 55% of companies suffered at least one payment fraud attack, while 12% were targeted upwards of 10 times according to a report published August 2, 2024 by Trustpair.

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Foster Faster Collections with Effective Reminders

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If you haven’t yet implemented one or the other, there is no time like the present to incorporate them in your collection strategy. Using a report generator, it should not be difficult to create a report in CSV or XLS format that both lists and totals past due invoices by account.

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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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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Credit industry groups discuss the payment history of common customers, but they always have an independent moderator present so that customer discussion do not veer off onto the topic of how individual companies plan on selling those same customers in the future. These customers will require more intense follow up of past due invoices (e.g.,

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late. Match as many unapplied payments and unapplied credit memos to open invoices, deductions, and debit memos as possible. Please share this newsletter with your small business customers.

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How Asset-Based Lenders Applications Differ from Traditional Options

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It’s called asset-based lending, and it’s an option that focuses less on your business’s past, and more on your present and the future. When working with a factoring company , the lender actually purchases your outstanding invoices outright in exchange for a flat sum, as well as for a percentage of payments received.