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How Can You Improve Your Underwriting Process?
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You should never underestimate the power of a strong credit policy. Business operations depend on cash flow, which depends on customers’ reliability to pay invoices. You should base your credit policy on numerous factors, including how well it suits your business needs, and know when you should review your policy. Risk strategies versus organizational needs… |
Fine-Tune Your Credit Risk Management Process
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The start of a new year is always a good time to review your credit management and collections policies. Are your systems functioning properly? Are you managing risk in a way that makes sense for you and your business? If you answered no or are not sure how to answer these questions, now is a good time to fine-tune your credit risk management process. |
Accelerate Your Application Processing
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To keep your business running smoothly and effectively, you must be able to determine whether it’s worth extending credit to individuals or business leaders in a timely fashion. Try these strategies to speed up your application process while maintaining system integrity. |
Get It In Writing: Create a Credit Policy
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As businesses grow and industries change, it often becomes necessary for you to extend credit to clients. This process allows you to do business with more customers since not all can pay at the exact sale or service time. Many business owners handle this process through an invoicing practice, which is beneficial for many different… |
Business Owners Out-Manage Credit Compared to Their Consumer Counterparts
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Before venturing out to start small businesses, people often ask themselves, “How will this affect my personal financial situation?” Many are fearful new venues will have negative implications on their personal credit and debt ratios. In The Face of Small Business data study, Experian researchers set out to get an answer:1 Is there a correlation… |
Don’t Fall Into the Cash Flow Gap
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Have you ever waited around on pins and needles for a customer to pay a bill? Do you often check your accounts receivable transactions to see where you stand? Most business managers go through this, and the longer they do, the more anxious they feel. These thoughts are a byproduct of what is called a… |
Estimate Uncollectible Accounts: Best Practices
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Despite your best efforts, an unavoidable part of doing business is the occasional uncollectible account. Although every business owner wants to avoid this and does her or his best to do so, uncollectible accounts are inevitable. These accounts are receivables or debts with either little chance of being repaid or none at all and are… |
Get Your Business Collections on the Global Scale
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Living in a truly global economy has international commerce on the rise. While it’s great for business, a unique set of risks comes with this new marketplace. Extending credit to a company leader overseas takes extra care because of the added risk and logistics involved in business collections on a worldwide scale. Global commerce can… |
B2B Fraud: Do You Know the Signs?
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One of the biggest credit management risks that business leaders face is something many may not have considered: business-to-business (B2B) fraud, including bankruptcy fraud. B2B fraud occurs when a member of a business you have contracted with purposefully and deceitfully defrauds your company by taking advantage of the credit you have lent without intent to… |
Collection Agencies: Friends or Foes?
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If you have heard anything about commercial collection agencies, chances are it was not necessarily positive. Maybe you heard collection agencies are expensive or their employees ruthless — or perhaps that they are simply unnecessary. As a result of these misgivings, collection agencies often suffer poor reputations. However, these agencies and the professionals their directors… |