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How to Identify Financial Distress in Clients Early
Every business cherishes its reliable, long-standing clients. They pay on time, communicate clearly, and contribute consistently to your bottom line. But what happens when these “good clients” start to falter? When late payments become the norm, excuses pile up, or communication suddenly stops? It’s a scenario many businesses dread, and one that often signals...Read more→
End of the year – Days Sales Outstanding
Well, here we are again – the end of another year. While you review your balance sheet all year, December is when you scrutinize it upside down and inside out. What did you do right throughout the year? What can be tightened up? Days Sales Outstanding – or “DSO” – is one of the metrics...Read more→
Automation For New Account Credit Applications
“Back to the Future” in Credit Management Marty McFly would recognize today’s business credit applications as going back to his grandfather’s generation. Little has changed – until now, that is. The Credit2B ECOS™ Platform changes all this, as it completely automates and accelerates the on-boarding of new customers, even integrating industry sector trade, customer trade...Read more→
Calculating Bad Debt Reserves
In most companies, calculating Bad Debt Reserves is not a super-complex affair, but should be approached with a consistent methodology from period to period. Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP) requires that a Bad Debt Allowance (BDA), which is a forecast – an estimate of future bad debt write-offs, vs just directly writing off bad debts as...Read more→