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Featured Topic: Accounts Receivable
Customer Self-Service Portals Are Now an AR Best Practice
Article on Automation and Technology • posted 10/07/11
In today's supercompetitive environment, enhanced customer service is a key element in giving your company a needed edge. In the case of providing your customers with an AR Customer Self-Service Portal, this also translates into major benefits for your company. Not only can your customers transact business online with your AR department on a 24/7 basis, such a solution enables you to e-invoice and receive e-payments via the portal, speeding cash flow and reducing costs. And that's just the beginning of the benefits such a portal provides to both you and your customers. Continue…
Operations and Administration
Exclusive Survey: What Are Your Peers’ Top Best Practices in Credit, AR and Collections?
Article on Best Practices • posted 03/25/11
We hear a lot about best practices from the experts, but what do the credit pros in the trenches regard as the key best practices in credit, receivables, and collections? Continue…
- 12 Benefits of a Shared Service Center (SSC) Approach to Credit, AR and Collections
- Only 1 in 5 Companies Now Outsource Any AR Function
- Centralized Structure is Model at 81% of Credit Departments
- 5 Strategies to Boost Staff Productivity—Without Automation
- 13 Steps to Minimize Potential For Cash or Check Fraud
International
10 Ways to Speed Up Your International Collections
Article • posted 11/26/10
While recovery from the current recession is proceeding painfully slowly in the United States, the picture is more positive overseas—especially in Asia. This means many companies are aggressively ramping Continue…
- What Credit Pros Need to Know to Collect from Customers in Booming India
- ISP vs. UCP: Key Differences for Standbys
- Can Documentary Collections Replace Letters of Credit?
- 12 Questions to Ask When Choosing an International Bank
- Ten Tips to Improve International Credit and Collections Procedures
- Exploiting New Global Sales Opportunities Requires a Formal International Credit Policy
Collections
12 Benefits of a Shared Service Center (SSC) Approach to Credit, AR and Collections
Article on Credit, Receivables & Collections • posted 04/11/11
Credit professionals who work at larger companies with several regional or even international offices—each with its own credit, receivables and collections operations—are familiar with the enormous challenges this entails. How Continue…
- Exclusive Survey: What Are Your Peers’ Top Best Practices in Credit, AR and Collections?
- Arm Your Collection Staff to Add to the Bottom Line
- 10 Questions to Ask Before Deciding to Sue a Collection Account
- 10 Ways to Speed Up Your International Collections
- Collections Is Top Outsourced Credit, Receivables Function
Legal Issues
Credit Pros Need New Tools For New Era of Bankruptcy Risk
Article on Bankruptcy • posted 10/11/11
In today's volatile and highly leveraged business environment, corporate bankruptcies tend to unfold with far greater speed and unexpectedness than previously. This means credit pros need new predictive tools to rapidly assess insolvency risk among customers and key suppliers. MCRC previews one such new tool for our readers in the following article. Continue…
- Seven Best Practices to Counter Today’s Growing Risk of Customer Bankruptcy
- Verify That Digital Signatures On Credit And Guarantees Are Binding
- Authenticating E-mails at Trial: Not a Slam Dunk
- What Credit Pros Need to Know to Work with Forensic Accountants in Bankruptcy or Fraud Cases
- No Relief for Triangular Setoffs Under Bankruptcy Code
- Courts May Now Require More From Vendors Than the Filing of a Proof of Claim
- Credit Pros Must Rise to Challenge of Record FCPA Enforcement Actions
Career Issues
Credit & Collections Manager Averaging $55,000 – $65,000 in Base Salary in 2011
Article on Compensation • posted 04/11/11
Two recent sources of compensation data for credit professionals can help managers tasked with hiring new credit staff as well as those pros who wish to benchmark their own pay Continue…
Bankruptcy
Seven Best Practices to Counter Today’s Growing Risk of Customer Bankruptcy
Article on Bankruptcy • posted 08/24/11
Today's global economic storm clouds may presage a rise in business bankruptcies in the near term. Proactive credit and receivables pros should implement a set of seven best practices to meet this challenge. Continue…
- Credit Pros Need New Tools For New Era of Bankruptcy Risk
- No Relief for Triangular Setoffs Under Bankruptcy Code
- So You Want To Submit Your Preference Action To Binding Arbitration? Think Again
- How to Calculate Altman Z Score of Customers and Suppliers
- Reclaiming Trade Vendors and Their Rights Against Post-Petition Secured Lenders
- 10 Ways Credit Pros Can Help Their Companies Mitigate Risk of Key Supplier Bankruptcy
