Account Receivable Management
Accounts Receivable Management
What are 'Accounts Receivable?
Accounts receivable refers to the outstanding invoices a company has or the money the company is owed from its clients. The phrase refers to accounts a business has a right to receive because it has delivered a product or service. Receivables essentially represent a line of credit extended by a company and due with short time period, from a few days to a year.
Most companies operate by allowing some of their sales to be on credit. In some ways, business offer this type of credit to special customers who are invoiced periodically. The method allows customers to avoid the making payments in each transaction. In other cases, businesses routinely offer all of their clients the ability to pay after receiving the service. For example, electric companies receive bill their clients after the clients While the electricity company waits for its customers to pay their bills, the unpaid invoices are considered accounts receivable.
Why is accounts receivable management so important?
Accounts receivable management can make or break any business. As you probably know, cash flow is vital. While many businesses use accounts receivable as a way to increase sales, if it is not managed properly, the business will suffer. If you are making sales left and right, but you’re not getting paid, your business will not survive for long.
Why is accounts receivable management so important?
ACCOUNTS Receivable MANAGEMENT（3 keys）
Before a company provide credit to a customer it should ensure, as far as possible, that the customer is worthy of that credit and that bad debts will not result. Checks should continue to be carried out on existing customers as a company would like to have early warning of any problems which may be developing. This is especially key for customers of the company.
Once the decision has been taken to credit, then suitable credit terms must be set and the receivables that arise must be the costs of giving credit are to be kept under control. A key of the management of accounts receivable is the final collection of cash from customers.
Any company must have a system to that all customers pay in a timely fashion as, without this, the level of receivables and the cost of financing these receivables will rise, will the risk and cost of bad debts.
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