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Entries in accounts receivable (3)

Monday
May172010

Can the needs of small business be met by accounts receivable and trade credit insurance?

By Ron Doyle

Many smaller companies do not have the capital to support their accounts receivable exposure, nor do they have sophisticated credit systems and dedicated staff. The lack of capital to support the accounts receivable creates a greater need for bank support and more comprehensive coverage.

Companies often cite two reasons why they can’t absorb major bad debt losses. Firstly, bad debt write-offs can quickly erode the net worth of a business. And, the second reason: cash flow is critical to a business and bad debts can impair cash flow directly or indirectly by reducing a company’s ability to get financing for their receivables through the bank.

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Monday
Jun222009

Using put options successfully as bankruptcy protection

Excerpt from ICBA Advantage Issue 3 - Spring 2009

Businesses want solutions that provide protection against the results of distressed customers going bankrupt. The ICBA member for Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, China and the U.S. gets client requests for creative and sound solutions to this problem. Yet, credit insurance is not always an available option.

An alternative that works to good effect is an Accounts Receivable Put Option (A/R Put)

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Thursday
Mar122009

Eight timely tactics for credit insurance users and policy administrators

By Rob Downey

When the going gets tough, the tough laugh, and paint the barn.

This was a lesson I learned during the last time we faced "…the worst recession since the depression." It was 1981, and I was a student hitchhiking home from graduate school. For obvious reasons, I wrote my poetry in those days under a pseudonym. (Click here to read the poem,Widewater West Virginia1981.)

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