Credit Insurance can be a valuable tool in a company’s credit control armoury and recent years have seen an explosion in availability of different types of cover.
From traditional Whole Turnover to Catastrophe or Single and Multi Buyer cover brokers can now offer a variety of policies to suit most businesses.
Read more: Credit Insurance - ICM & BIS Managing Cashflow Series Part Five
If you extend credit to your customers you are effectively providing finance to them for the credit period.
If your business does not have the cashflow to support the credit it has extended you could be just one bad debt away from insolvency.
Read more: Factoring and Financing Options - ICM & BIS Managing Cashflow Series Part Six
“A sale is not a sale until the money is in the bank”
A simple sentiment, but one that can often be lost in the thrill of securing that next big sale. But when the agreed upon payment day passes and you have no sign of the promised payment, what is the best way to go about securing the funds?
Read more: Chasing Payments - ICM & BIS Managing Cashflow Series Part Seven
Cashflow is the very lifeblood of your business, if it runs low a business will struggle to continue. If it runs out it will cause a corporate “heart attack” and kill even a profitable business stone dead.
So what can you do to minimise the impact on your business when you are faced with a short term cashflow problem?
Read more: When Cash Runs Short - ICM & BIS Managing Cashflow Series Part Eight
