Cloud-based A/R is rapidly becoming a must-have for businesses of all sizes. But where is A/R technology heading, and what should you expect it to do? Here are some key trends where this fintech is evolving. Can your A/R tech…
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The 2022 End-of-Year Sales Tax Rates and Rules report by tax technology solutions provider Vertex Inc. has both good news and bad news for your finance team. First, the good news: The overall number of sales tax rate and rule…
The start of the new year looks a lot like what we saw over 2022: Businesses are struggling to pay their bills. Late payments are higher than normal and it's creating a challenge for Accounts Receivable and credit departments everywhere.…
Almost every company faces this scenario at some point: A small to midsize business customer is late making payment for a product or service. Phone calls, emails and letters to the client reminding it of the debt and the terms…
Plenty of financial gurus lauded the Federal Reserve for hiking interest rates and its stated goal of ratcheting down inflation. After multiple hikes in 2022, the Fed intends to increase the target rate even further in 2023. How high? Seventeen…
Among the many year-end duties finance teams are working on is identifying an aged account that isn't likely to pay. This is the type of customer that Accounts Receivable called and wrote to so many times to collect, it was…
Collections and accounts receivable professionals will develop more confidence in their abilities and rank ahead of their peers by following the ASK method. What's the ASK method? It stands for Attitude, Speed and Knowledge. And it's a tried-and-true strategy that…
Whether your year-end closing is this quarter or still months away, your Finance team needs a strategy for keeping stress low and productivity high while generating those annual balance sheets, profit and loss statements and cash flow statements in case…
Securing an unpaid debt is challenging enough. The last thing any company wants to do is undermine its efforts by forgetting to cover all the necessary legal bases. A simple one to avoid? The so-called "mini-Miranda" warning required under the…
Finance departments need to know what's going on across the organization. Yet all too often communication channels clog up, with one important team being the last to know important info. And that's A/R. Picture this: Your A/R point person calls…
Collecting outstanding debts and maintaining cash flow all comes down to the persistence of you and your Accounts Receivable (A/R) team members. Being seen as "persistent" in your industry is the ideal spot you want to be. On the other…
Picture this: You're settling on a new automation program shown to help streamline account data and close payments more effectively. You're excited about the time it's going to save your team members and the money it's eventually going to save…
