Credit Risk Management

A California software company has developed a state-of-the-art accounts receivables platform uniquely designed to minimize DSO and maximize cash flow. 

In today's collections environment, understanding your customer data is one of the most critical elements in the collections process.  If you can't identify customer payment trends or tendencies it becomes nearly impossible to reasonably forecast company cash flow.

Understanding three important principles of credit analysis will lead to better, safer and more credible credit decisions.  "A matter of perspective."

When it comes to credit risk no one has a crystal ball.  The closest anyone can come is the ability to examine information from the past while looking closely at what is happening in the present to hopefully gain insight as to what may happen in the future.

Credit practitioners and finance executives have ignored this question for years.  A nine-month discussion that began on LinkedIn last year reveals why the silence has been deafening.  

Since the days of Adam Smith over two centuries ago, the extension of credit has served as one of the most important and enduring aspects of commerce.  Yet, to this day, credit risk--a key component of credit extension--remains an enigma to many.  Find out why credit insurance really isn't necessary in this CreditPulse feature story.

Cloud computing has been all the rage recently but cloud-based software technology companies are posting the industry's biggest losses, according to CSI data.

Cloud-based software companies, many of which have been publicly-traded for less than three years, posted some of the biggest losses in the software technology industry group of the CSI making the companies an increased credit risk factor as market capitalizations return to normal.  Find out which companies pose the biggests risks in this CreditPulse exclusive.