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March 19th, 2012 by Robert Shultz
6.15.02 Strategies and Performance Measures for Your Credit Department NACM Credit Congress | New Orleans, LA
4.28.04 Credit Scoring & Portfolio Management Dun and Bradstreet Receivable Management Services – National Accounts Conference
6.01.04 Take the Holistic Approach to Improving Collection Performance Distillers, Vintners, Importers Credit Management Association (DIVCMA) | Phoenix AZ
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February 25th, 2010 by Robert Shultz
Many companies today find their liquidity has become more dependent on the collection of their own Accounts Receivable. By extending credit wisely and collecting more efficiently and predictably, companies can improve their liquidity at a lower cost, with a reduced dependence on outside financing.
The “Credit and Collections Tune Up” is offered by Q2C [...]
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December 5th, 2008 by Robert Shultz
Conventional wisdom has it that every effective credit professional must understand and apply the “Four C’s of Credit”. The “Character, Capacity, Capital and Conditions of the times” define a debtor’s potential to meet its future obligations. To be successful today, a credit professional has to look beyond the “Four C’s of Credit”. Credit extension is [...]
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December 4th, 2008 by Robert Shultz
Credit and collections professionals are sales people too. Anyone in a credit and collections role must realize sales is one of their primary responsibilities. However, if you ask most collectors if they are sales people, their hair bristles.
If you are in Credit and Collections, you sell concepts to people within your company and to customers. [...]
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August 3rd, 2008 by Robert Shultz
Chairman Article
As busy as we all are, it is hard to plan and take action towards our professional development. However, plan and act we must. If you don’t plan for the future any progress made is probably by accident.
When it comes to professional planning and development, two things come to mind. First, every CMA member [...]
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April 11th, 2004 by Robert Shultz
Chairman Article
As a credit management consultant and trainer I have the opportunity to meet credit professionals at all levels in many different companies and industries. They all seem to have at least several things in common. There are too many priorities, too few resources and a lot more to do than time available in a [...]
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February 8th, 2004 by Robert Shultz
Chairman Article
We all have the same 24 hours in a day to devote to career and our personal lives. How we spend that time defines who we are and ultimately our potential to meet the goals we set for ourselves. Sometimes too much of our time is spent heads down, concerned about the task in [...]
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January 1st, 2004 by Robert Shultz
Chairman Article
It is that time of year again; we are all ready to start anew after the happiness of the holidays, parties, family and friends. Sometime the afternoon the day before going back to work there was that sinking feeling. The party is over. Back to reality tomorrow.
The beginning of the New Year always brings [...]
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December 5th, 2003 by Robert Shultz
Chairman Article
I recently re-read George Orwell’s classic novel 1984. One of the predominant themes relates to the irony of words that say one thing and in reality describe the opposite. The main character, Winston is bombarded with double speak, the War Department becomes the Ministry of Peace, ignorance is strength, oldspeak becomes illegal.
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December 1st, 2003 by Robert Shultz
It’s That Time Of Year Again
Chairman Article
It is that time of year again. We are all busy with personal and business priorities. It is difficult to take much time to do anything we really want to do. Something else always seems to be in the way. Sometimes we do the important things in [...]
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