Credit Management Handbook: A Complete Guide to Credit and Accounts Receivable Operations

Every business, regardless of its size, depends for its survival on well run credit and accounts receivable operations. This guide is a practical reference on setting up and managing these functions. Each of the book's 31 chapters addresses a vital credit function: setting up the credit deparment; granting credit; managing accounts receivable; collections; UCC filings; international credit sales; customer bankruptcy; and more. Over 100 of the most important forms, sample letters and reports necessary for managing credit sales are included. The book is extensively cross-referenced to help readers locate pertinent material and focus on a particular problem. There is also coverage of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Bankruptcy Code and strategies for hedging credit exposures against the short- and long-term effects of recession.