Is Accounts Receivables Factoring Suitable For Your Business?

Accounts receivables factoring offers a greater control over credit management. Factoring invoices is a financial management technique by which a financial company, manages, under a contract of factoring, the receivables of a company by buying its bills, by covering its claims and ensuring claims on debtors.

This technique allows companies to improve their cash flow and reduce their costs of managing customer accounts. Factoring has a cost: the service is paid by commission on the dollar volume of invoices.

Accounts receivables factoring is also an excellent solution to get immediate cash from sales made on open account, to improve the management of your receivables and the credit risk.

Factoring particularly addresses the need for cash of companies in the following situation:

* Strong growth
* Strong sales seasonality
* In a phase of significant investment
* Willingness to extend credit terms
* Desire to outsource the credit management function
* Development of their international business and desire to sell on open account

Each company or operation have particular cash flow needs. They also have different strengths and weaknesses, which may or may not support appropriate credit management practices.

All types of companies in any business sector are likely to be eligible for accounts receivables factoring. Restrictions may apply with respect to the time required to process the receivables, the type of invoices and the allowed credit terms.

Factoring is usually designed for companies wanting to optimize:

* Their short-term financing capabilities
* The management of their trade receivables
* Support, through factoring, their short-term growth

Although, the main advantage of factoring lies in the financing of receivables within 24 to 48 hours, upon receipt of invoices, it does bring about several other benefits such as:

* Guarantee against unpaid invoices
* Speed through online processing
* Reducing internal costs by outsourcing the management of receivables (monitoring, debt collection, reporting)
* Funding is not capped, it can increase with the growth of the business
* Trade receivable factoring is a simple process and is cost effective
* Offers the possibility of financing business start-ups, without historical financial results
* Factoring provides funding on domestic invoices as well a on import/export business.

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