Thank you to NACM National for featuring one of our members and NACM Northwest Board Member, Dave Newman, CCE.
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Jul 19, 2016
Thank you to NACM National for featuring one of our members and NACM Northwest Board Member, Dave Newman, CCE.
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Jul 26, 2016
A big special thank you to Lourdes Rice, Pacific Metal Company for her 19 years of service to the Foundation. Lou has a been an integral part of the foundation and has been involved since the beginning. … Read the rest
Jul 26, 2016
The NACM Foundation is offering 10 Scholarships for the 2016 Credit Congress in Seattle. You can find more information about the conference at www.nacmwrcc.com
For more information about the scholarships please contact (Portland Office) Lori Kimball, NORPAC Foods Inc.:Kimball@norpac.com or (Spokane Office) Jackie Popham, NACM Northwest: jpopham@nacmcs.org … Read the rest
Jul 13, 2016
Key ratio analysis in credit centers are using statistics and metrics to drive decisions on whether or not to grant terms to customers. It helps creditors summarize why these customers do or don’t deserve the terms and whether their numbers provide enough need-to-know information about their financial health. In short, when done properly, key ratio analysis lets creditors know “can customers pay their bills,” says NACM speaker David Osburn, CCRA, of Osburn & Associates LLC.
Analyzing key ratios is an important tool but does not eliminate other fundamental duties of credit professions. As many credit managers and collectors have discovered over the years, just because someone can pay doesn’t mean he or she will pay.
During the 120th Credit Congress & Expo in Las Vegas, Osburn laid out the following five key, basic key ratios:
Cash Flow.… Read the rest
Jun 16, 2016
Your Choice — Quarterly or Annual Membership Fees
When your regular membership renews, please feel free to let us know if you’d like to change the billing period. If you prefer quarterly billing, we’ll renew your membership for three months. If you prefer annual billing, we’ll renew your membership for twelve months.
And if you’d like to keep it on the same basis as you currently have, you don’t need to take any action.This does not pertain to members from Spokane who already are offered this payment plan option.
Please note: If you have a premium or corporate membership, this will continue to be billed annually. Thanks for your continuing support!… Read the rest
Jun 8, 2016
Written by: Scott Blakeley, Esq.
Credit cards are the most expensive payment channel for the supplier, and the fastest growing. Indeed, for some suppliers, customer credit card charges are one of their largest operating expenses. What can the supplier do to manage the card cost as more customers turn to cards to pay supplier invoices?
Cards Continue to Increase for a Number of Reasons
The share of customers that pay suppliers by credit card continues its dramatic increase in the B2B space for the following reasons: (1) card issuers continue to increase the rewards offered to individual cardholders (travel points, miles, and cash back), and corporate cardholders (rebates); (2) card awareness is increasing in the B2B space as card networks now cold call customers trying to convince the finance team that cards should be the payment preference for the invoices of their supply chain; and (3) the customer’s cash flow and working capital improves by using cards, compared with other payment channels.… Read the rest
Jun 8, 2016
Do you sell internationally? Are you aware of OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control)?
Office of Foreign Assets Control – Sanctions Programs and Information
The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes; terrorists; international narcotics traffickers; those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and other threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.
OFAC provides a free, online application to enable to users to simultaneously search all of its sanctions lists. OFAC Sanctions Lists can be found at: www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Pages/default.aspx… Read the rest