How to Create a Smart Credit Policy
An entrepreneur's guide to offering trade credit, crafting a credit application, and evaluating a customer's credit-worthiness Read story
Personal Credit Ratings
Collection Techniques to Avoid
Past-due accounts present a number of problems, one of which is how to collect them. When faced with this uncomfortable issue, avoid using these collectio... Read story
How can I establish the creditworthiness of a company that's a prospective customer?
Offices & Operations mentor Charles J. Bodenstab responds: A credit report on the potential customer is a good starting point, but I... Read story
Credit Bureaus
A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ... Read story
Credit Evaluation and Approval
Related Terms: Cash Flow Management Credi... Read story
Credit History
A credit history is a record of an individual or company's past borrowing and repaying behavior. In the case of individuals, these records are collected a... Read story
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established as an independent administrative agency pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. The purpo... Read story
Getting Paid
How to make collecting bills as much a part of daily business as making sales. Read story
Network: October 1991
Network new queries. Read story
Beware of Credit Reports
The importance of checking personal credit reports before applying for a business loan. Read story
Banking: The One-Page Credit Form
A short article about a bank's attempt to streamline its loan application process in order to reach small business. Read story
Experian Launches Report Package
The package offers home-improvement professionals access to ContractorCheck reports. Read story
Experian Unveils New Credit Resource
Experian, the U.S. arm of Experian Group, on Monday announced its new online resource, BusinessCreditFacts.com. Targeted at small businesses, it pr... Read story
Cleaning Up Your Credit
Here are four tips for lowering your interest rate and improving your credit score. Read story
Firing and Personal Finance
When is it time to let someone go? Plus, what to do when your credit is in shambles. Read story
Scoring The Credit You Need
Getting a loan is a faster, more objective process than it used to be -- for better or worse. Read story
Raising Capital Online
From angel directories to person-to-person lending, entrepreneurs' options are growing for finding and research financing options on the Web. Read story
House of Cards
Credit cards can be a valuable tool for the entrepreneur or business owner - or they can be a real bane, quickly putting a dent in a company's financial f... Read story
How to Secure a Microloan
Advice for small businesses on what to expect when applying for a microloan -- and how to seal the deal. Read story
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Protection against erroneous credit reports would be provided for small businesses by a bill introduced by Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) . "Availability o... Read story
Cypress Speeds Up SMB Credit Data Search
Cypress Software Systems launched a credit-data search tool that promises to power up its BizMark small-business automated loan judgment software. Read story
Employment Lines
Some guidelines for getting the information you need from job applicants -- without breaking the law Read story
Benchmark: Revving Up Receivables
The results of a survey that asked companies what steps they had taken to speed up collection times. Read story
Business for Sale: Western Credit-Reporting Agency
An overview of a credit-reporting agency offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con... Read story
Six Steps To Setting Up Foreign Reps
"When you have a foreign agent, you must compete with other principals for the rep's time and attention," notes Harry E. McGrath Jr., a former internation... Read story
Business Bankruptcies Decline
May 25, 2004 --Business bankruptcies fell 2% for the year ending March 31, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. ... Read story
Network: June 1992
Network questions and answers. Read story
Loans and Start-Ups
Financing the company car; launching a business when you're a teenager. Read story
Credit Manual Of Commercial Laws 1982, Edited By Robert D. Goodwin And Lester Nelson. National Association Of Credit Management, 475 Park Avenue South, New York, Ny 10016; 982 Pp., $35.
The 74th edition of writings and rulings pertaining to borrowing and collecting. Federal and state laws cited, cases discussed. Considers such areas as p... Read story
Microloans: Managing a Capital Infusion
An entrepreneur explains how, with the help of a women's business center, she was able to secure a microloan. Read story
A Leg Up from the Bank
One company offers its employees a package of discounted and free banking services. Read story
Bad Debts Can Cost You More Than You Think
Companies trying to collect overdue bills may find themselves in legal hot water, even though it's the debtor who's in the wrong. Read story
Banking: The Microloan Alternative
A small-business owner explains how she received a microloan and what it took to secure it. Read story
Find MAPs You Can Work With
Many merchant account providers (MAPs) refuse accounts to start-up firms or firms and individuals with bad credit histories. Some MAPs will not accept hig... Read story
Personal Guarantees for Business Loans
How do you deal with lenders when you don't have any substantial assets? It's all about give and take. Read story
Detecting Fraud
Steps an employer can take to unmask workers' compensation fraud. Read story
Legal Hiring Practices FAQ
A big part of your job as an employer is finding and hiring new people for your company. From composing job advertisements to making an offer of employmen... Read story
A Credit-Line Quest with a Happy Ending
A company's owner explains the process her company went through to secure a credit line, and how it is on-going. Read story
Deadline Approaches for Customer Data Rules
May 13, 2005 --New rules go into effect June 1 in the southern states asking businesses to combat identity theft and fraud under the Feder... Read story
Get More Out of Your Cash
The more you can squeeze out of your cash, the better off you are. That is true, but only to a point. Your efforts to get more out of your cash must be ba... Read story
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