How can a business protect against uncollectible accounts?

Having a really aggressive collection person with the proper information at her finger tips

And who would that be?

Accounts Receivable

How can a business protect against uncollectible accounts?Hello shorty:

Don't give credit.

excon

excon, its hard not to give credit when you are in business and if your terms are like Net 30 days. So the customer goes way over and you have to call to remind.

Hello tickle:

Hard?? Well, the question was how one protects themselves from bad debts - not how to increase ones gross income. But even if it IS hard, so what? I agree, it isn't easy to make a buck these days. However, avoiding bad debts is one of the easier (rather than harder) tasks to undertake.

These days, even if you operate on a cash basis, you don't need to turn down business. And yes, there's a fee for that. American Express will be happy to finance short term business loans. They even give credit cards to use for that purpose. If your customers can't qualify for that card, you shouldn't be giving them credit either.

excon