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2005 Credit, Collection, and A/R Benchmarking Survey

Is your staff size appropriate?

Are you overstaffed? Understaffed?

How does your staff size impact your ability to conduct critical functions?

… And, how would you really know the answers to these questions?

Not idle questions, these. . .

In fact, they may be the most important questions a credit exec should be asking these days. We’ve just wrapped up our analysis, after extensive data-gathering, to give you some good hard data from which to explore these questions in our Credit, Collection, and A/R Staff Benchmarking Survey!

We’ve just finished a detailed and revealing survey of over 400 credit execs on their collection, and A/R staff benchmarking survey, which examines in detail such items as:

  • Staff size for credit, collection, and A/R functions relative to sales, A/R size, industry, and other metrics
  • How various tools are impacting staffing and efficiency
  • The impact of industry or line of business on staffing requirements
  • Efficiency in cash application processes
  • Full time equivalent (FTE) benchmarks for all credit and collection functions, broken down by function, and compared to A/R and company size, as well as a host of other variables
  • quality in the above functions. After all, efficiency is important only if you still maintain good results. For example, you can be fast at checking orders, but does that cause DSO to suffer?

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Credit Today Staff Benchmarking Survey Reveals How Credit Resources Are Deployed
Credit Today Staff Benchmarking Survey Reveals How Credit Resources Are Deployed Perhaps the central challenge facing credit execs these days is the issue of efficiency. With extremely low wage foreign competition in virtually all sectors driving business decisions, managers at all levels must constantly evaluate how efficient they are, and certainly, credit execs are no exception. And one of the best ways to know how efficient you are is to benchmark your staffing needs in comparison to those in your peer group. Further, just knowing the raw data on staffing probably isn?t enough. After all, quality still counts. So it's important to try to assess how well you can operate with a given staff . . .  keep reading
Checking References: What Are the Trends? Who's Doing It? Which Business Types Check Three References and How Often?
October 1, 2005
One of the issues explored in Credit Today's recently released Credit, Collection, and A/R Staff Benchmarking Survey was how often credit execs check three credit references manually. Years ago, . . .  keep reading
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