Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Accounts Receivable Training Program

The Accounts Receivable Training Program

By Rosella Campbell


One of the most important parts of any business would be the handling of the accounts receivables because receivables are money that has been earned but not yet collected. So it is actually income already but it has not been put into the hands of the business. Since it is the job of the business to collect these collectibles, there has to be a team that would receive accounts receivable training in order to handle the job.

Now when one would undergo this sort of program, he will be under a manager or a veteran who has been working in the collections department for quite some time. The teacher will first teach the students the definition of an accounts receivable and how to spot one. Of course he will also need to teach the students how to read some financial statements as well.

Now the balance sheet is the most important financial statement to understand because it is the one statement that would contain all of the account titles that the business would have. Of course by reading this kind of thing, one will be able to see the amount of accounts receivables that the business would have. The number beside the account title would be the total amount of receivables.

Now this would only show the total number of collectibles but not the details of each. Now there will also be a list that would be created by the collections department on the details of all the collectibles the business has. Now the list would have the name of the entity that owes money to the business and of course the amount that the entity would have to pay.

After that, one will then learn how to prompt debtors to pay. In this part, one has to learn how to be polite and firm at the exact same time. So one will be learning collection and persuasion techniques as well as basic customer service techniques.

Now with regard to credit extension, there are actually ways to know whether a company can afford to give one or not. The first thing to assess would be the financial state of the company whether it can afford the extension or not. The next thing to do would be to assess the credit rating of a debtor. If he has a bad one, it is not advisable to give an extension because he might not pay even after the extension.

Of course one also has to know about the documentation process when it comes to collections. Now one has to learn how to properly record each collection that was made. He should have a notebook ready to write down the details of a debt and back up the information there with some invoices or receipts.

The next thing that he has to do would be to reconcile the collections in the records of the company. In other words, he has to make sure that a debt that has already been settled will show up in the records. That way, he can properly keep track of debts that have been paid and debts that have not.




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