Learn how to leverage accounts receivable financing as an alternative financing source to expedite your cash flows and grow your business. Ideal for companies in growth mode. This somewhat complicated topic is explained in simple terms in this book, along with practical guidance on how you and your business can take advantage of it by increasing and expediting your cash flow. There is too much information on the Internet on accounts receivable financing and unfortunately most of it too complicated to understand and do anything with. In this book, you will also find information on the best factoring companies, types of services, cost structures and various factoring rates.

This practical, hands-on manual teaches everything you need to know about starting and running a small factoring business. With common sense directions and first-person experiences giving a "been there" flavor to each page, you’ll learn how factoring small receivables can be a lucrative, enjoyable business and an excellent tool for investing retirement or discretionary investment funds.

What Is Factoring and Who Is Jeff Callender? Factoring accounts receivable - selling and buying business invoices - is quickly becoming a popular means of financing for small companies. While it has been in existence for centuries and is widely used throughout Europe, many people in North America are only now learning about factoring and its benefits. Jeff Callender started his own factoring company in 1994. The next year he delivered his first book, Factoring Small Receivables (now titled How to Run a Small Factoring Business). Since then, his many books, articles, and ebooks have shown readers how to utilize factoring in their businesses to improve cash flow and enable growth. Others, after reading his works, have chosen to become factors themselves. Still others, hired by factoring companies, have been given his books and ebooks as required reading. The Small Factor Series The Small Factor Series includes five titles, each of which builds on the previous book (though they can be purchased and enjoyed separately as well). All are available from Amazon in paperback and the Kindle Store. The books include: 1. Factoring Wisdom: A Preview of Buying Receivables 2. Fundamentals for Factors 3. How to Run a Small Factoring Business 4. Factoring Case Studies (2nd Edition) 5. Marketing Methods for Small Factors & Brokers Fundamentals for Factors This volume, Fundamentals for Factors, asks incisive questions and lays a solid foundation for those thinking about becoming factors. While factoring provides handsome investment returns, not everyone should become a factor. This book helps the reader decide if factoring is a good match for his/her circumstances, tolerance for risk, and personal goals and requirements for starting a business. Previously published under the title Factoring Fundamentals, the new title clarifies its audience and provides updated material. Fundamentals for Factors covers the basics would-be factors must know: - What factoring is, how it works, and what types of businesses can and cannot use it. - How it helps business owners stabilize cash flow and grow their companies. - Why business owners choose to factor despite its higher cost than traditional loans. - Why the high returns factors earn are consistent, dependable, and determined primarily the factor. - How much capital you need to start a factoring business. - Four common risks every factor faces, plus two others you don't expect. - Specific steps, many of which cost nothing, a factor can and must take to minimize these risks. - One simple technique that will make a catastrophic loss impossible. - Six types of receivables most newcomers should avoid, and why. From the Author... The Small Factor Series is based on two decades I've spent working in the factoring world. I wrote the books to help those entering the industry get it right the first time. Factoring offers business funding to vast numbers of small business owners who often have never heard of it and who are unable to obtain other financing. I want readers avoid mistakes most small factors make. My books help entrepreneurial investors recognize the risks in factoring, and provide common sense practices to minimize risk and maximize profits. They also introduce factoring to small business owners who will benefit from this alternative financing, instead of just trying to obtain (often unsuccessfully) ordinary bank loans. Fundamentals for Factors not only provides basic information about what factoring is and how it works; its purpose is to enable the reader to make an informed decision as to whether becoming a factor is a good choice for his/her life. -Jeff Callender

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Praise for Accounts Receivable Management BestPractices "An excellent reference tool on how to manage the accountsreceivable process for any company. The use of real-life examplesmakes the concepts easy to understand. I recommend the book toanyone who wants to improve cash flow and reduce bad debtloss." —Michael E. Beaulieu, Senior Vice President, Finance CardinalHealth "Rather than simply explaining how to get the greatest returnfrom an investment in accounts receivable, John G. Salek revealshow companies shoot themselves in the foot when management setspolicies and procedures without consideration of the impact on cashflow. Accounts Receivable Management Best Practices isn't just forcredit and collection professionals who often spend more timecleaning up process errors and other corporate 'garbage,' insteadof managing risk. It should be required reading for C-levelexecutives, the sales staff, operations managers, and anybody elsewhose job impacts the order-to-cash cycle." —David Schmidt, Principal, A2 Resources Coauthor of PowerCollecting: Automation for Effective Asset Management "Enhancing a company's competitive profile is all about givingenough customers the right product, at the right price, at theright time. This author's real-world approach to accomplishing thisgoal through the prism of receivables management makes this book amust-read for those companies looking to make their mark as anorganization that cares about its customers as well as their ownneed to produce financial results." —Bruce C. Lynn, Managing Director The Financial ExecutivesConsulting Group, LLC "I have worked with John Salek since 1992, both as his clientand as a project manager working with his organization. Hisknowledge of receivables management . . . the technology, theprocesses, and the formula for success . . . are unsurpassed in thefield." —Stephen L. Watts, Manager, Global Receivables (retired)General Electric Medical Systems "Mr. Salek has written a masterpiece on the intricacies andmanagement of the accounts receivable portfolio. I would recommendthis book to CFOs, controllers, treasurers, credit managers, andsmall business owners." —Steve Kozack, Credit Manager Lennox Hearth Products "Written by an author who has been in the trenches and citesactual examples. This is not written in theory, but frompractice." —Milt Dardis, Collection Consultant Dardis &Associates

Optimizing Company Cash provides a comprehensive guide to all elements of cash management in a business including: Inflows Outflows Cash conversion cycles Short-term borrowing and investing International business How to structure a corporate treasury function In over 200 pages, the Guide explains how CPAs and financial managers can manage their company's short-term resources to sustain ongoing activities, mobilize funds and optimize liquidity. It also provides diagrams of work flows, step-by-step checklists, templates, and treasury tips for CPAs and finance managers who are responsible for making the most of working capital and short-term resources.