Certificate in Credit Management: Accounts Receivables & Debt

Course Overview

Have you ever considered the impact of late payments, write-offs, or unpaid invoices on your organisation’s profitability and customer relationships?

Collecting money is an important part of the overall business. Timely collections ensure good cash flow, minimise the need for bank borrowing, lessen the possibility of crippling bad debts, and maximising profits.

When it comes to credit management, the skills needed to become a credit professional are more complex than you might think. To do this well, you need to be an excellent communicator, selling yourself to customers whilst at the same time juggling the sales and finance interests of the company.

Benefits Of Attending

• Improve credit techniques as well as the impact of your communication in the overall credit control and collections process.
• Understand the importance of gathering the right information about your customers.
• Use financial statements to make more informed commercial decisions to complement the other information we have gathered on our customers.
• Get to understand customer scoring and risk assessments to highlight your customers’ strengths and weaknesses to decide on credit limits/credit ratings

Competencies

• Credit Risk Assessment Competence: Evaluating credit worthiness based on financial analysis; applying credit scoring models and techniques
• Accounts Receivables Management: Developing efficient accounts receivables processes; implementing invoicing strategies for optimal cashflow; utilising technology for streamlined receivables management
• Financial Analysis Competence: Utilising financial ratios for credit analysis; interpreting cash flow statements and income statements; conducting trend analysis to predict potential credit issues

Who Should Attend

• Credit and collections team members
• Sales people
• Credit controller
• Credit control manager

Certification Criteria

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If you miss more than two hours of the course you will not be eligible to receive the Certificate
• Successful completion of the course assessment: The course includes a mandatory pre-course and post-course assessment along with ongoing in-class participation and activities

About the CPE Credits

A maximum 18 of CPE credits can be earned in the fields of Regulatory Ethics –5, Management Services - 8

• Programme Level: Essential
• Compulsory Requirements for Instructional Delivery for Virtual Participants
• Course Prerequisite: None
• Advanced Preparation: None

Delivered by Zahoor

Zahoor is a personable and versatile finance trainer who is experienced in delivering Accounts receivables training that is interactive, effective and fun. A qualified accountant by profession, he has worked with many Credit and Collections teams in numerous sectors before specialising as a trainer.

Certified by NASBA

Informa Connect is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

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