Focus on Risk Management

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Aspects of risk management

What should you pay particular attention to when you make contracts with your customers? What does a smoothly functioning credit management programme look like? How is the financial and economic crisis affecting small and medium-sized companies in Germany? These and other issues are dealt with in our series “In focus“.

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Self-defence for suppliers


Self-defence for suppliers

When even repeated sending of reminders has no effect, further steps need to be taken. This should normally not be done without taking professional legal advice beforehand. Every manager should bear in mind the following basic rules here.

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Top Up Cover


Top-Up-Cover (Supplement to Credit Insurance)

Up-to-date information about the Top-Up-Cover scheme.

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Financial Communication


Recipes for Success in Financial Communication

One finding of the studies is that companies fall quite clearly into two groups in their attitude to communicating their financial data: those who advocate it/view it positively are open and proactive, while the sceptics prefer to keep their cards close to their chests – with the consequences that might be expected.

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Retention of Title


Deliver goods – but with conditions attached

In contrast to a cash on delivery purchase (goods against money), the buyer in a sale on credit terms receives the goods without paying immediately. In order to retain the right to take possession of the goods until final payment is effected, the seller can “retain title“.

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Contract Wording


Precise contract wordings

It is often only when matters have escalated into a dispute that suppliers realize how impre-cise wordings about conditions of delivery and payment terms in their contracts can be ex-ploited by buyers to pay late or even not at all. We will list the most important points to ob-serve in order to make clearly-worded and unambiguous contract conditions.

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Credit Management


Why do you need to manage your receivables?

We don’t make a living from our turnover, but from the sales which actually get paid.
Why it is so important to have a functioning credit management - especially in a crisis.

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