Tag: credit and finance
Defending yourself against fraud
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What’s the best way to protect a business from fraud?
Fraud: Spotting the impostors
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How do you spot a fraudulent business?
The many flavors of fraud
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Fraud comes in many sizes, flavors, and colors.
How to spot a fraudulent business
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Fraud is alive and well in the world of commerce, and in the fresh produce industry. But is it rising or falling?
Credit perspective during the pandemic
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We are well aware of the stress being placed on the produce supply chain and each of you. The term, business as usual, does not apply to present day market conditions.
Case Study: Dissecting the closure of Trinity Fresh
- Analysis
As an industry, we see hundreds of business closures each year, and, unfortunately, many businesses shut down irresponsibly, leaving vendors and service providers to wonder if they’ll collect on receivables. In this article, we dissect a high-profile 2019 business closure.
The importance of cash flow
- Produce BlueprintsCredit lenders want to ensure a company has adequate cash flow to service its debt. Given …
For your credit rating, knowledge is power
- Produce BlueprintsKnowing what’s in your company’s credit profile and how the business is rated or scored is …
Key influencers of your credit profile
- Produce BlueprintsA credit profile reflects specific detail on who owns and leads a business, how it operates, …
How do other businesses see your business?
- Produce Blueprints“Creditors have better memories than debtors.” So said Benjamin Franklin in 1758 in Poor Richard’s Almanack. …