On November 20th  , The Federation of Credit and Professionals will host our SVP of Business Development Sam Fensterstock who will present a webinar titled “How to Get Paid on Time – Ensuring Good Paying Customers Stay That Way” To register click here.Read More

Does your current collection partner provide you, at your fingertips, online reporting that provides you access to every piece of information that you need to manage and review their recovery performance, and track how they are working your company’s placements? 1. Are you able to review recovery analytics in a split second? 2. Can you...Read More

When an accounts receivable ages past its due date, it is vitally important to take positive action, not only to maintain a healthy cash flow but to adapt to constantly changing market conditions. In our current economic times, a savvy management understands that managing the cost of doing business is vitally important. Cash is king....Read More

At the end of each year, when you evaluate your collection agency performance, what method do you use to calculate their recovery rate and over what period of time do you analyze? We discuss this topic very frequently with our clients. Contingency based collection agencies only earn revenue if they collect the debt that is...Read More

Many of AGA’s clients participated in CreditToday’s Staff Benchmarking Survey earlier in the year and we are happy to provide you a copy of it for your review. Is your staff size appropriate? Are you overstaffed? Understaffed? How does your staff size impact your ability to conduct critical functions? … And, how would you really know...Read More

The recent outbreak of natural disasters left certain areas of the country reeling. No power, no water, and blocked roads resulted in no way to distribute product or services, and no way to collect receivables. Businesses both large and small were in a panic. Why? No cash flow. How are they going to get paid?...Read More

Your internal efforts have failed to collect a severely past due account, it’s time to call in a professional. But who should you call, your corporate/general counsel, a collection attorney or a collection agency? Let’s look at all three and determine what your best course of action is. USING YOUR CORPORATE/GENERAL COUNSEL  Corporate counsels are...Read More

“We have lien rights and we don’t need collection agency”.   “We have credit insurance and we don’t need a collection agency”, “We factor our receivable, so we do not need a collection agency”.   Are any of these statements 100% accurate?  We hear these statements all the time and the answer is no. Chasing debts can...Read More