Recap from this infographic, the Safest Road to Business Growth:
Potential drawbacks of self-insuring with bad debt reserves:
- May result in overly conservative limits that reduce potential revenue
- Company bears burden and cost for interanl credit management resources
- Ties up working capital and impacts capital allocation of the balance sheet
- Typically does not protect from large and unexpected catstrophic loss
- Creates reliance on often-unreliable third party data sources
Benefits of trade credit insurance:
- Empowers companies to confidently grow sales without credit concerns
- Guaranteed protection against non-payment or slow payment from customers covered by the policy
- Enhances efficiency of a company's internal credit department with fast credit limit requests and ongoing buyer monitoring
- Allows exporters to offer safe, open terms overseas
- Expands a company's financing options by increasing its borrowing base with secure receivables