Accounts Receivable Best Pract » (New Edition)

JOHN G. SALEK is the National Leader of the Receivables Cycle Management Practice of Parson Consulting, a large financial consulting firm with offices throughout the United States and United Kingdom. He is a veteran financial professional with proven performance in receivables cycle management, including order and contract processing, billing, dispute management, credit control, collections, and cash application. He has worked in a broad range of industries, including healthcare, publishing, leasing, distribution, and software. He has contributed white papers and articles to Credit Today and Parson Consulting's newsletter, Knowledge@Work, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Business Finance, and Modern Healthcare.

Global business, conducted on a credit or cash-on-delivery basis, often produces accounts receivable that are a significant portion of a corporation's tangible assets, yet many of those same corporations pay attention to accounts receivable only in a crisis. Consultant Salek supports managing accounts receivable as one would a portfolio and managing the department as active in profitability, with advice on the processes that lead to receivables, in receivables asset management, in choosing and using technology to support receivables, and in organizational structure, reporting and metrics, acquisitions, and outsourcing. He even includes success stories. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR