How to Use Credit Data to Support Your Commercial Credit Decisions - Existing Accounts (Aka Portfolio Management)

This session focuses on portfolio management, a strategic approach to segmenting customer bases for review, analysis, or action to prevent slow pay and bad debt.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM PDT | 03:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
IMG Rich Ferrera
Id: 8245
Live
Session
$119.00
Single Attendee
$249.00
Group Attendees
Recorded
Session
$159.00
Single Attendee
$359.00
Group Attendees
Combo
Live+Recorded
$249.00
Single Attendee
$549.00
Group Attendees

Overview:

Portfolio Management is the ability to strategically place your existing customer base into segments for review, analysis or action. This session will provide basic knowledge on the best practices to strategically place your existing customer base into segments for review, analysis or action to prevent slow pay and bad debt.

Why you should Attend:

Successful Commercial Risk Management requires best practices to manage exiting accounts and prevent slow pay and bad debt.

Your customer portfolio, as represented by your company’s Accounts Receivable $s, represents one of the most significant assets on your company’s balance sheet and is often used as an internal source of funding.

If not proactively managed, it could be a major source of slow pay and bad debt.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Overview of Portfolio Management
  • Understanding your customer base with portfolio analysis
  • Evaluating your customer portfolio and report results
  • Applying rules to proactively monitor accounts
  • Take action by implementing collection treatments or cross sell/upsell

Who Will Benefit:

  • Small Business Owners
  • Company Employees new to the Credit Function
  • Students who need or want to learn about Commercial Credit

Speaker Profile

Rich Ferrera is a lifetime Certified Credit Executive accredited by the National Association of Credit Management (https://nacm.org/). Rich had a 42 year career with Dun & Bradstreet in leadership positions in data and product implementation. Rich is currently consulting with commercial credit information providers and helping users, investors, lenders and consultants to better understand the commercial data management space.