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Factors often provide their clients four key services: information on the creditworthiness of their prospective customers domestic and international, and, in nonrecourse factoring, acceptance of the credit risk for " approved " accounts ; maintain the history of payments by customers ( i. e., accounts receivable ledger ); daily management reports on collections ; and, make the actual collection calls.
The outsourced credit function both extends the small firms effective addressable marketplace and insulates it from the survival-threatening destructive impact of a bankruptcy or financial difficulty of a major customer.
More importantly, the services insure the entrepreneurs and owners against a major source of a liquidity crises and their equity.
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