Sales are sales. But sales morph into real money only when that elusive check arrives in the mail, as businesses inevitably learn in the School of Hard Knocks. A thriving company usually has many valuable employees, and the accounts receivable (AR) manager certainly ranks in that category.Or ought to.
“Some businesses owners, especially those entrepreneurial in nature, don’t take accounts receivable to heart as much as they should,” said Marvin Willis, senior manager of accounting, advisory and assurance services for Atlanta CPA firm Smith & Howard P.C.
Big River on November 29th, 2004 at 10:30 am
I own a small web design web hosting company, and A/R is my biggest headache. I have 3 employees and I do all of the AR / AP functions. It’s also hard not to get cranky with customers who owe several thousand dollars, when you are as small as we are, because they are my personal salary.
Aron on November 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Heel on March 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm