Tag Archives: Collection Calls

20 Telephone Etiquette Tips for Businesses

Today’s technology has many advantages and many disadvantages. I often wonder how our society survived without the mobile phone. One disadvantage of mobile phones is the lack of phone capabilities. People seem to have no manners when it comes to their phones. Personally, I don’t like to listen to someone else’s conversation. Of course that […]

How to Detect Accounts Payable Fraud

Any business, company or organization can fall victim of accounts payable fraud. If it takes too long for the fraud to be detected, the company may have already lost too much money for it to be recovered. The business may have no choice but to file for bankruptcy or close its doors forever. If accounts […]

Career Opportunities in Accounts Receivable

Are you interested in a new career? The accounts receivable function is critical to any business that sells products or services to customers on a credit basis. This role includes billing customers and collecting accounts. These two processes, part of the same function, and based on the same operation (credit sales), involve some quite different […]

5 Things Collection Agencies Can’t Legally Do

Everyone has heard the horror stories about debt collection agencies. Obviously, most of these companies were breaking the law in whatever they did to collect the money owed. Many people don’t know what these collectors can do right, and what they can’t do, that’s a big question. Such a lack of knowledge means that millions […]

NCO Financial Systems, Incorporated: Are Illegal Debt Collection Practices Too Common?

Have you heard of NCO Financial Systems Incorporated? If not, you definitely need to know about them. This is a collection agency that plays dirty pool. Really, really dirty pool. I first became aware of NCO Financial Systems when I began receiving voicemails from them about two weeks ago. The voicemails simply stated that so-and-so […]