credit & finance

Credit extenders must make difficult decisions every day, and these decisions often have an impact on their company’s bottom line....

Data fuels Blue Book scores—inputs are analyzed within a scoring model through a proprietary algorithm. Trade experience surveys, which ask...

If you don’t think your company’s credit score matters, it does! Just ask your vendors and other business relationships. In...

CHICAGO, IL (October 9th, 2024): Blue Book, the leading provider of produce-specific credit and business information, today released a new...

This is a four-part online series on financial statement basics adapted from a Credit and Finance feature in the July-August...

This is a four-part online series on financial statement basics adapted from a Credit and Finance feature in the July-August...

This is a four-part online series on financial statement basics adapted from a Credit and Finance feature in the July-August...

This is a four-part online series on financial statement basics adapted from a Credit and Finance feature in the July-August...

It’s important for company owners to know what’s in their company’s credit profile, and this includes the Blue Book score....

An October 2018 Blueprints article entitled, “Extending Credit? Know the Score,” discussed the effectiveness of Blue Book scores. The article...

So how are Blue Book scores derived? In one word—data. Data drives nearly all decisions made today. In the case...

One of the more common customer or trade questions Blue Book Services frequently answers is, “Why did my company’s Blue...

So what really happened here? Why did this century-old company close its doors? In an email shared with The Produce...

In the summer of 2019, H. Brooks and Company, LLC BB #:100563 New Brighton, MN, had entered into a definitive...

Data, scores, and A/R provided sufficient warning and reason for vendors to monitor transactions and outstanding balances with H. Brooks...

Conventional wisdom would suggest 2021 was littered with business closures in the wake of the onset of the pandemic in...

Part of the equation when considering a payment plan is a solid relationship with the customer and to ensure the...

Charles Brown, director of credit for Hapco Farms, LLC, BB #:104132 a grower and importer in Westhampton Beach, NY, considers...