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The CMA Nominating Committee is now accepting nominations and applications for service on the 2012-2013 Board of Directors. If you would like to nominate a candidate for service, or you are interested in applying for a Director position directly, please complete a Candidate Nomination or Application form and return it to CMA by January 13, [...]

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Stop me if you have heard this before but “I can’t believe it is already Thanksgiving and that 2011 is almost over”.  I think I can finally throw out all the information I gathered on the effects Y2K is going to have on the business community. Having just finished welcoming to CMA, 9 new companies [...]

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Collection Calls, Work Smart Not Hard – Michael Dennis, CBF

On my first day following training as a collector, I was assigned a relatively small group of accounts by my manager.   After about two hours, my manager called me into his office.  He asked if I remembered calling a customer about a $57 past due invoice that was less than a week past due.  [...]

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Get Serious About Antitrust Violations – Michael Dennis, CBF

Some time ago, I attended an industry credit group meeting as a prospective member.  The group was run by an NACM affiliate, but it was not run by Credit Management Association.  Like every other industry credit group meeting, the President of the group read the antitrust statement, which was followed by introductions. The group meeting [...]

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The bad news is the October Credit Managers’ Index (CMI) did not see September’s big gains. The good news is that there was no retreat from September’s numbers. The overall index hit 53.8 in September after tumbling to 52.7 in the previous month, but in October the index essentially held steady at 53.7. There was [...]

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