Article: Heightened Focus on Receivables Management Having Stabilising Effect on Payment Behaviour During Recession in 2009.

AMSTERDAM, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The recession has resulted in more companies worldwide paying greater attention to their receivables to stabilize their cash flow and balance sheets. The result has been very little deterioration in payment behaviour and in some countries an improvement has been realised.

The "Atradius Payment Practices Barometer", a twice-yearly assessment of corporate payment behaviour surveyed more than 3,500 firms in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong and China. The Atradius ...

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