At present the creation and development of financial transactions such as factoring procedures has greatly facilitated the procurement of capital as a company, which is vital for the proper conduct thereof.
Factoring is a contract or by which it gains the ability to more easily obtain capital or accounts receivable portfolio, as this contract made with an entity of factoring (factoring) is responsible for providing the service provider's opportunity to retake the capital that has been given credit, it can be interpreted as capital goods or service.
Factoring can be taken as a financial move by which an organization specializing in the collection of receivables, helps businesses or lenders of funds, the rapid timing of the payment of the same, thereby increasing cash flow and capital on optimal continue with the business. The companies or entities engaged in factoring directly responsible and call it that, for the purchase of accounts receivable from any company with the firm intention that by charging the same from earning a significant percentage (commission) by the providing this service.
Today the use of factoring is an important tool used by countless companies, as this has advantages of great benefit to continue the success of a company, some of these advantages are:
• Optimize cash flow.
• Increasing the liquidity of the company.
• Decrease in accounts receivable and financial burden.
• Increase the capacity credit.
• Streamline administrative tasks.
• Provide greater availability of funds in a short time.
• Contribute to improve the return on assets.
• Provide an important source of income and recurrent resourcing.
Although there are many more advantages that has factoring, already mentioned are those that can observe a larger scale. However it is important to note that although there are a greater number of advantages, there are certain factors (no handicaps) that is highly recommended to keep in mind some of them as:
• It is important to note that the cost can have the use of factoring, can be greater than when using other methods, that's because the commission rate sought by these bodies providing this service are usually somewhat higher.
• An important factor before using factoring, is that these entities do not take accounts receivable in excess of 180 days of cancellation, making this activity something exclusive short-term accounts.
• Organizations that specialize in factoring usually decide to customers (companies) are willing to accept in this process and in turn decide which documents to accept the same.
In short, factoring is an important tool that can be very useful for increasing the economic liquidity of a company, thanks to the great advantages that this activity provides, however it is very important to note that this procedure in turn can be somewhat expensive.