The development of credit management

Abstract

The objective of the examination was to create development suggestions to intensify the credit management in the subject enterprise. The target of the theory part was to add understanding concerning the credit management and to define the process of credit management. The target of the empirical part was to get to know the present conditions of the credit management in the subject enterprise as well as to establish the problems in the process. The research methodology is constructive, but there are also characteristics of action research.The target of constructive methodology is to create a solutionmodel for the relevant research problem. The methods used in the empirical part were participating observation, literary material and interviews. Within the results of the research a number of development suggestions for the credit management were presented. It is possible to achieve considerable returns while shortening the chain of cash payments. In the suggestions the importance of cooperation between different functions as well as training were emphasized.