Selling Your Business in London?

Are you in the process of winding down your business? Selling up? Shutting up shop? Shutting down? Closing down? Ceasing trade?

If any of these synonyms are relevant to your situation, then please contact the Credit Protection Association for help and advice.

DO NOT HESITATE. Please call us on 0330 053 9263 to discuss your concerns in confidence.

The Credit Protection Association was founded in 1914 and has helped tens of thousands of UK businesses to reduce bad debt and get paid on time.

Whether you are selling your business to relieve financial distress, or just because you want to retire and fancy a bit of extra cash, CPA can help.

The majority of business owners have suffered from late payment, and here at CPA, we not only recover this debt but also fight for further late payment compensation on our Members’ behalf.

Our head office is in Hammersmith and we have clients throughout London, from Hounslow to Hackney and from Hither Green to Hadley Wood.

We understand the fears that are associated with running a business, and how attractive it may seem to hand the reigns over to someone else. No more early mornings or late night phone calls, and no arguments with clients over late payment, slow payment and non-payments.

What if you could get the money to keep control, as well as cleanse your business of late payers? The Credit Protection Association provides the tools that will keep your business afloat, as well as build it up stronger than ever.

Late payment always lies at the root, and our services have been adapted accordingly.

Late payment has ravaged the high street, leaving retailers to seek solace from Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA) and other insolvency procedures. Contractors were hit hard when construction giant, Carillion, collapsed earlier this year, and its fellow construction companies are still picking up the pieces.

As a result of bad payment practices, businesses of all shapes and sizes have suffered from gaping holes in their cash flow, and have needed a quick injection of cash. CPA recognises this, and we not only provide this financial stability but also make sure it sticks.

Many industry bodies share the opinion that late payment legislation will bring forward the dissolution of Britain’s late payment culture. What they do not know, however, is that such legislation already exists.

According to this legislation, suppliers are owed monetary compensation from their late payers, but very few have taken advantage of it. This is either a result of ignorance or the perceived intimidation of large businesses.

The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 was introduced almost two decades ago to combat the late payment of debt and to promote a culture of prompt payment. Since 1 November 1998, when the legislation came into force, there has been a statutory right to interest for small firms who are owed money by other commercial entities or the public sector.

This key legislation had two purposes. Firstly, to provide compensation to creditors for the costs associated with the late payment of debts. Secondly, to discourage the prevalent culture of late payment.
In brief, for invoices that were not paid on time, the act enables you to claim interest and compensation even if you had no such provision in your contract, and even if the invoice has since been paid.

Each transaction is viewed as an individual debt so effectively the compensation can be calculated and applied to every individual invoice. Under the statute of limitations, you can go back six years. If you have invoiced a customer many times over the last six years then the compensation due could be substantial, potentially amounting to thousands of pounds for many of your customers. If you add up all the customers you have had over the last six years, you can start to imagine the size of the goldmine hidden in your ledgers!

The provisions of the Act are however limited to the commercial supply of goods and services to other businesses and does not apply to goods or services provided to consumers.

The statutory right to claim interest, compensation and the other entitlements are not compulsory and it is for the supplier to decide whether or not to use rights made available. Part of maintaining any successful business is good cashflow management and the credit management facilities here at CPA can help you come to the decision that’s right for you!

Of course, many of our Members have expressed concern for how such confronting legislation could impact customer relations. This agitation has forced many small businesses to resist confrontation with late payers, preferring to continue business with a late payer than no payer at all.

Most often, late payment compensation is claimed by those where the relationship has soured or gone stale, or with former customers with whom you are no longer trading. Either way, the compensation is owed, and therefore should be collected.

Don’t be afraid to ask for what is yours.

Our techniques are conciliatory and polite and we always strive to protect positive customer relationships.

It is crucial to act now before some of them could go out of business – then it could be too late….

Please bear in mind that the statute of limitations blocks invoices claims that are over six years old. So do not delay or your claim could be lost and never be recoverable.

PLEASE ACT NOW. Call us on 0330 053 9263. The collection of compensation is on a no win, no fee basis!

The Credit Protection Association is a credit management company established in 1914. If you supply goods or services on credit then we can help you!

The Credit Protection Association can look at your accounts and quickly and easily produce a report detailing potential claims against current and former clients that you have traded with over the last six years.

CPA can then take assignment of these debts and oversee the complicated and laborious task of producing your claims and collecting the compensation. We will take on all the costs of pursuing the debts plus any necessary legal expenses. You can just sit back and watch the money flow in.

Whether you have been threatened with insolvency, considering retirement and closing up, or if you are just facing a cash flow crunch, we can help. You will have complete control over which claims we pursue and we will only pursue claims against the debtors you select from our credit report.

See our blog on Late Payment Compensation

The only thing that could cost you is DELAY in not acting IMMEDIATELY. Please call us on 0330 053 9263 to have a confidential no-obligation discussion on the Late Payment Compensation you are due. Alternatively, either email us or use our contact form.

Sleep better at night and stop worrying about insolvency .

CPA can help you uncover a source of cash you didn’t even know existed.

Do you realise you could be sitting on a fortune?

Late payments often result in a cash flow crunch and leave SMEs in need of a cash injection.

If you sold B2B on credit then there may be a hidden source of capital you can call on.

If you fancy an bit of extra cash in your business, rather than jumping through hoops with your bank, you could look to uncover the resources from an unexpected source within your own business.

Not many are aware but there could be a hidden fortune within your business, sitting there, just waiting to be uncovered and released.

We can help you uncover the pile of gold, you didn’t even know you were sitting on.

If you trade with other businesses and were often paid late then you could be entitled to significant compensation.

Under little known and under-utilised legislation your business could be due huge amounts in compensation that you didn’t even know about.

Let’s be clear – this is not a way to weaken any customer relationships you value. It is one that identifies who’s been paying late and then recover the potentially significant sums in compensation using Late Payment Legislation from businesses where the relationship has already ended.

You can pick and choose who you want us to follow up – but once we’ve agreed which companies you’d like to pursue compensation from it’s a fast process and there’s no financial outlay to you whatsoever. My team at CPA put its expertise to work to recover the compensation due and fight late payment culture.

That compensation could provide the cash boost your business needed.

But don’t delay, that compensation evaporates if not claimed within six years of the late payment.

CPA is passionate about late payment

The Credit Protection Association has been protecting smaller firms against poor payment practices for over 100 years.

We are extremely passionate about breaking the late payment culture that holds back the UK economy and threatens many SMEs with cash flow difficulties being the single biggest killer of Britain’s small businesses.

If you were regularly paid late we can help. Those former customers used you to boost their own cashflow, regularly paying you late.

As a result you had extra costs, you had the distraction of having to chase payment, you had opportunity costs because your capital was tied up in their late invoices.

Under little used legislation, you are entitled to compensation for those late payments.

Now you can boost your own cash-flow.

CPA can help unearth the those hidden treasures.

We have the technology to reveal the compensation you are due and we have the extensive experience and expertise to then turn those claims into cash.

Yes, CPA can help you boost your business cash-flow.

Don’t let your bankers control you, contact CPA today.

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How can CPA help?

CPA has developed a unique technology to dig into your accounting records and discover the cash injection you are due by means of compensation. The software does all the hard work. Our software interacts over the cloud with over 300 different software packages, working directly with your accounts package, just so long as it’s stored on a computer.

We recognise that most companies do not have the resources to spend time on the identification and calculation of Late Payment Compensation. Our service can produce an Analyses within just a few days with (usually) less than 30 mins of co-operation from our clients. We work directly with over 300 accounting packages but can also work with bespoke accounts packages. Indeed, speed is essential as the oldest invoices may fall foul of the 6-year time limit.

Once the Sales Ledger Analyses is made available to clients, all that is required is that management decide which commercially sensitive ex-customers to remove from the list and return it to us.

CPA then uses its years of collection experience to explain and recover the Late Payment Compensation Claims. Clients do not handle any part of the recovery process as our team will take all communications from the companies against who the claims has been made. Often, it’s simply a case of explaining the legislation, sometimes we have to go all the way and enforce the legislation through the courts.

The result is that we are realising clients’ claims worth tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of pounds which, of course, is pure net profit.  You may also be among the recipients of “hundreds of thousands of pounds” should you elect to take advantage of our services.

We do the work, you receive the cash.

If you have supplied goods and services to businesses on credit and were regularly paid late then you could be due significant sums in late payment compensation.

We are talking to companies and unearthing claims in the hundreds of thousands from former business customers who paid them late. Large business customers who abused their power to inflict unfair and sometimes illegal payment practices.

We are helping business owners  who are looking to boost the returns from their business before they retire. We are helping businesses who have lost major clients after years of loyal service to get properly compensated for systematic late payment. We are helping companies that were looking to close down, who looked insolvent and finding that cash injection they need to avoid insolvency.

Those former clients who regularly paid you late can finally be made to pay.

Ready to speak to an advisor?

The Credit Protection Association is a credit management company established in 1914. If you supply goods or services on credit then we can help you!

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