Surveys

CRF's strongest resource is its members. In accordance with its mission, the Foundation routinely seeks input from the membership. Surveys are performed addressing timely and relevant issues, trends and data meaningful to today's credit and receivable professionals.

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CRF's NEW Compensation Tool for Credit and AR Administration

Paying people fairly is good for business. Underpay, and employees will eventually look for a better offer. Overpay, and the payroll budget and profitability will suffer. That's why companies use market data to research the value of their jobs.

CRF, in our continuing effort to provide valuable, trustworthy data to help you create efficiency, has produced a revolutionary platform for the collection and display of compensation data for the field of Business-to-Business Credit and Accounts Receivable employees.

CRF PremierPlus, Premier and Corporate members have full access to the data as provided by the CRF Compensation Calculator all the time.
Others who participate by entering their data in the secure data collection tool will have access to the CRF Compensation Calculator for 30 days as a token of our appreciation for your data contribution.

To participate in our survey, please go here:    (Or cut and paste the following link)    http://www.crfonline.org/MemberServices/StartSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=11
You may use the same link to return to your survey and/or make changes or add a new job.

CRF Benchmarking -

Read more about CRF's Statistical Analysis Survey. View a sample report; and/or fill out the CRF Statistical Benchmarking Survey.

CRF National Summary of Domestic Trade Receivables -

The quarterly The NSDTR, (a.k.a., the DSO Survey) is an study that examines the condition of A/R for U.S. companies. This data has been collected quarterly since 1960.

• View the SUMMARY of the last quarter data.
  
  
• Formulas and definitions used in CRF's NSDTR report. Read about them here.
  
  
• CRF's Key Performance Indicators used in the NSDTR report. Read about them here.
  
• Click here to order back copies of the NSDTR...
                  Just print, fill out and mail or fax to CRF at 410-740-4620.
  
  
• For information on using the NSDTR data to help defend a preference, look here.

CRF Collection Productivity Survey -

• CRF's Last Year's Results for the Collection Productivity Survey
  Over the years CRF has developed and standardized numerous measures dealing with the quality of a businesses accounts receivable. However, collection productivity is the first measure to gauge how productive the effort is given the wherewithal available to perform the collection function. We have defined collection productivity as the measure of the efficiency with which a company's sales are collected, given the resources, human and technological, to perform the task.