Trends Impacting Every Business | Forbes.com

You think good accounting isn’t a big factor in getting business credit?  Consider this tidbit from Intuit’s CEO Brad Smith, from a recent article on Forbes.com:

Two-thirds of Intuit’s QuickBooks customers were declined a loan due to poor FICO scores and other credit measurements. In the Loan Finder trial, a business could opt-in to allow banks to use QuickBooks data to evaluate if a prospect was a credit risk. As a result of this additional data, the banks provided several hundred new loans with an average of $10 million dollars.

Accounting professionals… isn’t this something you could be helping your clients with?

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