THE Guide to Selecting an Outsource Field Examination Firm

Shhhhhh, it’s a secret… We Get This Question A Lot: NOTE:  We’re a software and training company, not an accounting firm or field examination provider.  I started in ABL in 1985 and have over 19 years of hands-on field exam experience. It seems like I can guess the question when someone that I don’t know … Read more

Training Time for Asset Based Lending

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Training Course Fantasy: In a perfect world, you could get together with some of the best people in the business and they would all happen to be great teachers and they would all possess excellent course development skills  and they would all have keen presentation development skills too. In a perfect world, the length of … Read more

The Lance Armstrong Story and How it Relates to Borrower Fraud

For those of you that have been through a fraud (frauds), the characteristics of Lance Armstrong are parallel to some of the fraudulent characters that I have met, sent to jail and had the opportunity to meet over the years. Let’s take a look at some of these human characteristics and perhaps reflect on a … Read more

Have You Hugged Your Receivable Aging Lately?

Receivable Ledgers BBC

Borrowers put all sorts of things in their agings. Overpayments, invoices, finance charges, debit memos, adjustments, freight adjustments, tax adjustments, Etc.  All of that works great, it sits there and it looks to be a mess at times, but at least it is all there. But are the offsets all there? Like a Teenager: If … Read more

ABL-Help Software Updated 1998 to NOW… Because Knowledge is Power!

ABL-Help

In The Beginning: What started as a glossary of definitions sometime in 1998  for my students, quickly expanded.  After 6 months of messing around with HLP file generators that used RTF documents, the first release came out in December of 1998.  It started with about 450 glossary words and about 42 ineligible collateral items for … Read more

Welcome to ABLTrain… “What a long strange trip it’s been”

ABLTrain On-Line Training Seminars for Asset Based Lending Education

The web-based asset based lending training seminar project started out perhaps 10 years ago with a software package named Digital Trainer and that product was just not capable of delivering reliable on-line training.  But our affiliation with Team Adobe let us keep on the developers to get the features that we needed to make this possible and so, about 7 … Read more