Factoring agreements involve selling unpaid invoices to a third party at a discount rate. Non-recourse factoring provides protection against unpaid invoices, but factoring fees may be higher than recourse factoring contracts.
Primary risks in invoice factoring include potential client defaults, impacting the factor's recovery; high costs due to fees and interest rates; customer relationships strain from third-party involvement; and hidden fees or contractual obligations.
For example, if the multiplication between the factors (x+2) and (x+3) results in the expression x 2 + 5 x + 6 , then this resulting expression can be factored back as ( x + 2 ) ( x + 3 ) . In general, factoring in an expression requires trial and error.
The factoring agreement will also include representations that each factored account is bona fide and represents indebtedness incurred by the customer for goods actually sold and delivered to the customer; that there are no setoffs, offsets, or counterclaims against the account; that the account does not represent a ...
A factoring relationship involves three parties: (i) a buyer, who is a person or a commercial enterprise to whom the services are supplied on credit, (ii) a seller, who is a commercial enterprise which supplies the services on credit and avails the factoring arrangements, and (iii) a factor, which is a financial ...