FACTORING IN A CONTINUING AGREEMENT - It is an arrangement where a financing entity purchases all of the accounts receivable of a certain entity.
Factoring without recourse means that the risk of accounts receivable being uncollectible transfers from the buyer to the seller. Basically, if an accounts receivable cannot be collected, the seller does not have to reimburse the buyer like they would if the factoring was “with recourse”.
How to Record Invoice Factoring Transactions With Recourse Record a credit in accounts receivable for the sold invoice in the amount of $375,000. In the recourse liability column, record a credit after estimating the bad debts and any other possible losses ($750).
When a company factors receivables it means that they sell them to another party. If the transaction is without recourse that means the buyer takes on all the risk of credit losses. The seller of the accounts receivable does not bear any risk after the sale is complete.
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 ...
The agreement with non-recourse factoring is that, within certain conditions, if the payments are late or unpaid then the factor absorbs the costs, the company does not have to worry about debt created by unpaid invoices.