Internal risks of factoring business: identification, cause-effect relationships, accounting and management aspects

Abstract

The article identifies the risks of the economic activity of a factoring company. The identified risks are divided into internal (fraud risk, credit risk, liquidity, nonpayment, staff, supplier's failure to meet the terms of the supply / factoring contract) and external (legal, inflation, currency, interest, industry risks, country risk). The cause-effect relationships of the identified risks have been established. The content of information requests of the leading part of the factoring company, as well as the management subsystems (accounting, economic analysis, control and planning), and the direction of information flows between them (to manage the company's internal risks) is determined. These proposals contribute to the improvement of accounting and analytical support for risk management of the factoring business, the choice of alternative risk management methods, the impact on their possible consequences, minimizing the negative impact of risks on the financial condition of the company, and establishing the effectiveness of factoring operations under risk.

Keywords

• factoring
• factoring business
• risk
• accounting
• internal risks
• external risks
• information needs
• management