Three sets of annual accounts, one application, and the key figures sit in eighteen different places.
The corporate customer submits three years of annual accounts, plus the current management accounts and the trial balance. The analyst copies revenue, EBIT, equity and liabilities year by year into the scoring model's template. If a figure does not match the previous year, the search through the PDF starts all over again.
3financial yearsThree years of annual accounts are on file for the credit application as PDFs.
6key figures per yearRevenue, EBIT, equity, liabilities, cash flow and fixed assets go into the model.
18fields by handSix key figures over three years, each from a different page of the accounts.
5 daysturnaroundBetween receipt of the application and the credit vote, most of the time goes on this collection work.
The analyst starts on the credit vote rather than on typing up figures, and the credit decision comes 40 to 60% faster.
The 40 to 60% acceleration in credit decisions is this agent's headline figure. Six key figures over three financial years are a typical set-up for a corporate application, not a measured value.