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To provide any commercial or non-profit entity receiving
revenues or donations with beneficial
services to accelerate their cash flow, save staff time and/or the
need to hire additional
personnel, automate these collections, and offer other proprietary
technology that all serve to
improve the entitys bottom-line and efficiency, and endear
the enterprise to its customers.
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McCurdy Cash Consultants, Inc. (MCC),
was founded in June of 2000, on the heels of months to years of research
and study in these fields. MCC's founding was compounded by its founder's
previous work experience in banking, investments, and a myriad of
corporate work activities and relationships, and, his love and passion
for contributing to others through his church, alma maters, his children's
schools, specific charities, and other community or service pursuits.
From this background, MCC recognizes well how vital a company or charitable
concern's cash flow is to its success and life. Accordingly, MCC's
ability to accelerate cash flows into businesses and other enterprises
while also saving those entities 10-50% in their invoicing or other
revenue collection activities, is as much a WIN/WIN business objective
as its founder's continuing support to schools, churches, and charities
in our world community and the related commendations for international
milestones accomplished in these areas of giving. In all products
and services offered, MCC is committed, at minimum, to assisting any
and all sources we serve, and as such, we look to all our "customers"
as "partners" towards mutual success in every way reasonably
possible.
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general areas: Revenue or Donation Collection
Products and Services, and Computer and Related System Enhancements.
In this first area, we deal in checks and credit cards and their
supportive services. Our checks are always electronic, as opposed
to traditional paper checks, and they serve to benefit both
the commercial entity offering them to its customers as well
as being a convenience to those customers. As electronic checks,
they settle - free and clear - into your bank in no more than
48 hours. As a further safeguard, we offer several options like
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verification services that identify
bad check writers immediately from our nation's three databases compiling
such information. We also offer FREE check recovery
for NSF checks that is statistically successful 70-80% of the time
versus 45% for traditional collection services, and are even
developing a guaranteed check recovery service.
MCC feels it's important for all sources accepting checks or credit
cards to know the differences in penalties for the fraudulent use
of these two payment instruments. For the writer of fraudulent checks,
the maximum penalty is a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison
for each incident; for the fraudulent credit card user, the maximum
penalty is a $1000 fine.
Industry analysts agree that 50% of Americans do not have a credit
card or have used up the limits on their credit cards, and as such,
are restricted to purchases by cash or their checking account only.
Compound this finding with the desire of American consumers and these
same industry sources also believe, if given the choice, that three
out of four Americans would use their checking account over a credit
card. In 1999, over 68 billion checks were written in this country
versus 13.4 billion credit card transactions, and that number is growing.
As shocking as it may seem to many, American
businesses and consumers still prefer using checks to credit cards.
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As concerns MCC's electronic check,
and the geometric growth in its usage and acceptance, when compared
to traditional paper checks, Chairman Spencer Bachus at the
Domestic and International Monetary Policy Subcommittee Hearing
on The Future of Electronic Payments, said, "Electronic
transactions could, collectively, save the American consumer
up to $51 billion each year." |
MCC is also concerned with saving each "partner" staff time
and other invoicing costs through its technological service enhancements
and select revenue or donation collection services. One of the compelling
arguments behind MCC's efforts in this area comes from a study by
the Harvard Business School, whose results were later adopted by the
Small Business Administration. In this study, it was determined that
the average cost of producing a single invoice
is $4.17, after accounting for stationary and/or the printed
invoice, envelopes, postage, and the staff costs in producing the
invoice to mail, in receiving the return invoice and depositing the
check, and in making follow-up calls when invoices are not paid on
time or when there are NSF checks.
Finally, MCC takes particular pride and satisfaction in the fact that
many of its services also benefit charities, educational institutions,
and other similar organizations. For just one example, in a 10-year
study, the "Non-Profit Times" concluded statistically that
it takes ten times as many donors who are on
a monthly reminder (invoice, notice, etc) to equal the same amount
of money as those on an automatic draft.
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