5 Steps to Measuring Your Vendor's Financial Health

Podcast Transcript

Hi – my name is Branan  with Venminder.

In this 90-second podcast, you’re going to learn how to measure your vendor’s financial health.

A team of qualified certified public accountants at Venminder evaluate vendor financial health every day for our clients.

We have 5 steps. Let’s get started:

Step 1: Determine if the company is a public or private entity and how you’ll obtain the financials.  

Step 2: Next, once you’ve gathered the document, it’s time to review the financial statement. Remember these 3 key areas to watch for:

• Risk factors,
• Active legal proceedings and lawsuits
• And the auditor’s opinion

Step 3: Ask yourself the following:

• Do they have the revenue or have sufficient capital to support their ongoing operations?
• What’s the company’s net worth?
• Can they sustain their operations at the current cash level and over the course of the next year?
• What’s their debt-to-worth?

Step 4: Fourth, have a qualified subject matter expert, like a CPA, draft your comprehensive analysis. 

Last, but certainly not least, begin to escalate or monitor accordingly.

Remember, thoroughly evaluating a vendor’s performance is more than just about the numbers. It can help you discover weak financials and weak financials can indicate a number of things like litigation, bad press and a decline in service levels, to name a few.

I hope you found this podcast helpful.

Thanks for tuning in; catch you next time!