i am sure, like me, many out there offer 30 day terms for payment....that says that in a perfect world your accts rec would always be 8.3% of sales... we never got it that low but over years we would seem to make out ok carrying 11 to 12% in money owed....that percentage seems to just keep rising...after 3rd quarter (ended yesterday) i am carrying 19.3% in monies on the street...thus becoming the "BANK" for my customers...do my percentages seem out of line or is it the bad times that have befallen all of us...or am i just whining considering bad debt has always hovered around zero????