SEE YOURSELF AS OTHERS DO

Check your D&B Profile at no charge

Have a unique insight into your own business, the way your creditors, potential business partners, bankers and overseas organisations see you. To check your current Profile, complete the D&B Profile form and return to D&B Information Resources with your most recent financial statements. On receipt of your completed profile, our customer service centre will email your current Profile.

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Why update?

Establish a full Credit Profile

Accurately portray your company by establishing a full credit profile with D&B. Many companies will check your D&B report before making critical decisions about your business. An accurate and full D&B business file can help your business:

• Get better interest rates and credit terms from banks and lenders
• Increase your likelihood of buying on credit from other businesses
• Make it easy for potential business partners to assess the risk of doing business with you

Not having a credit profile with D&B or having an incomplete file can make your company look unstable or unhealthy when it may be financially sound. This can cost you money…

Monitor your D&B Credit Profile

Monitor your D&B credit profile so you can use it to your advantage. Do you know what’s in your credit file? Your D&B ratings and scores are used to determine:

• Interest rates when you apply for a loan
• Premiums for insurance
• If you are stable enough to be awarded work from a potential customer
• If you can buy supplies on credit or if you must pay cash on delivery

It’s critical that you understand what’s in your credit profile and monitor it for accuracy and changes.

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Improve your standing by being D&B listed

Companies today, realise that it is more important than ever before to have as much up-front information as possible about a company before engaging in business transactions with them.

D&B, the world’s leading provider of business-to-business information, including credit reporting, manages a database of over 95 million companies from which we provide thousands of companies daily with the information necessary to drive profitable decisions.

Business decisions that not only involve credit but also potential business partners and extended business relationships.

We tap more sources from around the world than any other business information provider and our extensive quality processes help ensure timeliness, accuracy, validity and security.

At D&B we are continually monitoring our performance to ensure that our data sources are diverse and accurate enough to provide a solid basis; that our databases are current and continually improving; and, above all, that our value-added data provides a true picture of your firm’s position and is most predictive and insightful for your potential business partners.

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Your Financial Information

Accurately portray your company by establishing a full credit profile with D&B.

In the interest of D&B conveying the most accurate information to your potential customers, suppliers, lenders and business partners it is imperative that the currency of your financial information is maintained within the D&B database.

A comprehensive profile on your firm not only assists with credit application processing and the development of new business relationships, but also the enhancement of your firm’s standing within your industry.

An incomplete or outdated D&B Profile can make your company look unstable or unhealthy when it may be financially sound.

Your Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash Flow Statement for the most recent financial year are a major component in assigning a credit score and your assistance in providing this information will allow D&B to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information of your D&B profile.

In order to update and/or complete your profile we would like to obtain from you a copy of your company’s most recent financial statements.

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How do I update my D&B Profile

Required documents

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