Central West businesses are lining up to attend a Charles Sturt University (CSU) Debt Collection workshop next week which will save them time and money when it comes to dealing with bad debts. The workshop will offer advice on debt collection options and procedures involved; effective systems to minimise and prevent bad debts in your business and, as a last resort, ,steps in debt collection which involve the court. The course has been developed especially with local businesses in mind by Antony Smith, an Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Commerce at CSU Orange Campus. “I’ve discovered in my time that people in small businesses don’t really understand the debt collection process so they tend to put things off as long as they can, hoping they won’t have to do anything about it,” Mr Smith says. “Debt is made a lot worse by the passage of time so we felt it was important to run a short course on how to manage debt collection.” There are two workshops next week at CSU Orange Campus on Tuesday June 27 and Thursday June 29 from 6pm to 8pm and one on Saturday, July 1 from 9am to 1pm. The cost of the workshop is $80. Places are limited, for more information contact the program coordinator on 02 6365 7813 or go to the CSU Community Education site.