Conference justification: some tips: still having a hard time getting authorization to spend your company's money on attending Credit Congress? Time's running out! Here are a few suggestions that might help towards making the case.(front page)

Business Credit, April, 2005

You are an asset to your company. Art assets require maintenance and enhancements. If instead of being a person, you were a piece of machinery, part of the corporate budget would go towards maintaining and upgrading you. Your company should be investing the same percentage of budget towards maintaining and upgrading your skirts, as they do for the rest of the corporate assets.

Recruiting. One of the reasons to send people to conferences is to recruit for open positions. If your team has had trouble fitting Credit Department or related jobs--or knows that new openings are coming up for your group--you can offer to do recruiting work while you're there.

Professional development. If you have career discussions with your manager, tie your career...