This situation is serious in itself, but it is surely made worse by the fact that the finance houses are unwilling to offer financial support to firms, so any small company is facing a double whammy on the revenue front of bills not being paid and financial support facilities being denied. The first step for such a small company would be to communicate with the large company and learn what is going on. If they get a neutral to negative reply then it could well be that the customer, perhaps a large company in this case, is protecting their own revenue situation. In these situations the minds of the small company could turn to Debt Collection paths to try and force the issue. If such a small company is facing a definite problem with revenue then they could not be able to lay out the fees charged by lawyers or Debt Collection firm, which are likely to be in the range of 10% of the invoice value plus expenses. Contrast this with