Commercial Investigation Association of America (CIAA)

The Commercial Investigation Association of America is a membership-based organization that certifies commercial debt collectors, in-house collection departments, and commercial investigators.

Definition of
COMMERCIAL INVESTIGATION

A deductive Analysis of the nature, history, and scope of a financial transaction between two businesses.

MissionThe mission of CIAA is to properly train, educate, and certify individuals and businesses in the science of commercial investigation. and PurposeThe purpose of CIAA is to train individuals and businesses in the application of a proprietary forensic technique which is proven to increase the likelihood of successful collections. of CIAA

Why Certify?

The reality of bad debt is that accounts owed for one year or more are only 10% collectible using standard collection methods!

$1 to 10 cents!

Using our proprietary technique the amount of collectible cases jumps to 41%!

$1 to 41 cents!

When our proprietary method is properly applied the result is
MORE collectible cases.

Seminars

CIAA conducts seminars and workshops as part of the certification process.

Titles of Seminars

  • Commercial Investigations I
  • Forensic Techniques of Collection
  • Corporate Structure Analysis
  • Advanced Skip Tracing
  • Commercial Investigations II
  • Vocabulary of Commercial Investigations