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The AIFUL Group is working to diversify its financial businesses and operates individual and small business loan businesses, credit card business, credit guarantee business, and overseas business. Thus, the Group seeks to diversify business risks as well as its revenue sources. With regard to costs, it strives to improve business efficiency by introducing BPR and RPA.
Operating
revenue
Income from interest on operating loans
Interest income gained from loan businesses in and outside Japan
Revenue from credit card
Fee income from the credit card business
Revenue from credit guarantee
Fee income from the credit guarantee business
Other revenue
Includes recoveries of written off claims, which are revenues gained from written off claims, and collection from purchased receivables, which are revenues from the servicer business.
Operating
expenses
Financial expenses
The funds lent to customers are financed through borrowings from banks and other financial institutions and issuance of bonds. Financial expenses are interest payment on the financed funds.
Provision of allowance for doubtful accounts
Bad debt is written off when collection of receivables is deemed impossible. Allowance for doubtful accounts is provided for against losses from future bad debt. Additional allowances are provided for after writing off bad debt using the allowance for doubtful accounts and calculating the necessary allowance to prepare for future bad debt.
Expenses on interest repayment
Provision for loss on interest payment has been provided for to prepare for future interest repayments due to the rapid increase in interest repayment claims following the Supreme Court decision in January 2006. The claims are on a decreasing trend, dropping to more than 90% of the peak in monthly basis in recent years.
Other operating expenses
These are general and administrative expenses, which include personnel expenses, advertising expenses, promotion expenses, commission expenses, and depreciation.
