There has been a new focus of some businesses who have wanted to make sure that the company's bottom line continues to grow in offering extensions of credit and who have started to wait much longer on payments through construction receivables so as to make sure that business partners who are struggling to stay afloat in a difficult economic era are able to do so through lenient payment practices. Expanding networks of available business partners, especially in those industries which require many disciplines for completion and operation, has become more important than actually collecting payments.