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7 Strategies to Reduce DSO and Enhance Cash Flow

Gaviti

When accounting departments want a quick evaluation of the health of a business, they often look at their DSO, or days sales outstanding. Traditionally, a low DSO indicates that your company has capital available and is in good financial standing. This includes both current, past and overdue invoices. monthly, quarterly or annually).

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How Healthy Is Your Accounts Receivable?

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Subscribe now Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) From a credit perspective, DSO isn’t our favorite metric, but it is a standard used by accounting and finance professionals to reflect receivables turnover. The problem with DSO is that AR performance can be improving at the same time DSO is rising.

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Evidence It's Time to Adjust Your Collection Practices

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As you review your metrics, here are five signs that there may be a problem with your collection practices: DSO Is Rising: Days Sales Outstanding is the most common metric for measuring accounts receivable (AR) performance. If DSO is rising, you are falling behind. Collections is always playing a bit of catch up to sales.

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6 Cash Flow Performance KPIs Every CFO Needs to Track

Gaviti

Here’s the formula for Average Days Delinquent: ADD = Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) – Best Possible Days Sales Outstanding (BPDSO) Note the role of the DSO metric in this calculation. If you need help with this, check out how to calculate DSO. But note that CEI is more accurate when measuring collections in shorter periods.

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Accounts Receivable Performance Metrics: 5 KPIs You Should Be Tracking

Gaviti

Most Accounts Receivable teams use DSO as the main KPI to measure their performance. By extension, most A/R invoice-to-cash management platforms and teams base their key performance indicators (KPIs) on the measurement of Days Sales Outstanding, or DSO. For example, since each company has different payment terms (e.g,

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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

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KPIs for Accounts Receivables Collections Analysis When reporting on an accounts receivable analysis to the A/R team or other departments within your organization, there are different key performance indicators you can use to measure the health of your accounts receivable. The most common is DSO. Collections analytics.

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Say Goodbye to Manual Work: B2B Accounts Receivable Automation

Grit

Advanced analytics can help businesses track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as days sales outstanding (DSO), collection effectiveness index (CEI), and average payment period.