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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The bottom line was a 13 percent reduction in Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) over a 6 month period in conjunction with invoice accuracy rising above 90 percent. A chemical distributor did just this by providing their Salesforce with a dashboard to monitor each region’s receivables portfolio. Revenue or Profits?

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“Must Have” Metrics for Receivables Management

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Monthly: The Three Weekly Metrics listed above Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) – This metric expresses the level of AR as the number of days of sales that comprise your AR total. For example, if you sell on Net 30 day credit terms, and all your invoices were paid on the due date, your DSO would be 30 days.

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Understanding DSO Mean

Emagia

DSO Mean DSO, or Days Sales Outstanding, is a key financial metric that measures the average number of days it takes for a company to collect payment after a sale. Understanding DSO mean is essential for managing cash flow effectively. Businesses need to analyze these factors to optimize their DSO.

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New A/R Collections KPI Dashboard Features January 2023

Gaviti

That’s why we are excited to announce the addition of several new metrics to the collections dashboard. In this post we will go in depth into all the additions to our A/R collections dashboard BPDSO (Best Possible Days Sales Outstanding) First up is the BPDSO (Best Possible Days Sales Outstanding) metric.

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Collections Dashboard: Why Is It an Essential Growth Tool?

Gaviti

It also gives companies the ability to move away from manual tracking in spreadsheets, to a real-time dashboard, which saves time and gives a full and reliable visualization of the current state of collections. So, how can using a collection dashboard help, and why is it so indispensable as a growth tool? Days Sales Outstanding.

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Gaviti New Features – DSO benchmark, A/R Teams, Partial Payments, Tagging and more.

Gaviti

With this update, we’ve added new insights, enhanced the AR team screen, added partial payment functionality, and introduced a host of new metrics to the dashboard. Get valuable DSO comparison data with – Insights. First, we’ve added the BPDSO (Best Possible Days Sales Outstanding) metric to the dashboard.

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CEO and CFO, do you know your DSO?

Onguard

CFOs and CEOs, are you familiar with DSO? While many businesses focus on improving their DPO (supplier side) and DOI (inventory holding) metrics to enhance their cash flow, the real impact can be found by examining your customer base and their payment habits, which is reflected in the DSO metric. How do you calculate DSO?

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