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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The primary way most companies measure AR performance involves looking at the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) metric. Accelerating sales can increase DSO, but most often the cause is problems in the order-to-cash (O2C) pipeline affecting collections. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication.

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Tackling Customers that Always Pay Late

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager have default risk probabilities and other financial benchmarks for analyzing your AR portfolio and revealing actionable credit & collection insights. A good measure of how you are doing is your DSO (Days Sales Outstanding). Do you need help improving cash flow?

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Is Your Company Ready for a Downturn in the Economy?

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Since then, we’ve weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, which many experts predicted would lead to a wave of defaults and business closures. Does my team have the expertise and experience to keep us ahead of potential default situations? During that period, the U.S. economy shed over 8.7

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The sales team learned very quickly that eliminating the friction from the billing and payment processes facilitated earlier customer payments, hence larger commissions. 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.

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Is It Too Late to Achieve Your End-of-Year DSO Goals?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Chances are, there is a lot that needs to be done in terms of accounts receivable (AR) management between now and December 31st, especially if you are short of your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) goals. For a masterclass on Credit Department Digital Transformation , join David Schmidt online December 3, 2024, at 1:30 PM EDT.

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Are Your Collection Efforts Getting the Priority They Deserve?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

billion in annual sales was dissatisfied with the management of its Accounts Receivable (AR). Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) was at 63 days on predominantly Net 30 day terms. Collection Prioritization Drives Performance Improvement A medical device manufacturer with $1.6

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11 Signs Your AR Portfolio May Be at Risk

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Rising Days Sales Outstanding DSO measures the average number of days it takes to collect payment after a sale. Deteriorating Customer Relationships Deteriorating relationships with customers may lead to delayed payments or defaults, as trust and communication break down.

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