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Receivables Turnover vs. Days Sales Outstanding (DSO): What’s the Difference?

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Two critical key performance indicators (KPIs) that help your accounts receivable team optimize collections are receivables turnover and days sales outstanding (DSO). These two KPIs aren’t perfect, but they inform decisions that ultimately determine how much cash you have available.

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7 Strategies to Reduce DSO and Enhance Cash Flow

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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.

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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

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Are you able to collect invoices on all of the revenue your business generates? How quickly are customers paying their invoices? What are the average days sales outstanding? How much cash is the company gaining or losing? The most common is DSO. This measures how quickly customers pay their invoices.

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

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Get valuable DSO comparison data with – Insights. The Insights section provides valuable information on DSO (days sales outstanding) and allows users to compare their collections team’s performance to similar companies. Next, we’ve added the ADD (Average Days Delinquent) metric to the dashboard.

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Collections Forecasting – Key Things to Watch

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Forecasting Accounts Receivable Collections Using DSO The easiest and most accurate way to forecast your accounts receivable is using days sales outstanding (DSO). Here are the steps to calculate an accounts payable projection using DSO. And it’s crucial to keep those possibilities in mind.

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Accounts Receivable Performance Metrics: 5 KPIs You Should Be Tracking

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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.

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6 Cash Flow Performance KPIs Every CFO Needs to Track

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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.