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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. It is often assessed only annually.

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What to Look For When Purchasing an Accounts Receivable Software

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Advanced accounts receivables solutions offer autonomous invoice-to-cash platforms that include artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities as sanity checks for current decisions while at the same time offer suggestions to proactively optimize results. improve emails, workflows, suggest credit limits, etc). Speak to a specialist today!

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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). Step 1: Sales Forecast The first step to predicting your accounts receivable is to determine a sales forecast.

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Accounts Receivable Performance Metrics: 5 KPIs You Should Be Tracking

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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. Most Accounts Receivable teams use DSO as the main KPI to measure their performance.

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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. However, days sales outstanding are subject to a range of factors and targets should always be based on the wider context of the business and industry.

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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.

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New A/R Collections KPI Dashboard Features January 2023

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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. ADD (Average Days Delinquent) Next, we have the ADD (Average Days Delinquent) metric.