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

Gaviti

Two critical key performance indicators (KPIs) that help your accounts receivable team optimize collections are receivables turnover and days sales outstanding (DSO). Days Sales Outstanding vs. Accounts Receivables Turnover Receivables turnover and days sales outstanding work in tandem.

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Tackling Customers that Always Pay Late

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Those who are financially weak (high credit risk), in addition to essentially turning down the faucet for your cash inflow, present a higher risk of never paying for everything they owe. A good measure of how you are doing is your DSO (Days Sales Outstanding).

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Inefficient Cash Flow Management : Delays in credit approvals or ineffective collection efforts can lead to an increase in DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), impacting working capital and liquidity. Leverage Technology: Utilize technology to track progress, enhance transparency, and streamline O2C processes.

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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. Rising Days Sales Outstanding Slow payment collections can be caused by inefficient invoicing processes, poor credit policies, inadequate collection efforts, or the financial distress of customers.

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Business and Digital Trends in the Chemical Industry: Finance

SAP Credit Management

SAP and Taulia solutions can help companies in the chemical and life science industry to achieve improvements in several areas, including those measured by the following three parameters: days sales outstanding (DSO), days payable outstanding (DPO), and days inventory outstanding (DIO).

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Help business clients use technology to improve cash flow

Abrigo

Dashboards : Software that creates dashboards can help monitor changes in Days Sales Outstanding, identify the biggest credit risks and the receivables with balances over 75 days past due, flag increases in inventory days. Other digital payment options : Amazon Payments, PayPal, Apple Pay. . •