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5 Accounts Receivable Collection Mistakes You Should Avoid

Gaviti

Leverage data-driven decision-making to optimize collections strategies, reduce DSO, and improve cash flow. Disputes and deduction. Categorize deductions to gain insight into recurring issues, identify root causes, and take proactive measures to minimize future deductions. Customer invoice distribution.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

There was a lot of gnashing of teeth on the part of the sales team at the beginning, but invoice accuracy improved in each subsequent month as sales began transmitting accurate pricing and terms to order processing, thereby reducing downstream disputes and payment deductions.

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How CFOs Can Benefit from Emagia Autonomous Finance Platform for Accounts Receivable Automation

Emagia

Autonomous Finance Capabilities: Enables intelligent self-driving end-to-end processes for accounts receivable operations including credit management, billing, invoicing, collections, deductions, cash application, cash flow forecasting and treasury management.

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Four Goals Guaranteed to Improve Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As part of that budget, you have likely made some accommodation for your accounts receivable (AR), probably in the form of a Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) objective based on past performance. Maybe you have factored in an incremental improvement in DSO, but how much thought have you given to how you are going to meet that budgeted goal?

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How Healthy Is Your Accounts Receivable?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Subscribe now Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) From a credit perspective, DSO isn’t our favorite metric, but it is a standard used by accounting and finance professionals to reflect receivables turnover. The problem with DSO is that AR performance can be improving at the same time DSO is rising.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Consequently, Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) increased by almost 50 percent with customer delinquency deteriorating so much that this supplier’s borrowing capacity under its asset-based credit facility was severely restricted. Investigating and resolving deductions alone is much too costly.

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Which Companies Benefit from Emagia’s Autonomous Finance Solutions for Account Receivables

Emagia

Managing credit approvals, invoicing, collections, and deductions manually can be overwhelming, error-prone, and inefficient. Emagia automates invoicing and deduction management, ensuring faster cash realization. Advanced analytics enable organizations to reduce DSO, identify late-payment trends, and improve customer payment behaviors.