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Days sales outstanding: effectively managing DSO improves cash flow

TreviPay

An important player in effective cash flow management is days sales outstanding (DSO). DSO is the average number of days a company takes to collect a customer’s payment for a sale. Part of the cash conversion cycle, DSO is also sometimes referred to as “days receivables” or “cash collection period.”.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. This function must collaborate closely with sales, fulfillment, shipping/logistics, and accounting, all of which are integral to converting an order into cash.

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In order for that to happen, everybody needs to be aligned in regard to sales and credit in general and the objectives of the order-to-cash process (O2C) in particular. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you bring in the cash. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect?

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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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TreviPay and Allianz Trade Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance B2B Risk Management and Underwriting Solutions

TreviPay

By utilizing the benefits that trade credit insurance provides, the partnership will enable companies to secure transactions and grow with confidence. Despite this preference, many businesses struggle to offer trade credit to their buyers, due to cash flow strain and concern around growing DSO.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Clear from your AR ledger as many of the clutter transactions as possible. Email us to learn how the experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you clean up your AR Ledger and increase cash flow by improving your Collection Process. During 1995, DSO was reduced by an additional 10 percent, and bad-debt write-offs cut in half.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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. It is important to keep in mind that trade credit — selling on terms in a B2B environment — is greatly affected by the transactional process. Revenue or Profits?