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7 Strategies to Reduce DSO and Enhance Cash Flow

Gaviti

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. It has $1 million in outstanding receivables but total sales of $1.5

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6 Cash Flow Performance KPIs Every CFO Needs to Track

Gaviti

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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Accounts Receivable Performance Metrics: 5 KPIs You Should Be Tracking

Gaviti

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. For example, since each company has different payment terms (e.g,

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Evidence It's Time to Adjust Your Collection Practices

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As you review your metrics, here are five signs that there may be a problem with your collection practices: DSO Is Rising: Days Sales Outstanding is the most common metric for measuring accounts receivable (AR) performance. If DSO is rising, you are falling behind. Collections is always playing a bit of catch up to sales.

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