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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. It’s a comparison of how much you were owed at the beginning of the period versus how much you actually collected during that same period.

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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. Similar to DSO, this cash application KPI offers a broad measure of how effective your collection efforts are. (DSO

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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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5 Strategies for Cash Flow Optimization in the Transportation and Logistics Industry

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Streamline disputes and deductions Disputes can cause a hit to your cash flow while they wait to be resolved, a process usually managed by human A/R teams with many steps along the way that are all prone to human error.

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5 Strategies for Cash Flow Optimization in the Transportation and Logistics Industry

Gaviti

Streamline disputes and deductions Disputes can cause a hit to your cash flow while they wait to be resolved, a process usually managed by human A/R teams with many steps along the way that are all prone to human error.

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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

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Are you able to collect invoices on all of the revenue your business generates? How quickly are customers paying their invoices? What are the average days sales outstanding? How much cash is the company gaining or losing? A/R turnover ratio: This measures how quickly you collect receivables.