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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. Traditionally, a low DSO indicates that your company has capital available and is in good financial standing. This includes both current, past and overdue invoices.

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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. Many companies evaluate these two KPIs in tandem because it offers a broader understanding of how long it takes to convert invoices to cash.

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Accounts Receivable Performance Metrics: 5 KPIs You Should Be Tracking

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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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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

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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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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

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KPIs for Accounts Receivables Collections Analysis When reporting on an accounts receivable analysis to the A/R team or other departments within your organization, there are different key performance indicators you can use to measure the health of your accounts receivable. The most common is DSO. Collections analytics.