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7 Strategies to Reduce DSO and Enhance Cash Flow

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Understanding Days Sales Outstanding Days Sales Outstanding, or DSO , is the average number of days it takes a company to collect revenue from an invoice. This includes both current, past and overdue invoices. Typically, a high DSO indicates that a company is having challenges collecting on invoices from its customers.

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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

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Are you offering enough or too much credit to customers? Are you able to collect invoices on all of the revenue your business generates? How quickly are customers paying their invoices? How much cash is the company gaining or losing? Are there invoice processing delays? If so, what can they be attributed to?

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The Importance of the Accounts Receivable Aging Report

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As an assessment and diagnostic tool, it’s hard to overstate the importance of your company’s accounts receivable (AR) collections aging report. This report is a valuable tactic to stay on top of cash flow and improve short-term collections forecasting. It also identifies cash flow issues before they become problems.