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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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Gaviti New Features – DSO benchmark, A/R Teams, Partial Payments, Tagging and more.

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Get valuable DSO comparison data with – Insights. The Insights section provides valuable information on DSO (days sales outstanding) and allows users to compare their collections team’s performance to similar companies. Next, we’ve added the ADD (Average Days Delinquent) metric to the dashboard.

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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.

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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. If you need help with this, check out how to calculate DSO.

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Top 6 Dunning Workflow Best Practices

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Regardless of the details of how you set up your dunning workflow, however, you’ll know it’s successful when DSO improves. The Dunning Notice: The Foundation of any Dunning Workflow A dunning notice , or dunning letter, is a document sent to customers at various stages in the dunning process to collect unpaid invoices.

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How To Calculate Accounts Receivable Collection Period

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Once an invoice hits accounts receivable (A/R), it enters what’s called the average collection period. Other common names include “days sales in accounts receivable,” “average receivables collection period,” or “ days sales outstanding (DSO).” What is an Optimal Average Collection Period?

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Embracing RPA in Accounts Receivable: A Strategic Approach

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For example, it can offer different payment options (ACH and options for receiving invoices (email, online portals, etc). This helps to speed up the entire invoice-to-cash cycle, reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and improving cash flow. It costs less. Dispute resolution.

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