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How many days does your cash sit with customers?

Enter your credit sales, what customers owe you, what you owe suppliers and your stock. See your debtor days, your cash cycle and how much cash comes back if customers pay 10, 15 or 30 days sooner.

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Your numbers

Rough numbers are fine. Take them from your balance sheet, ledger or outstanding report.

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Sales on credit only. Leave out cash sales.

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Debtor days (DSO)

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–cash conversion cycle
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–inventory days
–creditor days (DPO)

Cash freed if customers pay sooner

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How this works
  1. Debtor days (DSO) = what customers owe you today ÷ credit sales per day (annual credit sales ÷ 365). It is how many days of sales are sitting with customers.
  2. Creditor days (DPO) = what you owe suppliers ÷ purchases per day, and inventory days = stock value ÷ purchases per day. Purchases stand in for the cost of what you sell, so treat these two as rough for a manufacturer.
  3. Cash conversion cycle = debtor days + inventory days − creditor days: roughly how many days your own money is tied up between paying for goods and getting paid for them.
  4. "Cash freed" = credit sales per day × the days saved, never more than what customers owe today. Interest uses the yearly rate you enter. The verdicts are rules of thumb, not benchmarks for your industry.
Questions

Frequently asked

It depends on your industry and the credit terms you give. The first check is simple: are your debtor days close to the credit days you agreed with customers? If you give 30 days and DSO is 70, about 40 days of sales are late.

Credit sales. Cash sales are paid on the spot, so including them makes your debtor days look better than they are. If almost everything is on credit, total sales is close enough.

It is the number of days your business has to fund on its own, through your capital or a loan. A shorter cycle means the same sales need less borrowed money.

Agree credit days in writing, send reminders before the due date, follow up on a fixed weekly routine, and pause new credit to customers who are far behind. The free payment reminder tool has the messages.

No. The calculation happens on this page. Numbers are saved only if you send the result to yourself.