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Username: Fluffy

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Asked to: Heng Kim

Date Created: 04 Nov 2015
Category 28
Tag Financial
Question What does days sales outstanding mean?
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Hi Fluffy,

A measure of the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. DSO is often determined on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis and can be calculated by dividing the amount of accounts receivable during a given period by the total value of credit sales during the same period, and multiplying the result by the number of days in the period measured.

A low DSO value means that it takes a company fewer days to collect its accounts receivable. A high DSO number shows that a company is selling its product to customers on credit and taking longer to collect money.

Days sales outstanding is also often referred to as “days receivables” and is an element of the cash conversion cycle.

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