Days sales analysis

Sage Accounts calculates the Company’s Days Sales Outstanding value by taking the total outstanding balance from all customers and calculating how many days' worth of sales this value represents. This shows how long, on average, your customers take to pay their invoices. Read more

If this value rises month by month, your business is taking longer to collect its debts and should take action to correct this. If the value falls month by month, your company's collection processes are improving, or your customers are becoming better at paying on time.

This is your company’s default payment terms in days. This is the number of days that you usually give your customers to pay their invoices.

You should use this value as a guide when analysing your days sales outstanding information.

If the Company’s Days Sales Outstanding value is more than twice the Default Payment Terms, then your company may not be collecting its debts effectively. You may want to review your collection processes.

This shows, on average, how many days overdue your customer balances are at this point in time.

Sage Accounts takes the total of the overdue balances for all customers and calculates how many days' worth of sales this value represents.

If this value is very low, customers may either be very good payers or their payment terms may be too generous.

If the value is significantly higher than your standard payment terms, you may need to improve your debt collection processes.

This displays your company’s default payment terms in days. This is the number of days that you usually give your customers to pay their invoices.

You should use this value as a guide when analysing your Days Sales Overdue information.

Sage Accounts calculates the Company’s Days Sales Outstanding value by taking the total outstanding balance from all customers and calculating how many days' worth of sales this value represents. This shows how long, on average, your customers take to pay their invoices.

This is your company’s default payment terms in days. This is the number of days that you usually give your customers to pay their invoices.

This shows, on average, how many days overdue your customer balances are at this point in time.

This lists customer accounts that have sales outstanding or overdue and shows:

• Customer account reference and name.
• The total amount outstanding.
• The total amount overdue.
• The number of days sales outstanding.
• The number of days sales overdue.