"days sales outstanding" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} days sales outstanding (uncountable)
  1. (accounting) The ratio of the number of accounts receivable to the average number of sales per day, used as an estimate of the number of days needed to collect all accounts receivable. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: DSO Coordinate_terms: days payable outstanding, DPO [initialism]

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