Where this number comes from
Days sales outstanding (AR ÷ revenue × 365)
Estimated value
52
- How it's produced
- Accounts receivable / cash collection timing
Sources
- Reasoned Smb-Median Estimate (~40 Days). Basis · Widely Reported Us All Industry DSO Clusters In The High 30s To Mid 40s — Credit Research Foundation Quarterly DSO ~37 Days, Common Net 30/net 45 Smb Terms With Typical Slippage. No Clean Free Per Segment Public Benchmark Exists (detailed Survey Data Is Paywalled). Re Validate Against Customer AR Aging. · published benchmark / reasoned-estimate citation
Assumed inputs — reasoned defaults
- Days sales outstanding (AR ÷ revenue × 365): Reasoned SMB-median estimate (~40 days). Basis: widely-reported US all-industry DSO clusters in the high-30s to mid-40s — Credit Research Foundation quarterly DSO ~37 days, common net-30/net-45 SMB terms with typical slippage. No clean free per-segment public benchmark exists (detailed survey data is paywalled). Re-validate against customer AR aging.
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Evidence level
This number carries no source signal, so we treat it as an unverified assumption.
- Observed Cited to a source-confirmed figure in your books.
- Explained Derived, but every input traces back to observed data.
- Inferred A reasoned default — defensible, but not measured.
- Hypothesis A raw assumption that still needs verification.