Cycle time in days from transmission of invoice to receipt of payment

This measure calculates the number of calendar days that elapse from invoicing a customer to receiving payment for the invoiced line items. It is part of a set of Cycle Time measures that help companies analyze the duration of the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" process.

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Measure Category:
Cycle Time
Measure ID:
100581
Total Sample Size:
2,952 All Companies
Performers:
25th Median 75th
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Key Performance Indicator:
Yes
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Compute this Measure

Units for this measure are days.

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Cycle time in calendar days from invoicing a customer to the receipt of payment

Key Terms

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Cycle Time

Cycle time is the total time from the beginning of the process to the end. This includes both time spent actually performing the process and time spent waiting to move forward.

Median

The metric value which represents the 50th percentile of a peer group. This could also be communicated as the metric value where half of the peer group sample shows lower performance than the expressed metric value or half of the peer group sample shows higher performance than the expressed metric value.

Measure Scope

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Cross Industry (7.3.1)

  • 9.2.3.1 - Establish AR policies (10799)
  • 9.2.3.2 - Receive/Deposit customer payments (10800)
  • 9.2.3.3 - Apply cash remittances (10801)
  • 9.2.3.4 - Prepare AR reports (10802)
  • 9.2.3.5 - Post AR activity to the general ledger (10803)