Impact calculator
Your company
With your assumptions, reducing DSO by 22.9 days releases €314k, plus €100k in recovered bad debt.
| Annual revenue billed | 5,000,000 € |
|---|---|
| Current DSO | 62 days |
| People on collections | 1 FTE |
| Fully-loaded cost per FTE per year | 55,000 € |
| DSO reduction | 37% |
|---|---|
| Bad debt recovered | 2% |
| Cost of capital | 11% |
| Collections effort automated | 42% |
| Cash unlocked (one-time) | €414,247 |
|---|---|
| Value of freed cash (per year) | €45,567 |
| Collections effort redeployed (per year) | €23,100 |
22.9 d fewer days of DSO
0.42 FTE redeployed to other work
How the numbers are built.
- Daily revenue
- revenue billed ÷ 365
- DSO days removed
- current DSO × DSO reduction
- Cash from DSO
- daily revenue × days removed
- Bad debt recovered
- % recovered × revenue billed
- Cash unlocked (one-time)
- cash from DSO + bad debt recovered
- Value of freed cash (per year)
- cash unlocked × cost of capital
- Effort redeployed (per year)
- FTE × loaded cost per FTE × share automated
- Year-1 impact
- cash unlocked + value of freed cash + effort redeployed
The assumptions are the reader’s, not a Cleavr commitment.

