Accounts receivable turnover

The ratio of net credit sales to average accounts receivable, a measure of how quickly customers pay their bills.

Similar financial terms

Accounts payable
Money a company owes to its suppliers

Accounts receivable
Money owed to a company by its customers

Nostro accounts
As there is no dollar cleraing and settlement system outside the USA, all eurodoolar transactions must take place through banks in New York using their clearing house system. Therefore all banks operating outside the USA and dealing in eurodollars must hold demand deposit accounts with US-based banks in New York through which receipts and payments can be effected.

These accounts, known as Nostro accounts, are also used to settle banks' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to ...

Receivables turnover ratio
Total operating revenues divided by average receivables. Used to measure how effectively a firm is managing its accounts receivable.

Receivables balance fractions
The percentage of a month's sales that remain uncollected (and part of accounts receivable) at the end of succeeding months.

Turnover
In managerial finance it is the number of times a given asset, such as inventory, is replaced during the accounting period, usually a year.

In corporate corporate finance it is the ratio of annual sales to net worth, representing the extent to which a company can growth without outside capital.

In financial markets it is the volume of shares traded as a percent of total shares listed during a specified period, usually a day or a year.

For mutual funds it is a measu ...

Total asset turnover
The ratio of net sales to total assets.

Thus, the total asset turnover ratio compares the turnover with the assets that the business has used to generate that turnover.

In other words, we are just saying that for every 1 of assets, the turnover is x.

Portfolio turnover rate
For an investment company, an annualized rate found by dividing the lesser of purchases and sales by the average of portfolio assets.

Termbox
Digg the financial term Digg it!
Share financial term on facebook! Share on Facebook
Add to Yahoo My Web Add to Yahoo!
Add to Google bookmarks! Add to Google
Add financial term to del.icio.us Add to del.icio.us
Add financial term to Reddit! Add to Reddit
Add financial term on Spurl Add to Spurl
Add financial term to Furl Add to Furl
E-mail term to a friend! E-mail term to friend!
Printer friendly version Printer friendly version


Did you know?

Protective put buying strategy

A strategy that involves buying a put option on the underlying security that is held in a portfolio.


Popular terms


About us  About bizterms.net
Contact us  Contact us
Bookmark us