Benchmarks & Industry

Free tool

Industry Cash Flow Comparison Calculator

Pick your industry and see the typical cash-conversion cycle, broken into days sales outstanding, days inventory, and days payable, so you know what normal looks like before you compare your own.

  • 2-minute tool
  • Free, no signup
Benchmarks & Industry
45 days#5 of 9 by collection speed
Cash conversion cycle
50 daysDSO (collect)
30 daysDPO (pay)
25 daysDIO (inventory)

For manufacturing, 50 days to collect plus 25 days of inventory, minus 30 days to pay suppliers, leaves 45 days of cash tied up.

What you get

What a normal cash cycle looks like in your industry

Every industry ties up cash differently. Some collect fast and pay slow, others carry months of inventory. Choose your industry and this calculator shows the typical days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, days payable outstanding, and the cash conversion cycle they add up to, so you have a real baseline to measure your own numbers against.

  • Typical DSO, DIO, DPO, and cash conversion cycle for your industry
  • A baseline to see whether your cash cycle runs faster or slower than peers
  • No signup. Pick an industry and the full comparison runs right here

The tool

Run your numbers

Industry cash flow

How does your cash conversion cycle compare?

Pick your industry to see its typical DSO, DPO and DIO, the resulting cash conversion cycle, and where it ranks against every other sector we benchmark.

Industry · Benchmarks reflect typical performance for each sector.
DSO — Days Sales Outstanding
Average days to collect cash after a sale.
DPO — Days Payable Outstanding
Average days you take to pay your suppliers.
DIO — Days Inventory Outstanding
Average days inventory sits before it sells.
CCC — Cash Conversion Cycle
DSO + DIO − DPO. Lower means cash comes back faster.

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The Flow

One working-capital decision every other week. Which asset to borrow against, what a facility costs all-in, or how to make payroll before your customer pays, in a two-minute read.

Bi-weekly. 26 issues a year.