Collection Days

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Period of time that it takes for a business to receive payments owed in terms of accounts receivable.

The Average Collection Period can be found utilizing the below equation (per Investopedia):

Where:
Days = Total amount of days in period
AR = Average amount of accounts receivables
Credit Sales = Total amount of net credit sales during period