Cash Conversion Cycle & Working-Capital Calculator
Every day between paying for stock and getting paid for it is cash your business funds. Enter revenue, COGS, inventory, receivables and payables to see your days inventory outstanding, days sales outstanding, days payable outstanding, your cash conversion cycle in days — and the cash a shorter cycle would release.
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We’ll show your DIO, DSO, DPO, cash conversion cycle and the cash a shorter cycle releases, and email you the breakdown.
What the cash conversion cycle tells you
The cash conversion cycle is how long cash is tied up in operations before it comes back as collected revenue. Days inventory outstanding is average inventory ÷ COGS × 365 — how long stock sits. Days sales outstanding is receivables ÷ revenue × 365 — how long customers take to pay. Days payable outstanding is payables ÷ COGS × 365 — how long you take to pay suppliers. The cycle is DIO + DSO − DPO: stock days plus collection days, less the supplier credit funding part of it. A shorter cycle frees cash that was trapped in working capital; each day removed releases roughly one day of COGS.
For FMCG and manufacturing businesses, the cycle usually hides in plain sight across disconnected systems — stock in the ERP, ageing in a finance export, supplier terms in a spreadsheet — so no one sees the whole number until year-end. The limit of this tool is that it uses period averages; genuine improvement comes from working it at SKU, customer and supplier level, live. To see DIO, DSO and DPO move in real time across the business, see inventory analytics or book 30 minutes with Amit.