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CFOs can generate significantly more cash from their operations using AI based analytics to make cash flow predictable, flexible, and faster.

Over 75% of US mid-market companies have poor cash flow. A poor cash flow can not only stunt a company’s growth but can lead to a complete failure. It doesn’t matter if a company is highly profitable or has the best product in the market. If it doesn’t have enough cash to pay its employees, debtors, and suppliers, the company will shut down.

Are you surprised that on an average, 23% of the trade receivables of US mid-market companies were past due in Q4’21?In fact, companies in a few sub-sectors had as much as 67% of their receivables past due. Moreover, the past dues percent increased by over 1 percent versus Q3’21.

Most companies fail due to poor cash flow! We analyzed 1,200 companies. To our surprise, only 1 in 4 companies manage their cash efficiently and there were no significant differences by sector or by company size. So what makes them good?