How to calculate days payable outstanding (DPO)?
Days of payables outstanding is a metric that reflects the average time (generally in days) that an organization will take to pay off its debt outstanding. Generally, a higher days payables outstanding ratio will indicate that it takes a company a longer amount of time to pay off its bills.

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