Patent ID: 8401892

Claim:
A method for providing an assessment results report for an accounts receivable of a business, the method comprising: obtaining a first information set indicative of categories of data of the accounts receivable of the business to obtain a days sales outstanding figure; obtaining a second information set indicative of operational issues impacting the categories of data for the categories of data of the accounts receivable; determining, from the second information set, a plurality of root causes corresponding to the operational issues impacting the categories of data; determining an improvement potential for the plurality of root causes by assessing a potential likelihood and magnitude of improvement of the plurality of root causes; automatically calculating, in a computing device, an improved days sales outstanding from the days sales outstanding figure and the improvement potential for the plurality of root causes; and automatically generating an assessment results report for the improved days sales outstanding from the first and second information sets wherein the assessment results report is automatically generated by the computing device.