How To Calculate Accounts Payable Turnover in Sage 300 | Arithmix

Accounts payable turnover is a financial metric that measures how quickly a company pays off its suppliers and vendors. It is an important indicator of a company's financial health and efficiency. Calculating accounts payable turnover in Sage 300 is a straightforward process that can provide valuable insights into a company's financial performance.

What Is Accounts Payable Turnover?

Accounts payable turnover is a ratio that measures how many times a company pays off its accounts payable during a given period. It is calculated by dividing the total amount of purchases made on credit by the average accounts payable balance during the same period. The resulting number indicates how many times a company pays off its suppliers in a year.

For example, if a company has $1 million in purchases made on credit during a year and an average accounts payable balance of $200,000 during the same period, its accounts payable turnover ratio would be 5. This means that the company pays off its suppliers five times a year, on average.

When Is It Valuable To Calculate Accounts Payable Turnover?

Calculating accounts payable turnover can provide valuable insights into a company's financial health and efficiency. A high accounts payable turnover ratio indicates that a company is paying off its suppliers quickly, which can be a sign of good financial management. It can also indicate that a company has good relationships with its suppliers and is able to negotiate favorable payment terms.

On the other hand, a low accounts payable turnover ratio can indicate that a company is struggling to pay off its suppliers, which can be a sign of financial distress. It can also indicate that a company is not taking advantage of available discounts or is not negotiating favorable payment terms with its suppliers.

Overall, calculating accounts payable turnover in Sage 300 can provide valuable insights into a company's financial performance and help identify areas for improvement. By monitoring this metric over time, companies can track their progress and make informed decisions about their financial management strategies.

How Do You Calculate Accounts Payable Turnover in Sage 300

Sage 300 itself isn’t naturally geared towards letting you calculate complex metrics like Accounts Payable Turnover. As an alternative, teams typically use products like Arithmix to import data from Sage 300 and build out dashboards.

What is Arithmix?

Arithmix is the next generation spreadsheet - a collaborative, web-based platform for working with numbers that’s powerful yet easy to use. With Arithmix you can import data from systems like Sage 300, combine it with data from other systems, and create calculations like Accounts Payable Turnover.

In Arithmix, data is organized into Tables and referenced by name, not by cell location like a spreadsheet, simplifying calculation creation. Data and calculations can be shared with others and re-used like building blocks, vastly streamlining analysis, model building, and reporting in a highly scalable and easy to maintain platform. Data can be edited, categorized (by dimensions) and freely pivoted. Calculations are automatically copied across a dimension - eliminating copy and paste of formulas.

Arithmix is fully collaborative, giving your entire team access to your numbers and the ability to work together seamlessly.

Calculating Accounts Payable Turnover in Arithmix

Calculating metrics like Accounts Payable Turnover is simple in Arithmix. Once you've created your free account, you’ll be able to import your Sage 300 data, and use it to create natural language formulas for metrics like Accounts Payable Turnover.

Arithmix is designed to give you the power to build any calculations you want on top of your Sage 300 data, while also being easy to use and collaborate on. You can share your dashboards with users inside and outside of your organisation, making it easy to empower your whole team.