Imagine your business needs cash – to grow, to buy equipment, return more to your shareholders. But this is not really imagination – it happens everyday. Where does your cash come from:  An outside source? Add more debt? Provide a stock offering? Sell off inventory?

How about exploring your own processes?

Yes, more cash might be in stuck in a process you nearly take for granted. Take a look at Accounts Receivable. There is cash to be found between the moment you complete a service or shipment and the moment you have cash in the bank. Sure, we all know about reducing days sales outstanding (DSO) -- the amount of cash between invoice creation and cash in hand. Companies have been targeting this for years with mixed results. But what is not well known is that there is cash elsewhere in your accounts receivable performance chain—namely before the invoice is created.