Debtor & Creditor Credit-Cycle Analysis
Compare measured customer collection and supplier payment cycles with consistent aging, movement and rounding conventions.
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Overview
Debtor & Creditor Credit-Cycle Analysis
A skill for comparing debtor collection and creditor payment cycles in days. It separates actual activity from contractual terms and defines consistent aging and numeric conventions. Use it when you need comparable receivables and payables timing rather than a balance-only view.
What it does
Debtor & Creditor Credit-Cycle Analysis defines a comparable view of customer collection and supplier payment cycles. It examines debtors through average collection periods, outstanding invoices, overdue receivables and receivables aging. It examines creditors through average payment periods, outstanding supplier balances, overdue payables and supplier aging. The useful result is the comparison between the collection cycle and the payment cycle, with both measured on the same basis.
The cycle difference is expressed in days. A positive gap means customers take longer to pay than the business takes to pay suppliers. A zero gap means the measured cycles are equal. A negative gap means supplier payments happen later than customer collections. The skill states that difference and leaves its interpretation to the business. A positive gap can follow ordinary credit selling and shorter supplier terms; it is not automatically a negative assessment.
Measured activity remains distinct from contractual terms. A contract offering 30 days and an actual collection cycle of 42 days describe different facts. The actual collection or payment field must contain the measured cycle rather than substituting the contractual number. Converting day differences into money is treated as a separate calculation requiring its own basis.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use the skill to compare receivables and payables timing when a balance-sheet amount alone does not show the pressure of waiting for customer collections while paying suppliers sooner. It is useful when debtor and creditor records need neutral, comparable field names and consistent measurement conventions.
Start with a short recommendation when the request is exploratory. A spreadsheet or another artifact is created only when requested. Do not replace actual cycles with agreed terms, infer missing invoice due dates from payment terms, or treat a positive gap as an automatic business verdict.
Inputs and outputs
The process uses confirmed business context and a shared field list to produce requested CSV, SQL DDL, JSON Schema or Notion mappings. The movement fields are Credit Movement and Settlement on both sides. For customers, credit movements are invoices and settlements are collections. For suppliers, credit movements are bills and settlements are payments. This vocabulary keeps the supplier side understandable instead of giving both sides a customer-only label such as Total Billed.
Aging uses the recorded due date. Days overdue equal period end minus due date. If a due date has not been recorded, aging stays Unknown. Terms describe an agreement, while an invoice due date is a separate recorded fact.
Percentages use the whole-number convention: 97 represents 97 percent rather than 0.97. The table must not mix these conventions. Money cells contain bare numbers without currency symbols; currency remains Unknown until the user provides it. Amounts use gross, tax-inclusive ledger balances posted to each party's account, without extracting tax from those balances. Figures are rounded once, at the end, to two decimal places so their components can be re-derived from the row.
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Works out the smallest useful Debtor & Creditor Credit-Cycle Analysis setup for the business in
front of it, then builds it only when asked. The default output is a short recommendation, not a
spreadsheet. Artifacts - CSV, SQL DDL, JSON Schema, Notion mapping - are produced on request, from
one field list so they cannot drift apart.
The SOP rule this skill is built around: analyse debtors on the average collection period,
outstanding invoices, overdue receivables and the aging of receivables; analyse creditors on the
average payment period, outstanding supplier balances, overdue payables and supplier aging; then
compare the debtor collection cycle with the creditor payment cycle. The comparison is the point.
Two cycles measured the same way can be read against each other, and the day-to-day pressure of
waiting longer than you take is invisible as a line on the balance sheet. That pressure is
measured in days here. Turning it into money is a separate calculation with its own basis,
below.
Conflating them is the defect this module is built to prevent. Contractual terms of 30 days and
an actual collection cycle of 42 days are two facts about the same party, and the 42 is the one
that reaches the bank account. Writing the 30 into Actual Collection/Payment Days because it is
the number in the contract is a substituted value, not a measurement.
Neutral field names. The two movement fields are Credit Movement and Settlement, for
customers and for suppliers alike. Credit Movement is the credit-side activity that created the
balance in the period - customer invoices on the debtor side, supplier bills on the creditor
side. Settlement is what closed it - customer collections, supplier payments. A name likeTotal Billed describes only the debtor side and quietly makes the creditor side unreadable.
Positive means customers take longer to pay than the business takes to pay suppliers. Zero means
the two measured cycles are equal. Negative means suppliers are paid later than customers are
collected. A positive gap is not automatically bad - it is often the ordinary consequence of
selling on credit to a customer base and buying on shorter terms. The module states the
difference and leaves the judgement to the business.
Due dates are recorded, never derived. Days Overdue = Period End - Due Date. Where a due date
is not recorded, the aging is Unknown - a due date is never reconstructed from payment terms,
because terms are an agreement and the due date is a fact about one invoice.
Percentages, money and rounding. A percentage is stored as 97 for 97%, never 0.97, and the
convention is never mixed inside the table. Money is a bare number with no currency symbol in the
cell, and the currency itself is Unknown until the user states it. Amounts are the gross ledger
amounts as posted to the party's account, tax-inclusive; this module does not split tax out of a
balance. Every figure is rounded once, at the end, to two decimal places, so the components can be
re-derived from the row.
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