Surveys

CRF's strongest resource is its members. In accordance with its mission, the Foundation routinely seeks input from the membership. Surveys are performed addressing timely and relevant issues, trends and data meaningful to today's credit and receivable professionals.

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Read more about CRF's Statistical Analysis Survey. View a sample report; and/or fill out the CRF Statistical Benchmarking Survey.

The quarterly National Summary of Domestic Trade Receivables (a.k.a., the DSO Survey) is an examination of the condition of A/R for U.S. companies. This data has been collected quarterly since 1960.

View the summary of the last quarter data.

        Formulas and definitions used in CRF's NSDTR report. Read about them here.

        CRF's Key Performance Indicators used in the NSDTR report. Read about them here.

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CRF's Last Year's Results for the Collection Productivity Survey
Over the years CRF has developed and standardized numerous measures dealing with the quality of a businesses accounts receivable. However, collection productivity is the first measure to gauge how productive the effort is given the wherewithal available to perform the collection function. We have defined collection productivity as the measure of the efficiency with which a company's sales are collected, given the resources, human and technological, to perform the task.