Working Capital Assessment

Where is your working capital hiding?

Nine questions. Three minutes. Find the gaps in payment visibility
and control that could be limiting your working capital strategy.

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Dimension 1 of 3

Visibility & Insight

How clearly can you see the gap between target and actual payment behavior, and how far ahead can treasury see what's coming?

1. How do you compare your organization's DPO to targets?
2. How well do you track the gap between contracted terms and actual payment dates?
3. How far ahead can treasury see upcoming AP obligations?
Dimension 2 of 3

Standardization & Control

How consistent are payment rules across entities, and how well are exceptions governed?

4. How consistent are payment timing rules across entities?
5. How are payment exceptions tracked and governed?
6. How are global targets translated to local realities?
Dimension 3 of 3

Decision-Making & Optimization

How deliberately does your organization decide when to preserve cash versus put it to work?

7. How do you decide when to preserve cash vs. pay early?
8. How do you quantify the financial value of payment timing decisions?
9. How do you use this year's payment data to plan next year's targets?

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Global working capital playbook

Turn your results into a working capital plan.

Get practical frameworks for setting payment timing targets, governing exceptions, and deciding when to preserve cash or put it to work.

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Medius Payments

Pay on your terms, not your backlog.

Working capital strategy only works if you control when cash leaves the business. Medius Payments gives you real-time visibility into what's going out and when, so payment timing follows your strategy instead of your workload.

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96%

of finance teams say late payments cause stress or burnout. Even when AP is automated.

2026 Financial Census

When payments miss terms, working capital gets harder to plan.

Most organizations have invested in AP technology, yet a third of invoices still go out late. The 2026 Financial Census looks at why payments keep missing terms and what it takes to close the gap.

See the findings