Cash flow · The conversion cycle · Element

The payable days

How long the organisation takes to pay its own suppliers.

The part

What it is

Extending payables is the fastest lever and the one with consequences, since suppliers respond to it in price and in priority.

Paying early for a discount is sometimes the better economics, and it requires the comparison to be made rather than assumed.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.