Trade debtor
Trade debtors are persons or organizations who allows others to buy items or goods with credit and to receive payment for such goods at a later date, and tangible assets include both fixed assets and current assets. The items or goods are the assets, not the trade debtors. Debtor’s Turnover Ratio or Receivables Turnover Ratio. Debtor’s turnover ratio is also known as Receivables Turnover Ratio, Debtor’s Velocity and Trade Receivables Ratio. It is an activity ratio that finds out the relationship between net credit sales and average trade receivables of a business. The calculation of debtor days is: (Trade receivables ÷ Annual credit sales) x 365 days. For example, if a company has average trade receivables of $5,000,000 and its annual sales are $30,000,000, then its debtor days is 61 days.