Deadline structure

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The deadline structure is a commercial process in which the handling of payment deadlines is a decisive factor in liquidity management . If a supplier grants a company 60 days for payment, it could only allow 30 days for the resale of a product. In this case, the supplier finances the company's trading via the payment term. The company receives the invoice amount from the customer before it has to pay the supplier itself and could thus, theoretically, trade without any liquidity reserves.