AFTER-TAX PAYABLE PERIOD

The average time period for a company to receive goods and pay the suppliers for the delivered goods, using cost of sales values and after-tax accounts payable. The value is commonly determined either yearly or quarterly, thereby substituting the N, 365 (for yearly values) or 90 (for quarterly values) in the formula below:

(average after-tax accounts payable / after tax cost of sales) * N number of days