Cash Maturity: Leader or Follower? Assess Your Finance Transformation!
Dear Sir/Madam,

Many companies are engaged in financial transformation projects, particularly in the Order-to-Cash (O2C) cycle, to address complex challenges. Our study aims to understand the objectives, resources, and areas of these transformations. It seeks to analyze how these changes enable companies to combine cash acceleration and cost reduction, among other benefits.

How is your company approaching this transformation in 2025 and beyond? Does it rank among the Leaders, Adopters, or Explorers?

Participate in the 3rd edition of our study, conducted in partnership with PwC. In just 5 minutes, assess your progress in transforming the Order-to-Cash cycle by answering a few questions.

You will then receive the consolidated results of the study, with key figures, trends, and best practices by industry sector worldwide.
General

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* 1. Has your company implemented a financial transformation project?

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* 2. Is your company considering new financial transformation projects in the short term?

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* 3. Which elements of the O2C cycle are part of this financial transformation?
(Multiple responses possible)

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* 4. What is the expected timeline for the results of your Order-to-Cash transformation projects?

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* 5. Do you aim to reduce the operating costs of the O2C cycle?

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* 6. What are the top 3 challenges you want to address with the O2C transformation?
(Please select 3 responses)

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* 7. What is the expected impact of this transformation on cash collection acceleration?

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* 8. What is the expected impact of this transformation on operating costs?

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* 9. How have you budgeted for the O2C cycle transformation effort?

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* 10. What motivates your evolution choices?
(Multiple responses possible)

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* 11. Which areas are the focus of efforts in the O2C cycle transformation?
(Multiple responses possible)

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* 12. Please rate each of the 4 areas in terms of effort allocation (in the O2C cycle transformation) on a scale of 0 to 10.
(0 being the lowest, 10 the highest)

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People (training, hiring skilled technology professionals, etc.)
Processes (automated transactional processes, automated workflows, collaboration, etc.)
Technologies (RPA/Robotic Process Automation, AI/Artificial Intelligence, ML/Machine Learning, etc.)
Governance (Reporting, Forecasting, Analytics for decision support)

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* 13. What is, in your opinion, the estimated percentage of manual tasks in the Order-to-Cash (O2C) process, including order entry, billing, collections, credit risk management, payment entry and reconciliation, as well as reporting?

0 100
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i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.
Human resources

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* 14. What are the 3 new skills that you think will become increasingly important within Finance teams in the next 18 months?
(Please select 3 answers)

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* 15. To acquire the skills mentioned in the previous question, to what extent do you consider the following strategy:

  Moderately Strongly Not at all
Developing internal skills (upskilling)?
Recruiting?
Resorting to outsourcing (consulting firm, freelance)?
Processus

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* 16. Does your O2C process currently involve a Shared Services Center?

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* 17. What areas are covered by the SSC?
(Multiple responses possible)

Technology

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* 18. Among the following automation technologies/solutions, which ones is your financial organization currently deploying?
(Multiple answers possible)

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* 19. Among the following automation technologies/solutions, which ones does your financial organization plan to deploy in the next 18 months?
(Multiple answers possible)

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* 20. Which of the following options best describes the data analysis capabilities of your financial organization?

Information

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* 21. To receive your score on Financial Transformation and Order-to-Cash process mastery, as well as the consolidated results of this study, please fill in the fields below:

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* 22. What is your role in the organization?

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* 23. In which country do you work?

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* 24. In which industry do you work?

To get your score, click the "Submit" button below. After obtaining your score, our Finance and Digital Transformation experts at Sidetrade ad PwC are ready to help you identify and deploy optimization vectors in the Order-to-Cash domain quickly. In this context, you will also be able to measure your company's position compared to the average DSO, payment terms, and payment delays using Sidetrade's Data Lake.
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