The Financial Statements Analysis Working Group (FSA WG) has published a set of documents, under the title: "The Use of Accounting Information to Estimate Indicators of Customer and Supplier Payment Periods" (PowerPoint).

These documents intend to highlight the main results emerging from the studies conducted by the FSA WG over the last few years. The most recent studies of the group relate to trade credits of European non-financial corporations. These studies use accounting information drawn from financial statements in order to prepare indicators of days sales outstanding (DSO) and days payable outstanding (DPO), used as proxies for customer and supplier payment periods, respectively. Results are presented for the eight countries participating in the working group: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.