A measure of a company's total accounts payable turnover and their reliance on short-term financing for payments to suppliers; expressed as the average number of days a company requires to pay its accounts within a certain period of time. To calculate, the total supplier purchases in the period are divided by average accounts payable balance, and then divided by 365.

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