FCT Account Receivables

Gain Full Visibility and Control Over Your Accounts Receivable: Built on the Microsoft Cloud, the Finance Control Tower – Accounts Receivable (FCT-AR) Module empowers finance teams to efficiently manage receivables, accelerate cash flow, and reduce risk. By delivering real-time, data-driven insights into AR operations, the solution drives better decision-making, improves collection outcomes, and ensures compliance across the enterprise.

Key Capabilities and Business Value-Comprehensive AR Insights: The FCT-AR Module provides end-to-end visibility into key accounts receivable metrics, including:

-Total invoice volume and value -Receivables balance and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) -Overdue invoices, bad debt ratios, unapplied receipts, and cash application cycle times

With intuitive dashboards and drill-down analytics, finance teams can monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and forecast receivables to support proactive financial planning.

Advanced Risk Segmentation with Propensity to Pay Analytics: Utilizing machine learning models, the solution delivers propensity-to-pay scoring that segments customers by risk level—low, medium, and high Key metrics include-

-Open and overdue receivables -Collected and received amounts -Average invoice aging and risk-based segmentation

Interactive visuals highlight customer risk distribution, industry exposure, and overdue aging—enabling smarter credit decisions and prioritization of collection efforts.

Overdue Invoice and Bad Debt Intelligence: Finance teams gain granular insights into overdue amounts by business unit, payment terms, and aging buckets. The module also tracks- -Trends and causes of bad debt -Business unit–wise categorization -Recovery rate performance

These insights support stronger controls and targeted recovery strategies to reduce financial leakage.

Unapplied Cash Receipt Analytics: Improve reconciliation with detailed analysis of unapplied receipts-

-Identify reasons for unapplied amounts -Track unapplied trends across business units -Analyze reconciliation cycle durations

This visibility helps resolve mismatches quickly and improve straight-through cash application.

Cash Application and Collections Optimization: Track cash receipt volumes—manual and automated—alongside application cycle times and success rates. Collections teams benefit from-

-Analytics on outbound call performance (target vs. actual) -Collection rate trends and team performance insights

The result: more efficient collections and improved working capital.

Conversational BI for Dynamic Reporting: FCT-AR includes a natural language query interface that allows business users to ask questions and receive instant, automated insights. For example-

“What is the DSO trend for the last 3 quarters?” “Which customers have the highest overdue balances in manufacturing?”

This demand-driven, self-service reporting fosters faster, more informed decisions without reliance on IT or data teams.

Built for Microsoft Ecosystem This solution is fully integrated with Microsoft Azure and leverages Power BI for interactive dashboards and AI-driven analytics. It can be extended and embedded within the broader Microsoft ecosystem, ensuring a seamless experience across your digital finance landscape.