A key indicator of the health of businesses, payment terms stabilized last year.
According to the 2021 report of the Observatory of payment delays, which
Le Figaro
obtained, delays averaged 12.4 days in the fourth quarter of 2021. Despite galloping inflation, the repercussions of the war in Ukraine, and the rise in commodity prices,
'the level of delay has been decreasing for six months.
It had even dropped to 12.2 days at the end of March 2022”
, specifies Jeanne-Marie Prost, the president of the Observatory.
An encouraging decline which does not, however, make it possible to catch up with the level recorded before the health crisis, which was 1 day lower.
The delays are even much higher than the level recorded in 2017, when payment terms were on average 10.6 days.
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Some sectors, such as accommodation and catering, are particularly lagging behind.
At the end of 2021, the delays there still reached more than 20 days, a figure barely…
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