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account payable

account payable noun: a balance due to a creditor on a current account.

Noun

account payable (plural accounts payable)

  1. A balance due to a creditor on a current account.
    • Until that time, the amount is held as an account payable and added to the current liabilities of your business. When an outstanding expense is paid, the payment amount is subtracted from a cash account and removed from the accounts payable.2008, Barbara Findlay Schenck, John Davies, Selling Your Business For Dummies, page 99
    • If a company, for example, purchases $500 in raw materials from its supplier on credit, the company incurs a $500 account payable.2013, Paul Pignataro, Financial Modeling and Valuation
    Synonyms:
    AP

Synonyms of account payable

Forms of account payable

pluralaccounts payable

Questions about account payable

What does account payable mean?
Account payable means a balance due to a creditor on a current account.
What part of speech is account payable?
Account payable is a noun.
What is the plural of account payable?
The plural of account payable is accounts payable.

Words near account payable in the dictionary

  1. account managers
  2. account men
  3. account number
  4. account numbers
  5. account of
  6. account payable
  7. account receivable
  8. account statement
  9. account statements
  10. account to
  11. accounta

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