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  2. How Accounts Payable Are Recorded on a Balance Sheet - AOL

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    Accounts Payable vs. Accounts Receivable. At first glance, accounts payable and accounts receivable might seem similar. But it’s important not to confuse these two separate issues.

  3. Accounts receivable - Wikipedia

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    Accounts receivable represents money owed by entities to the firm on the sale of products or services on credit. In most business entities, accounts receivable is typically executed by generating an invoice and either mailing or electronically delivering it to the customer, who, in turn, must pay it within an established timeframe, called credit terms [citation needed] or payment terms.

  4. Accounts payable - Wikipedia

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    Accounts payable personnel must watch for fraudulent invoices. In the absence of a purchase order system, the first line of defense is the approving manager. However, AP staff should become familiar with a few common problems, such as " Yellow Pages " ripoffs in which fraudulent operators offer to place an advertisement.

  5. Account (bookkeeping) - Wikipedia

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    The classification of accounts into real, personal and nominal is based on their nature i.e. physical asset, liability, juristic entity or financial transaction. The further classification of accounts is based on the periodicity of their inflows or outflows in the context of the fiscal year: Income is a short term inflow during the fiscal year.

  6. What are assets, liabilities and equity? - AOL

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    Accounts receivable. In some instances, you might be able to quantify less tangible assets, like your company’s positive reputation in your community or an individual employee who has specific ...

  7. Chart of accounts - Wikipedia

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    Liability accounts are used to recognize liabilities. A liability is a present obligation of an entity to transfer an economic benefit (CF E37). Common examples of liability accounts include accounts payable, deferred revenue, bank loans, bonds payable and lease obligations. Equity accounts are used to recognize ownership equity. The terms ...

  8. Bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Separate account records are maintained for petty cash, accounts payable and accounts receivable, and other relevant transactions such as inventory and travel expenses. To save time and avoid the errors of manual calculations, single-entry bookkeeping can be done today with do-it-yourself bookkeeping software.

  9. Invoice - Wikipedia

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    The buyer (i.e. the issuer) should treat the invoice as an account payable and the seller should treat it as an account receivable. If there is tax on the sale, e.g. VAT or GST, then the buyer and seller may need to adjust their tax accounts in accordance with tax legislation. [10]