Accounts Payable – Meaning, Process, Advantages, and Disadvantages
Every business owner would like to have all sales on a cash basis, but that’s not always possible in a competitive marketplace. Sometimes, sellers need to offer sales on credit terms just to get customers to buy their products. Unfortunately, selling on delayed payment terms opens up an entirely new aspect of running a business: managing the extension of trade credit to customers. constitute a current or short term liability representing the buyer’s obligation to pay a certain amount on a date in the near future for value of goods or services received. They are short term deferments of cash payments that the buyer of goods and services is allowed by the seller. Payables is extended in connection with goods purchased for resale or for processing and resale, and hence excludes consumer credit provided to individuals for purchasing goods for ultimate use and installment credit provided for purchase of equipment Continue reading