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Examples of account payable in a Sentence
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The hospital’s balance sheet lists $97 million in accounts payable, a number that is said to have reached $90 million as of June 30, 2023, nearly one year ago.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
This is helpful for repetitive tasks associated with invoicing, order tracking, credit collections or reconciliations—freeing accounts receivable and accounts payable personnel to focus on more important, strategic initiatives.
—Mark Schwartz, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
Bautista, who lives in Temecula, Calif., was hired at Watkins as an accounts payable employee.
—Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
Companies haven’t typically needed to disclose supply-chain financing arrangements, often recording the transactions as accounts payable in their financial statements.
—Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
The platform aims to help companies eliminate the need for manual account payable and accounts receivable processes.
—Gene Marks, Forbes, 1 May 2022
In 2017, Kathman discovered that Gorman had written several checks from his client trust account payable to herself, the opinion says.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 1 July 2021
Under his direction, the store replaced the long accounts payable sheets with computers, but even technology could not balance the books.
—Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2020
In one of its simplest forms, a business email compromise operator will send an email posing as the chief executive officer to an accounts payable department with an urgent request to transfer funds or fulfill a fake invoice.
—William Turton, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1812, in the meaning defined above
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“Account payable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/account%20payable. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
Legal Definition
account payable
noun
account pay·able
-ˈpā-ə-bəl
plural accounts payable
: the balance due to a creditor on a current account
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