account payable

account payable
account pay·able /-'pā-ə-bəl/ n pl accounts payable: the balance due to a creditor on a current account

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

account payable
n.
Debts owed by a business.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


account payable
n. The balance owed to a creditor as indicated by an account.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


account payable
A debt owed by a business that arises in the normal course of its dealings, that has not been replaced by a note from another debtor, and that is not necessarily due or past due.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


account payable
A debt owed by a business that arises in the normal course of its dealings, that has not been replaced by a note from another debtor, and that is not necessarily due or past due.

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