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Business Definition for: Accounts Receivable

  • the money that is owed to a company by those who have bought its goods or services and have not yet paid for them.
  • Abbr. AR

Wiktionary Definition for: Accounts Receivable

  • law : money that is owed to a party, and is counted by that party as an asset, even though it has not yet been received.

Additional Resources

Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are unpaid customer invoices, and any other money owed to the organization by customers. The sum of all customer accounts receivable is listed as a current asset on balance sheet. The accounts receivable ledger, which can also double as a customer statement, is a record of each...
Tags: Finance, Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting
White papers 2003-01-01
Assignment Of Accounts Receivable (No Recourse)
This is template for assignment of accounts receivable. Accounts receivable is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of customers who owe money to a person, company or organization for goods and services that have been provided to the customer.
Tags: Accounts Receivable, FreeBusinessForms.com, Operational Accounting, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Accounts Receivable And Inventory Management
Accounts receivable is the net monetary value realized by an organization through sales. The parameters affecting accounts receivable management include level of sales, terms of sales, and quality of customer. Efferent inventory management is imperative for reducing wastage in the production process. The paper examines the basics of accounts receivable...
Tags: Inventory Management, Accounts Receivable, Finance, Operational Accounting
Presentations 2003-01-01
Assignment Of Accounts Receivable (With Recourse)
This is template for assignment of accounts receivable with recourse. Accounts receivable is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of customers who owe money to a person, company, or organization for goods and services that have been provided to the customer.
Tags: Accounts Receivable, Recourse, FreeBusinessForms.com, Operational Accounting, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Aging Of Accounts Receivable
This is the companion form to Aging of Accounts Payable. Use it to keep track of the age of your accounts receivable and to help you identify accounts in need of further collection activities.
Tags: Operational Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Accounts Receivable, Management, Finance, Entrepreneur.com Inc.
Tools & templates 2005-08-02
Accounts Receivable and Cash Flow
Accounts receivable represent sales that have not yet been collected as cash. It explains that merchandise or services in exchange for a customer's promise to pay at a certain time in the future. If the business normally extends credit to its customers, then the payment of accounts receivable...
Tags: Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Accounts Receivable Financing
This paper discusses about the accounts receivable financing. As a business owner one needs ways to keep up with growth and meet increasing cash needs. The accounts receivable financing program offered by Sovereign Funding Group SFG lets the owner to establish a revolving credit line secured by receivables with advance...
Tags: Operational Accounting, Sovereign Funding Group Accounts Receivable Financing, Financial Services, Finance, Accounts Receivable, Receivables
White papers
Accounts Receivable Aging
Use this template to organize a company's current and past due accounts according to how long they have been outstanding. It can be used on paper or filled in electronically. Because many businesses maintain their accounts receivable in a database, you may wish to use file-linking formulas to reference the...
Tags: Finance, Operational Accounting, Accounts Receivable
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
Accounts Receivable Clerk Job Description
The Accounts Receivable Clerk job description template includes the following job summary: To perform tasks required for an accurate Accounts Receivable System Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Tags: Job, Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Aged Accounts Receivable Report
This template assists accounting teams in tracking and recording all accounts receivable. It helps the user manage the cash collections process and foresee potential problems with each customer that is using terms to pay.
Tags: Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Finance
Tools & templates 2004-04-19
Factoring: Converting Accounts Receivables Into Capital
It has been observed that keeping the cash flowing is a challenge for all businesses. As every business owner knows, sales alone do not measure the profitability of a company. The solutions may be Accounts Receivable Funding provided through Diversified Funding Services, Inc. Accounts Receivable Factoring is quickly becoming a...
Tags: Factoring, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Receivable Factoring, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-10-01
Supervisor, Accounts Receivable/Billing Job Description
The Supervisor, Accounts Receivable/Billing job description template includes the following job summary: To supervise the billing and accounts receivable department in the recording and collection of customer invoices to ensure prompt processing and payment. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Accounts Receivable, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Credit And Accounts Receivable Management
When a sale is made, an organization receives money. Accounts receivable management encompasses the collection and processing activities of the aforesaid money. The organization, from time to time, due to pressure posed by competition or otherwise, resorts to offering credit to buyers. The formulation and operationalization of credit policies and...
Tags: Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Accounts Receivable Management, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Accounts Receivable Management
Numbers and technology don't drive accounts receivable and payable processes. People do. A patient's experience related to charges - something that may happen once in a lifetime - is an indelible experience that fundamentally affects the financial survival of payers and providers. Accounts receivable is an information-dependent process that can...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Patient, Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2004-06-29
Components of the Accounting System
Accounting system is mainly considered as a wheel whose hub is the general ledger (G/L). These include Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, Order entry etc. These modules are ledgers themselves. We call them subledgers. Each contains the detailed entries of its specific field, such as accounts receivable. If you are just...
Tags: Finance, Accounting System, Accounts Receivable, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Accounting
White papers 2003-01-01
IVAX Diagnostics Announces Collection of Significant Accounts Receivable; Reports Preliminary First Quarter Results
MIAMI -- IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. (AMEX:IVD) today reported that it received a payment of approximately 2 million Euro from a governmental region in Italy in satisfaction of previously outstanding accounts receivable balances from hospitals located in the region. A significant portion of this payment relates to accounts receivable against which...
Tags: accounts receivable, IVAX Corp.
Research articles 2005-05-16
Accounts Receivable, Trade Debt and Reorganization
The focus of this article is on the management of working capital as accounts receivable and trade debts are the part of the working capital. If a company is sound with working capital the bankruptcy chances are very less for that company. The optimal outcome of a firm in bankruptcy...
Tags: Working Capital, Accounts Receivable, Creditor, Finance, Business Operations, Operational Accounting, Litigation, Bankruptcy, Debt
White papers 2000-07-01
Freddie Mac signs with SQL Financials for enterprisewide accounts receivable, revenue accounting solutions; Implements accounts receivable, revenue accounting for two business divisions in four months
ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 11, 1995 -- SQL Financials International, Inc. announced today that Freddie Mac, the secondary mortgage market corporation that finances approximately one out of every six homes in the U.S., has licensed its client/server Accounts Receivable, Revenue Accounting, Task Manager and Document Manager packages for multi-site use nationwide.
Tags: accounts receivable, Freddie Mac, SQL
Research articles 1995-09-11
Convergys Appoints William T. Higginbotham as Vice President and COO of its Accounts Receivable Management Business
CINCINNATI & OLATHE, Kan. -- Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), the global leader in relationship management, announces the appointment of William T. Higginbotham to the position of Vice President Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Accounts Receivable Management. In this leadership role, Higginbotham will be responsible for the continued revenue growth and...
Tags: accounts receivable, Convergys Corp.
Research articles 2008-01-22
Outsourcing in Accounting: Current State and Development of Outsourcing Measures in the Area of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
Concentrating on core competencies, companies turn to outsourcing of support functions. With BPO, this concept has achieved a new quality: BPO aims to outsource entire business processes that do not contribute directly to value-added activities and that can be performed at lower costs or of a higher quality by external...
Tags: Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, It Operations, Operational Accounting, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, BearingPoint Inc., Accounts Receivable, BPO, Accounts Payable, Accounting
White papers 2004-11-16
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