How to Use account payable in a Sentence

account payable

noun
Definition of account payablenext
  • Then the next thing to help the restaurants out would be an amnesty of accounts payable and bills.
    — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Sanders later got a job with the company in 1997 and still works there in accounts payable at their Gilbert facility.
    — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But Williams reviewed eight months of accounts payable records and found more discrepancies.
    — star-telegram, 11 Mar. 2014
  • Bautista, who lives in Temecula, Calif., was hired at Watkins as an accounts payable employee.
    — Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Three Wells Fargo accounts were set up: one for payroll, one for accounts payable and one for general funds.
    — Author: Naomi Klouda, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Tesla ended the first quarter with a stretched balance sheet: Cash on hand was $2.2 billion, while accounts payable topped $3.2 billion.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • Marilyn worked as an accounts payable clerk for Travelers for over 38 years.
    — courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The decision was due to accounts payable, deficit fund balances and a treasury deficiency.
    — Rachel Berry, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2019
  • 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 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
  • Generating cash is more important than ever, though—Tesla still has more than $10 billion in debt and $3.5 billion in accounts payable on its books.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Julia had worked in the accounts payable department for twenty-five years at Strathmore Paper Company.
    — courant.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Among other duties, the auditor manages the county's revenue, accounts payable and payroll.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2018
  • Burgess was responsible for the volunteer department's payroll and accounts payable systems, court records say.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Capital that is tied up in court proceedings or accounts payable is not available to finance productive enterprise.
    — Tony Lima, WSJ, 24 July 2017
  • The platform aims to help companies eliminate the need for manual account payable and accounts receivable processes.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • The facility’s most-recent financial update states Tri-City had nearly $100 million in accounts payable, a figure that has caused some creditors to sue, seeking to get past invoices paid.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2024
  • Blue Orca says Samsonite overstated Tumi’s accounts payable in the first deal and understated inventories in the second deal, in ways that would flatter its profit margins in subsequent quarters.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • Additionally, the company reported $3.03 billion in accounts payable, which investors may look at warily if Tesla needs to take on any more debt for whatever reason.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Deborah Tarasoff, the accounts payable supervisor at the Trump Organization.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 7 May 2024
  • Topics include the setup of new files, processing bank transactions, accounts receivable and accounts payable entries, reconciliation of bank and credit card accounts, and running basic financial reports.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some of these individuals, including a junior bookkeeper for the Trump Organization and the head of the company’s accounts payable department, work in Trump Tower to this day.
    — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 5 June 2024

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