"account payable" meaning in English

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          "name": "Accounting",
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: account receivable"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Barbara Findlay Schenck, John Davies, Selling Your Business For Dummies, page 99:",
          "text": "Until that time, the amount is held as an account payable and added to the current liabilities of your business. When an outstanding expense is paid, the payment amount is subtracted from a cash account and removed from the accounts payable.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Paul Pignataro, Financial Modeling and Valuation:",
          "text": "If a company, for example, purchases $500 in raw materials from its supplier on credit, the company incurs a $500 account payable.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Sergio L. Schumukler, Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance, page 50:",
          "text": "After delivery, sellers issue an invoice, recorded as an account receivable by the seller and an account payable by the buyer.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A balance due to a creditor on a current account."
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          "current",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(accounting) A balance due to a creditor on a current account."
      ],
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        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "word": "ostovelka"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "compte fournisseur"
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          "word": "zobowiązanie"
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  "word": "account payable"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: account receivable"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Barbara Findlay Schenck, John Davies, Selling Your Business For Dummies, page 99:",
          "text": "Until that time, the amount is held as an account payable and added to the current liabilities of your business. When an outstanding expense is paid, the payment amount is subtracted from a cash account and removed from the accounts payable.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "If a company, for example, purchases $500 in raw materials from its supplier on credit, the company incurs a $500 account payable.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Sergio L. Schumukler, Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance, page 50:",
          "text": "After delivery, sellers issue an invoice, recorded as an account receivable by the seller and an account payable by the buyer.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A balance due to a creditor on a current account."
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        "(accounting) A balance due to a creditor on a current account."
      ],
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      "word": "ostovelka"
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  "word": "account payable"
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