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Accounts payable is a liability. All payable accounts are considered a liability because it is something you owe another person/company.
It is NOT, accounts payable is never considered a debit on any financial statement. Accounts Payable is a liability that a company owes and therefore must maintain a "credit" balance.
All expenses incurred are part of income statement of company whle advance expenses or expenses payable are part of balance sheet.
No, generally a utility deposit is not a payable. On the rare chance that the company allows you to "make payments" on the deposit, until it is paid, the it would be a payable, however, that generally is not the case. A utility deposit is generally required as a "security" deposit to the company providing the service and as a rule must be paid in advance before said service can be activated. Most companies after a prescribed amount of time will and certain requirements are met (no late payments, no disconnection, etc) will refund the deposit to the person/company. If this is the case, then a utility deposit that may be refunded after a certain period of time is actually considered an asset.
Dividend payable is the amount which is payable by the company to share holders so it is a liability of company and not an asset.
Accounts payable is a liability. All payable accounts are considered a liability because it is something you owe another person/company.
It is NOT, accounts payable is never considered a debit on any financial statement. Accounts Payable is a liability that a company owes and therefore must maintain a "credit" balance.
All expenses incurred are part of income statement of company whle advance expenses or expenses payable are part of balance sheet.
No, generally a utility deposit is not a payable. On the rare chance that the company allows you to "make payments" on the deposit, until it is paid, the it would be a payable, however, that generally is not the case. A utility deposit is generally required as a "security" deposit to the company providing the service and as a rule must be paid in advance before said service can be activated. Most companies after a prescribed amount of time will and certain requirements are met (no late payments, no disconnection, etc) will refund the deposit to the person/company. If this is the case, then a utility deposit that may be refunded after a certain period of time is actually considered an asset.
Dividend payable is the amount which is payable by the company to share holders so it is a liability of company and not an asset.
A note payable is a tangible note between you and another company that you will pay them back for a good or service they sold you. An account Payable is an allocation base for all of your notes payable. so for example i could have a note payable to company A for $100, Company B for $500, and Company C for $300, and my accounts payable would be $900
Account payable is an account that is a Liability (current). When a person or company owes another company money on account, that is an account payable.
Accounts Payable is the amount which is payable by company for the merchandise purchased by company but payment is due in future, as it is the liability of company so like all liability accounts it has credit balance as normal balance.
Yes accounts payable is non-formal kind of source of finance because every company allows time for payment of accounts payable and due to that reasons it is source of finance for that time period.
As in business company purchases materials or goods from different vendors on advance same like sales to different clients on advance, so if all clients balance is transferred to one accounts payable account then it will be impossible to keep track of saperate payments to different vendors that;s why separate accounts are maintained.
Accounts payable are ALWAYS listed as a Liability. It is money the company OWES and therefore is a liability to that company.
An Accounts Payable is created when...