The amount owed by customers is considered an asset, specifically classified as accounts receivable on the balance sheet. This represents money that a company expects to receive in the future for goods or services provided. In contrast, liabilities are obligations the company owes to others. Therefore, amounts owed by customers indicate potential future cash inflow, categorizing them as an asset.
yes- (it is an asset)
increase an asset, increase a liability
decrease in asset and decrease in liability
Accounts Receivable are considered an asset. They represent money owed to a company by its customers for goods or services delivered but not yet paid for. As an asset, they reflect future cash inflows and contribute to the overall value of a company's balance sheet.
It increases the amount owed, because creditors would be credited
yes- (it is an asset)
increase an asset, increase a liability
decrease in asset and decrease in liability
Liability
Accounts Receivable are considered an asset. They represent money owed to a company by its customers for goods or services delivered but not yet paid for. As an asset, they reflect future cash inflows and contribute to the overall value of a company's balance sheet.
liability
The total amount of money owed by customers to our business is the sum of all outstanding balances that customers have yet to pay.
It increases the amount owed, because creditors would be credited
Amounts owed to a business that are on a credit basis are considered a current asset on the books and
Amounts owed to a business that are on a credit basis are considered a current asset on the books and
indicates an increase in the amount owed to creditors.
Anything "owed" is a liability to the company until it is paid.Gathering what I can from the question, I am assuming the "vendor" would be a person/company that supplies a product that another company resales for profit. In other words it is their Inventory, When the merchandise is recieved, at the moment of receipt if the amount isn't paid and is put on account (owed) then journal entry is adebit to Inventorycredit to Account Payable.Since this is a debt it is recorded as a liability, once it is paid however, the transaction goes as followsdebit to Account Payablecredit to CashThe inventory itself remains an asset until it is sold, then the asset decreases and then and only then is the cost initially paid recorded as an expense.