Accounting and Bookkeeping

Accounts Payable

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Updated: 
Feb 04, 2019

An account payable is an outstanding bill from a vendor that the organization has an obligation to pay. The following examples show in a journal entry format how an account payable is created and how the account payable is removed when the check is cut to pay the invoice.

 

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