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Simply stated, accounts payable is the term used to describe the amounts owed by an organization to its creditors. More technically put, accounts payable pays third parties or employees by scheduling and preparing checks, resolving purchase orders, insuring credit is received for outstanding bills, and issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments. Accounts payable, often abbreviated “A/P,” also tracks budget expenses.
Outstanding balances can sink even the biggest businesses - which is why it is vital for accounts payable to be overseen by a financial expert with experience in A/P. Ideally, this financial expert (from either inside or outside the company) is qualified and capable of analyzing an organization’s cash flow. To be successful in this role, an A/P Specialist maintains meticulous records of outstanding payables. Effective monitoring practices should be put into place to make sure that payments are made to vendors in a timely manner, while also protecting businesses against unintentional overpayment.
Weekly report monitoring, payment oversight, and organized invoices allow the best Accounts Payable professionals to help businesses avoid hidden costs, interest charges, and late fees – while giving an accurate idea of actual cash flow.
Your background may have to include:
Accountants provide financial information about the organization to management. Accountants must apply accounting principles and handle work that is analytical, evaluative, and advisory in nature and that requires an understanding of both accounting theory and practice. The accountant also:
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What is the difference between accounts receivable and accounts payable? You can think of A/R and A/P, and the job responsibilities involved with each, as the inverse of the other. While accounts receivable acts on behalf of the assets a company has a right to collect; accounts payable keeps busy with the outstanding bills a company needs to pay out. Accounts receivable, as a more externally focused function, handles billing and the collection of owed monies in a timely manner. The accounts payable function, being more internally focused, owns the disbursement of funds to pay the bills owed to third parties. But both accounts receivable and accounts payable must work together to ensure the organization continually collects the appropriate funds from its customers in order to meet its own financial obligations.
Depending on the path, accounts payable specialists can become:
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