Accounts payable
Money a company owes to its suppliers |
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Accounts receivableMoney owed to a company by its customers
Accounts receivable turnover
The ratio of net credit sales to average accounts receivable, a measure of how quickly customers pay their bills.
Nostro accounts
As there is no dollar cleraing and settlement system outside the USA, all eurodoolar transactions must take place through banks in New York using their clearing house system. Therefore all banks operating outside the USA and dealing in eurodollars must hold demand deposit accounts with US-based banks in New York through which receipts and payments can be effected.
These accounts, known as Nostro accounts, are also used to settle banks' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to ...
Payable through drafts
A method of making payment that is used to maintain control over payments made on behalf of the firm by personnel in noncentral locations. The payer's bank delivers the payable through draft to the payer, which must approve it and return it to the bank before payment can be received.
