Discover how accounts payable function as short-term liabilities, not expenses, and learn how they impact a company's financial position and cash flow management.

Financial data are most often recorded using a technique called double-entry accounting. This method relies upon a mathematical construct called the accounting equation. Any time an adjustment is made ...

Notes payable is accounting-speak for promissory notes, written commitments that say you've borrowed money and have to pay it back. Like other outstanding debts, notes payable affect your bottom line.

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