Talk:Accounts receivable

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if the B/S provide the amount of debtors, bill receivable, deposits paid and prepayments and other receivables,can i count on all for account receivable? pls help answer me if you are accounting profession.

RM: Yes. These are all receivables primarely generated by your sales. Or ALL in direct link with a transaction based somewere in your sales ledger. Remeber that each of your credit figures must match a debit.. 16-04-2008 (EU) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.18.17.91 (talk) 10:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggest that you hire an accountant instead of freeloading on an on-line encyclopedia. Legis 13:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

My understanding of accounts receivable is as follows:

Accounts Receivable = Trade Debtors = Sales ledger

The first lines of the article "Accounts receivable is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of customers who owe money to a person, company or organization for goods and services that have been provided to the customer. This is typically done in a one person organization by writing an invoice and mailing or delivering it to the customer" does not make any sense to me. An invoice is a transaction, accounts receivable is a ledger? NilssonDenver 16:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accounts receivable vs Account receivables

I've heard the term "accounts receivable" and "account receivables" used interchangeably and came to Wikipedia hoping to learn which term is correct. Unfortunately, the article, too, uses both terms. I suspect that "account receivables" is an improper term. But perhaps "account receivables" is, in fact, a valid term when one is referring to a single debtor that owes on multiple ledger items (i.e. one account, multiple receivables)? Let's get to the bottom of this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.72.250.165 (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

... "accounts(plurial) receivable(singular)" and "account(singular) receivables(plurial)".. it's all correct mate... (:-))) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.18.17.91 (talk) 10:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Grammatically speaking, "accounts receivable" is correct. Account is the noun, and receivable is the adjective describing it -- "accounts which are owing" -- and because there are several, the noun is pluralised. Account receivables is only grammatically correct if the entire expression "account receivable" is considered a proper noun. --Jtgibson (talk) 04:35, 28 September 2008 (UTC)