应付账款

應付賬款
yīngfù zhàngkuǎn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 accounts payable (AP)
  2. 2 money a company owes to suppliers

Examples

HSK 7-9
Yīngfù zhàngkuǎn de zhàngqī tōngcháng shì sānshí tiān.
Payment terms for accounts payable are typically thirty days.
HSK 7-9
Tā fùzé guǎnlǐ gōngsī de yīngfù zhàngkuǎn.
He's in charge of managing the company's accounts payable.

Tips

mistakes
Don't mix up 应付 (accounting sense: 'should pay') with the everyday 应付 meaning 'to deal with / cope' - same characters, different tone on . In AR/AP terms the reading is yīng (first tone).

Stroke Order

yīng
zhàng
kuǎn