应付账款

應付賬款
yīngfùzhàngkuǎn
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

Yīngfù zhàngkuǎn de zhàngqī tōngcháng shì sānshí tiān.
Payment terms for accounts payable are typically thirty days.
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 yìngfù 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