Sentence examples for Receivable from inspiring English sources
noun
A debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business
- One man's receivable is another man's payable.
In a terse statement, the office of Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general, declared the claims "not receivable" because of the organisation's privileges and immunities.Most scientists who have studied the matter have concluded that UN peacekeepers unwittingly brought cholera to Haiti in 2010.
Another incentive to return home: a cut of the migrants' wages is placed in a Canadian pension fund, receivable only if they return to Mexico.
Michael Lynch of Strategic Energy & Economic Research, an industry consultancy, explains that, under the oil industry's murky accounting practices, "shifting a project from proven to probable is like moving it out of a cash account to accounts receivable.
The merger, effected by Mr U Previti and based on balance sheets drawn up as at December 27th 1978, was the answer.Mr U Previti said there would be an interest-bearing receivable, due from Fininvest Srl, of 17.69 billion lire in Fininvest Roma's balance sheet at December 27th 1978 (ie, the payment made by Fininvest Roma at step 8 of table 1 must have been included in that balance).
These obligations were transferred periodically to Mr Bennett's firm; Refco's accounts then reflected a receivable from that entity.
They say that since late last year Mr Bennett had "actively participated" in a scheme to hide as much as $545m, with the money cleverly repaid just before routine audits.The initial internal review found a receivable owed to Refco by a firm controlled by Mr Bennett.
Before the Durbin-Delahunt bill, the biggest test came in December 2000, when LTV, a steel company, filed for bankruptcy and tried to retain money it received on inventory and receivables that it had already in effect sold to two special-purpose vehicles for $650m.
They hold credit balances with CIT after selling their receivables to the firm but receiving only a portion of the payment upfront.
A bank on the receiving end of mortgage repayments or credit-card receivables can do something similar: bundle the loans up and sell them, or use them as collateral to get funding, which it can then use to issue more loans.
When I discovered that their accounts-receivable guy is named Flanders, I decided to step in and challenge the whole company to a Cartoon-Off.
Having enough money for R.& D., manufacturing, inventory and account-receivable financing usually does not leave enough for setting up your own factory and/or subcontracting domestic production.
