Sentence examples for to receivables 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 2007, for every dollar of reported revenue, it appears that Sotheby's collected 51 cents in cash, and added 49 cents to receivables.
The company has even resorted to "receivables funding arrangements" - selling invoices at a discount to improve cashflow, an extreme measure not normally associated with a FTSE-100 company.
So Nabbr turned to Receivables Exchange, which since late 2008 has offered an online marketplace that allows businesses to sell their receivables to institutional investors, with the buyer gaining the right to then collect what is owed on that invoice.
The ratios compare sales to receivables; sales to earnings; operating income to long-term debt; cost of goods sold to inventory; depreciation and amortization to capital expenditures; and cash flow from operations (less any tax savings from stock options) to earnings.
Martin Macmillan is the CEO of Pollen VC, a fintech company that created the concept of revenue recycling to provide receivables financing to app developers globally together with growth consulting services.
We had to raise debt in Brazil in order to factor the receivables to merchants, because prepayments are a big part of the market.
Sprint, based in Kansas City, Mo., said it planned to extend its accounts receivable program to include receivables of its Sprint PCS Group wireless telephone unit, giving Sprint access to more than $500 million of additional cash.
Card issuers still have access to money, thanks to a securitization machine that allows them to bundle receivables and sell them as securities.
Sara Lee, which is based in Chicago, has entered into agreements allowing it to shift its receivables to a third party, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Participating suppliers will also be able to sell their receivables to the government for cash, which will increase their operating funds and also make it easier to borrow money on the private market.
Eventually the company needs to turn receivables into cash, and that's not going to happen unless the wholesale customers are happy with the goods and are able to sell them to end users.
