Trade payables
AccountingAmounts owed to suppliers for goods and services received in the ordinary course of business.
In plain terms
Funding with no interest line, no covenant and no credit rating, and none of it appears in borrowings, net debt to EBITDA or debt-to-equity. It is repayable on demand in the only sense that matters: the supplier can stop supplying.
Read the full lesson →Trade payables ageing schedule
AccountingThe Schedule III note splitting trade payables by period outstanding from the due date, and separately between micro and small enterprise creditors and others, with disputed dues shown apart.
In plain terms
The disclosure that turns one balance into a story. Bargaining power keeps almost everything inside a year; a filling one-to-two-year bucket suggests the terms were taken rather than agreed.
Read the full lesson →Reverse factoring
AccountingAlso called: Supply chain finance
An arrangement in which a bank pays a company’s approved supplier invoices early at a discount and the company repays the bank on the original or an extended due date.
In plain terms
The obligation has become bank funding while continuing to read as trade payables. The tell is days payable rising with no supplier friction at all — because the supplier has already been paid. The question worth asking is what happens if the bank withdraws the facility.
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