Q. What is Accounts receivable?

Accounts receivable as well called trade accounts receivable are amounts owed to a business by customers. An account receivable occurs when a company performs a service or sells merchandise on credit. Customers usually provide no written evidence of indebtedness on sales invoices or delivery tickets except their signatures. Notice that the term net in the balance sheet of The Home Depot Exhibit 26. This term specify the possibility that the company may not collect some of its accounts receivable. In the balance sheet the accounts receivable amount is the total of the individual accounts receivable from customers shown in a subsidiary ledger or file.