How to Use account receivable in a Sentence

account receivable

noun

• The airline has booked the compensation in accounts receivable but hasn’t yet got the cash.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• This reveals how many days' worth of sales are represented by the current accounts receivable.
  — Dallas News, 30 June 2019
• One of the most effective ways to optimize cash flow is by streamlining accounts receivable.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The university came up $4 million short on student accounts receivable and about $2 million short on other line items last year.
  — Emily Walkenhorst, Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2019
• In fact, 78% of finance leaders told us that accounts receivable surprises are forcing strategic shifts.
  — Barrett Smith, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• Monitor funds weekly, tighten accounts receivable with stricter payment terms, and follow up on late invoices.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
• The key is to control inventory, optimize the sales cycle, and reduce accounts receivable.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• Most are standard reports that correspond to the site's core functions, such as sales and customers, expenses and vendors, accounts receivable and payable, and sales tax.
  — PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
• Delays in customer payments can put real pressure on your cash flow, but there are simple ways to improve your accounts receivable (AR) process.
  — Joe Camberato, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Skill gaps become a quantified risk that demands the same rigor as inventory management or accounts receivable.
  — Marko Horvat, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• When a company's accounts receivable are growing faster than sales, that indicates possible channel stuffing.
  — Dallas News, 30 June 2019
• The increase in assets was primarily due to cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and inventory.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025
• Monitor accounts receivable Create an accounts receivable aging schedule each month that lists the dollar amounts you’re owed based on the invoice date.
  — Block Advisors Contributor, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
• In accounts receivable, that means payment matching, dunning sequences and basic dispute resolution.
  — David Zwick, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The settlement includes the transfer of customer information to Gen and the release of claims to outstanding accounts receivable.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2025
• Lenders will want collateral, typically in the form of accounts receivable, inventory or equipment.
  — Danielle Higley, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
• First Brands also used a financial arrangement known as factoring, which involved selling its accounts receivable to retail partners in exchange for near-term cash.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• Here are insights that any SaaS firm can harness to improve accounts receivable (AR) results and revenue quality.
  — Dean Kaplan, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
• The council voted unanimously to give a raise to an accounts receivable clerk being paid $6,000 less than someone else in the clerk-treasurer’s doing the same work.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
• It’s modeled after factoring, the commercial practice going back into antiquity in which a company sells its accounts receivable — what it’s owed but has not yet been paid — at a discount to get cash in hand.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
• Outside leadership changes, the utility has also struggled to turn over critical data to its independent auditor, such as accounts receivables from water bills.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 5 June 2018
• This means paying careful attention not only to your bank balance but your accounts receivable, depreciation, expenses, and other financial metrics.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Porras said the lack of credit can force Latino business owners to make riskier financial decisions, such as relying on personal credit cards to grow their business, or taking out a loan on their accounts receivable.
  — Kate Cimini, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2020
• Accounts Receivable Cycle Start by reviewing your accounts receivable cycle.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Regarding risk, the court found that the bottlers bore incrementally greater risk than the supply points because of their more robust distribution functions, greater working capital intensity, and higher accounts receivable risk.
  — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• But the company’s presentation to investors at that time indicated that its budget called for the company to obtain a working capital loan of up to $40 million secured by a first lien on the company’s accounts receivable.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• Moone continued bouncing from financial aid, undergraduate admissions, the dean of students and accounts receivable, meeting multiple times with each, according to a timeline provided by the university.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
• Elevating The Customer Experience Finance teams, namely those tasked with accounts receivable, are responsible for ensuring that customers pay their bills on time.
  — Justin Main, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• New options include a customizable KPI report and multiple Dashboards that zero in on accounting metrics such as cash flow, profitability, and accounts receivable.
  — Kathy Yakal, PC Magazine, 6 May 2026
• His administration has been selling off debt held by government entities, including accounts receivable, for a pittance of its worth, the United States officials said, and has pocketed the cash, leaving Venezuela’s finances in shambles.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2018