Bills Payable

  

“Don’t you mean ‘payable bill’?”

Nope. Bills payable refers to the short-term borrowing by lil’ banks from the country’s central bank (the Fed in the US). Okay, okay, sure...it can also be used in the small-biz world to mean “accounts payable."

So...see Accounts Payable.

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