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comptes des clients créditeurs

English translation: customers credit balances


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French term or phrase:comptes des clients créditeurs
English translation:customers credit balances
Entered by: Hattie Hill
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00:37 Jun 19, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Accounting
French term or phrase: comptes des clients créditeurs
This is the only time this term pops up in this 10,000 word document.

Examen de la balance âgée:
- Obtenir et rapprocher le solde du grand livre, le solde de la Balance âgée et le solde des comptes clients
- Vérifier que la balance âgée est analysée et annotée par le comptable clients
- Vérifier que l'analyse des **comptes des clients créditeurs** est effectuée par le comptable clients...

Is this just another way of saying "accounts receivable"?

Thanks!
Hattie Hill
Local time: 11:45
customers credit balances
Explanation:
it is debt for the company but to customers.

You should thus neither used receivable nor payable.

The point is that they "naturally" reduce the AR balance and thus biases their analysis. They mus be restated as liabilities in the financial statements.
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BusterK
Local time: 17:45
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Merci encore Buster !
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3customers credit balancesBusterK
3accounts of creditor customers
Robert Frankling


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accounts of creditor customers


Explanation:
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Note added at 25 mins (2007-06-19 01:03:11 GMT)
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The customers' accounts are in the black.

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Note added at 30 mins (2007-06-19 01:07:47 GMT)
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"...les comptables utilisent le mot créditeurs, plutôt que créanciers, pour désigner les personnes auxquelles l’entreprise doit des sommes."
http://ocaq.qc.ca/terminologie/affichage_bulletin.asp?ID=252

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customers credit balances


Explanation:
it is debt for the company but to customers.

You should thus neither used receivable nor payable.

The point is that they "naturally" reduce the AR balance and thus biases their analysis. They mus be restated as liabilities in the financial statements.

BusterK
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