On Creditor is a creditor of the company, usually a supplier. What a company owes to its creditors is called liabilities in accounting.
Background
The creditor is the counterpart to the debtor. The term comes from the Latin „credere“, which means „to trust“ or „to believe“. The creditor accounting is the supplementary accounting for liabilities. It includes sales by each supplier, purchased quantities, payment terms, supplier accounts, discounts, bonuses, and balances. When a company purchases raw materials on target, the raw material inventory and the liabilities from deliveries and services increase. When the company pays the invoice, the bank balance and liabilities decrease.
In SAP Business One
SAP Business One lists creditors as business partners of the type "supplier". The supplier has the authority for all purchase invoices. The entry invoice records the obligation towards the supplier. The supplier's reconciliation account provides the business partner master data (Accounting tab). It can be changed in the document. The final payment concludes the document chain in the purchasing process. It is based on the open entry invoices and the entry credits without invoice reference. If a final payment is not reconciled with the entry invoice, the risk exists that the invoice will be paid a second time. The payment assistant proposes invoices for payment until a specified maximum amount is reached. In the recommendation report, the user can select individual invoices or business partners.
Demarcation
Liabilities to credit institutions (typical bank debts) constitute a separate item and are not included in the liabilities from deliveries and services. Related entries: Debtor, Debtor Creditor, Initial payment (SAP Business One).
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