ACCOUNTING 101

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reduce Accounts Receivable by $2,500 and reduce Sales by the same amount, as if it never happened. In the world of cash-based accounting, technically, those sales aren’t recorded until cash changes hands. The same idea applies to Accounts Payable (by adjusting the amounts posted to each asset or expense, for example).

  Account, Payable, Receivable, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable