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Payable

That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.

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Due 84% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Due 84% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Indebtedness 76% connected

The state of being indebted.

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Liability 76% connected

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

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Collectible 92% connected

Capable of being collected.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Good will noun · 78% connection

(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible…

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Goodwill noun · 78% connection

(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible…

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Inventory noun · 78% connection

(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods

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Limited review noun · 78% connection

(accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of fin…

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Review noun · 78% connection

(accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of fin…

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Straight-line method noun · 78% connection

(accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the ass…

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Straight-line method of depreciation noun · 78% connection

(accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the ass…

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Unearned income noun · 78% connection

(accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet)

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Unearned revenue noun · 78% connection

(accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet)

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Write-down noun · 78% connection

(accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset

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Write-off noun · 78% connection

(accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset

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Balance sheet noun · 78% connection

a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets

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Earnings report noun · 78% connection

a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period

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Income noun · 78% connection

the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

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Income statement noun · 78% connection

a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period

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Operating statement noun · 78% connection

a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period

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Appreciate verb · 78% connection

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Arrogation noun · 78% connection

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.

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Baptist noun · 78% connection

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be adm…

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Blackmail noun · 78% connection

Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.

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Communalism noun · 78% connection

A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederat…

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Conscionably adverb · 78% connection

Reasonably; justly.

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Cost verb · 78% connection

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, s…

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Credit verb · 78% connection

To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit…

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Desert noun · 78% connection

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Deservedly adverb · 78% connection

According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.

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Drawback noun · 78% connection

Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitt…

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Enthymeme noun · 78% connection

An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; a…

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Equally adverb · 78% connection

In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justl…

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Equitably adverb · 78% connection

In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.

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Guilty superl. · 78% connection

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed…

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Hire noun · 78% connection

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service,…

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Irreprovable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright.

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Judgment verb · 78% connection

The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly…

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