Business Definition for: bills payable
bills payable
- trade obligations of a firm, such as a trade acceptance or
banker's acceptance
, payable at maturity.
- a bank's indebtedness to other banks, principally an
advance
from a Federal Reserve Bank, backed by the bank's own promissory note and a pledge of government securities as collateral.See also
borrowed funds
.
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