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Avoirs à recevoir

English translation: amounts receivable

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French term or phrase:Avoirs à recevoir
English translation:amounts receivable
Entered by: Paul Lambert

08:41 Aug 18, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
French term or phrase: Avoirs à recevoir
Again, no further context (under "comptes fournisseurs" in an audit report)

- Avoirs à recevoir : Les avoirs à recevoir sur bons de sortie étaient sur certains dossiers insuffisamment gérés
Paul Lambert
United States
Local time: 07:29
amounts receivable
Explanation:
Just as vague as the French. Can they even be "assets" before you have them? The asset on the books is the right to receive these 'avoirs'.
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rkillings
United States
Local time: 07:29
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1amounts receivable
rkillings
4Credit notes
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4receivable assets
mohanv
4receivable for credit memo
joehlindsay


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Credit notes


Explanation:
An avoir is a reduction arranged between supplier and client, the latter draws up an avoir for the amount to be deducted from the invoice

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Iraq
Local time: 16:29
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lori Cirefice: absolutely, but what about the "à recevoir"
2 mins
neutral  joehlindsay: a credit note is the same thing as a credit memo, but wikipedia, and Wordreference.com seem to like credit memo(randum).
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
receivable assets


Explanation:
Refer receivables and other assets


    Reference: http://www.maureletprom.fr/spip.php?rubrique24
    Reference: http://www.maureletprom.fr/IMG/pdf/Annual_Report_2006.pdf
mohanv
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
amounts receivable


Explanation:
Just as vague as the French. Can they even be "assets" before you have them? The asset on the books is the right to receive these 'avoirs'.

rkillings
United States
Local time: 07:29
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agree  joehlindsay
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1 day 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
receivable for credit memo


Explanation:
These are indeed 'amounts to be received' but for 'credit memo' items as defined below. (or more formerly credit memorandum)

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From Wordreference online dictionary:

avoir nm credit memo



A Credit Memo (short for "credit memorandum") is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, listing the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services the seller provided the buyer, but the buyer did not receive or returned. It may be issued in the case of damaged goods, errors or allowances. In respect of the previously issued invoice, a Credit Memo will reduce or eliminate the amount the buyer has to pay.
The Credit Memo usually contains: PO #, Date, Billing Address, Shipping Address, Terms of Payment, List of products with quantities and prices. Usually it references the original Invoice and sometimes states the reason for issue.
Credit Memos are often called Credit Notes or just Credits.
The seller usually issues a Credit Memo for the same or lower amount than the invoice, and then repays the money to the buyer or sets it off against a balance due from other transactions.
The term may also refer to the document provided by a bank to a depositor to indicate the depositor's balance is being increased because of an event other than a deposit, such as the collection by the bank of the depositor's note receivable.

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