In the Accounts payable section, you track all purchases and outgoing expenditures to vendors.
You can set up vendor groups, vendors, posting profiles, various payment options, parameters concerning vendors and purchase orders, prices and discounts, charges, supplementary items, deliveries and destinations, promissory notes, and so on.
Depending on your setup, you can then perform many tasks that are related to vendors and purchases. For example, you can create and manage purchase orders and planned purchase orders, use various kinds of journals, and settle vendor invoices.
The following topics provide information about accounts payable.