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Dynamics 365 Accounts Payable - Simply Explained
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- Aug 22, 2026
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Summary
A supplier invoice arrives. The goods may already be sitting in your warehouse or the service may already be complete—but what actually needs to happen before money leaves the company? Dynamics 365 Accounts Payable connects vendor records, invoices, purchase orders, receiving, invoice matching, approvals, payment runs, bank accounts, and settlement into one controlled financial process. In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters explains how Dynamics 365 Finance manages the complete journey from receiving a vendor bill to recording the final payment. WHAT IS DYNAMICS 365 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE? Accounts Payable tracks money your company owes vendors for goods and services it has already purchased. Think of it as the payment office inside a large company. Bills arrive, somebody verifies them, the appropriate people approve them, finance determines when they should be paid, and finally the payment is sent to the supplier. Dynamics 365 keeps these individual activities connected so finance can follow the complete history of each vendor invoice. WHY ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MATTERS Most businesses don't pay suppliers immediately when they place an order. A supplier delivers goods or completes a service and then sends an invoice. The company now owes that amount, but the money hasn't left the bank account yet. That unpaid amount becomes a liability. A business can therefore have significant cash in its bank account while simultaneously owing substantial amounts to suppliers. Accounts Payable gives finance visibility into both what has already been paid and what will need to be paid in the future. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE VS ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE The names sound similar, but they represent opposite sides of company cash flow. Accounts Payable = Money your company owes vendors. Accounts Receivable = M…