Receivables are rights/claims that individuals or companies have to other parties, whether individuals/companies, to receive money in the future as a result of past transactions. So for businesses, receivables do not only occur due to credit sales, which we know as trade receivables or accounts receivable. Apart from that, there are also notes receivable or notes receivable which are formal letters issued as a form of debt measurement. Both debts, both account receivable and note receivable, will be recorded on the balance sheet as current assets. There are also types of receivables that arise not from business operational activities, such as interest receivables, receivables resulting from the sale of securities, machinery, and other fixed assets. Other receivables will be recorded as non-current assets.
