Accounts Receivable

Topic

A financial metric representing money owed to a company by its customers. Nvidia's rising accounts receivable is discussed as a potential concern but explained as a symptom of a massive and complex product transition.


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Summary

Accounts receivable (AR) represent legally enforceable claims a business holds for goods or services provided but not yet paid for by customers. This process encompasses customer onboarding, invoicing, collections, and cash posting, with AR typically presented as invoices due within an agreed timeframe and appearing as a current asset on a company's balance sheet. Accounts receivable differ from notes receivable, which are based on formal legal instruments like promissory notes, and significantly impact a company's liquidity, working capital efficiency, and cash flow. In a discussion on the All-In Podcast, Nvidia's increased accounts receivable was attributed to its complex product transition from Hopper to Blackwell GPUs, with the company's investment in CoreWeave seen as a crucial strategy to counter major cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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  • Type

    Legally enforceable claims for payment

  • Impact

    Company liquidity, working capital efficiency, cash flow, operational effectiveness, customer satisfaction

  • Purpose

    Optimize billing, payments, and collections; minimize time to get paid; eliminate bad debt risk

  • Distinction

    Differs from notes receivable (formal legal instruments)

  • Process Components

    Customer onboarding, invoicing, collections, deductions, exception management, cash posting

  • Balance Sheet Location

    Current asset

  • Financial Classification

    Asset

Timeline
  • Nvidia's increased Accounts Receivable is attributed to its complex and massive product transition from Hopper (GPU) architecture to the next-generation Blackwell GPUs, as discussed on the All-In Podcast. (Source: related_documents)

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  • Nvidia's investment in CoreWeave is contextualized as a strategy to counter the market power of major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), a topic discussed in relation to Accounts Receivable on the All-In Podcast. (Source: related_documents)

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Accounts receivable

Accounts receivable, abbreviated as AR or A/R, are legally enforceable claims for payment held by a business for goods supplied or services rendered that customers have ordered but not paid for. The accounts receivable process involves customer onboarding, invoicing, collections, deductions, exception management, and finally, cash posting after the payment is collected. Accounts receivable are generally in the form of invoices raised by a business and delivered to the customer for payment within an agreed time frame. Accounts receivable is shown in a balance sheet as an asset. It is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of a customer for goods and services that the customer has ordered. These may be distinguished from notes receivable, which are debts created through formal legal instruments called promissory notes. Accounts receivable can impact the liquidity of a company.

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