The accounts receivable department at an office usually consists of several different people working together to make sure that every bill is paid, every employee is paid, and all the money in the company makes sense amoung many other things depending on the company. Then again, it could be a small business where just one person is handling all these things due to there not being as many things
. to handle. An accounts receivable job description outline in most cases involves maintaining customers files, dealing with the checks that come in from customers and making deposits to the company's bank, dealing with all the billing issues that come in like debits or credits owed to the customer or company owes to eachother, and all around maintaining an entire billing system to make sure that the company is paying their bills to their vendors etc, and that the company is being paid by all of their customers. This is a very important position to a large or small company due to it being one of the main reason the company can stay in business.
