Sep 13, 2006 16:08
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Spanish term

cuenta de compras aprovisionamientos

Spanish to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) business/accounting
thank you!

Discussion

Jane Ashford (X) (asker) Sep 13, 2006:
Hi, this is the sentence it comes from: A modo informativo las principales cuentas que se ven afectadas por esta situación son las de existencias, variación de existencias, ventas de producto terminado y compras aprovisionamientos.
thanks for your help! (o:
Ronnie McKee Sep 13, 2006:
Are there more accounts with the aprovisionamientos term? Can you tell if they are accounts dealing with allocating/reserving for future use, or if they are dealing with the supplies/procurement (expense)?

Proposed translations

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supplies purchase account

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-09-13 16:20:57 GMT)
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It sounds like it is the account for booking the purchase of supplies. Maybe just supplies account.
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7 mins

pre-purchase account

Agree with Marian. To be sure I would need more context.



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Note added at 11 mins (2006-09-13 16:20:45 GMT)
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Provisions - accruals and pre-payments
Note from asker:
thanks Adam. Can't seem to put an addition on my question at the moment... but it's from a list of types of account affected by a particular procedure. Not much context there but it's from a document on company accounts (financial, personnel, etc)
thanks Adam!
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10 mins

procurement account

that's the way I'd say it
saludos!

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Note added at 15 mins (2006-09-13 16:24:04 GMT)
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According to my Banking Dictionary R. Gil Esteban "compras and aprovisionamientos" means procurement.

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Note added at 23 mins (2006-09-13 16:32:47 GMT)
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procurement = the activities performed by a purchaser or his/her representative for obtaining an item, product or service
Note from asker:
thanks!
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5 mins

purchases account provisions

doesn't make much sense out of context... if it's a financial statement:
purchases account - provisions

but context would really help...

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Note added at 55 mins (2006-09-13 17:04:27 GMT)
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given the context, I would call it 'purchasing account"

purchasing department home pageCOMMONLY USED PURCHASING ACCOUNT CODES 45XX – Other Supplies • 4510 – Supplies: Includes instructional and non-instructional items that are expendable and ...
www.smccd.net/purchasing/policies.htm - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
Note from asker:
thanks Marian. It's just from a list of types of accounts affected by a certain procedure...
thanks Marian!
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