They might prepare invoices and keep track of overdue accounts.

Before another dawn broke over Washington, the soldier meant to close that overdue account and wipe the ledger clean.

Bill and receive payments as quickly as possible, and follow up on overdue accounts in order to keep the cash flow moving.

Notices of overdue accounts from the lumberyard, the paint store and the plumbing subcontractor began piling up on my desk.

I handle overdue accounts."

"Long overdue accounts," murmured Jeremy.

To prevent the power from being turned off to homes of overdue accounts during the winter, a US $2,000 cash reserve was set up with the utility company.

The right to charge interest applies to overdue accounts relating to a sale of goods, the hiring of goods or to a supply of services.

Ms. Canty said that overdue accounts had dropped to $580 million from $610 million, and that significant progress had been made in collecting long-overdue bills.

In early May, Mr Muliaga had contacted Mercury Energy while his wife was in hospital to discuss the overdue account.

And because creditors almost always regard fresher debts as easier to collect, some creditors are placing their overdue accounts with collection agencies sooner than they used to.

Other countries where UK exporters experienced an above-average rise in overdue accounts included Belgium (60 per cent up) and France (55 per cent up).

Consumer Action said that in the last two or three years some companies had been charging penalty interest rates on overdue accounts that were on average 4.5 percentage points higher than standard rates.

Co-ops and condos have always had occasional overdue accounts arising from marital or financial troubles, illness or death, but in recent months delinquencies have grown noticeably, management officials say, although there are no centralized statistics.

The daddy had, no doubt through some oversight, neglected to mention the matter of his long overdue account with Mr Moore and the tall boy was forced to pay this before the shopkeeper would part with the goods.

CAMCO was a debt buyer focused on long overdue accounts - sometimes over a decade old, i.e. well beyond the statute of limitations - that it purchased for less than a penny on the dollar.

And with a keystroke or two the manager can call up the name of every customer with an overdue account, sorted by the length of time it is past due, and the name and phone number of the deadbeat.

The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament enabling businesses to charge other business customers interest on overdue accounts and to obtain compensation.

Then we'll land with the additional troops of which I have requested a short-term loan and put paid in full to the now overdue account of these scabrous Shawnees and those poxy, devil-spawn, French byblows of a spavined camel.

And she might leap at the chance to give him a bruise if there was a chance of a piece of money to square all overdue accounts and have enough left over to move along to a place where Crane Watts could start all over again.

Actor William Bakewell remembered that Rose's "generosity and easygoing approach to merchandising stimulated a kind of mañana attitude on the part of many of his customers resulting in a host of long overdue accounts which finally put him out of business."

During this period, some of his paintings were purchased by a wealthy New York collector, Ichabod T. Williams, which enabled him to pay an overdue account with his landlady and continue with his studies, his father having ceased his allowance.

The company, which until its privatisation in 1991 was the Short-term Export Credit Division of the Export Credits Guarantees Department, also revealed that the value of overdue accounts in the EC rose by 36 per cent in the past year.

Last year, in "Out of Sight," based on an Elmore Leonard novel, he played Snoopy, a psychopathic killer and drug dealer who could switch in a minute from lighthearted banter to handing out guns and hatchets to his gang, preparing to slaughter a customer with an overdue account.