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What is the difference between credit & credit facilities?

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Question added by ahmed nabil , Lecturer in the special status , Registration books
Date Posted: 2014/03/16
sameer parkar
by sameer parkar , Senior Accountant , Al Andalus Trading Company

Credit is an entry made in account ledger to record changes in value resulting from business transactions. Credit represent increases in liabilities, equity and income and decreases in assets and expenses.

Credit facility is a  type of loan made in a business or corporate finance context. Specific types of credit facilities are: revolving credit, term loans, committed facilities, letters of credit and most retail credit accounts.

Ali Hammad Naeem
by Ali Hammad Naeem , SUPPORT CONSULTANT

Credit is amount which is not paid but the transaction is made with vendor.

 

Creadit facility or limit is an accounting term/payment term which usually vendors give to customer with maximum amount and period like A (vendor) gives credit facility to B (customer) for30 days and US5000. this means B can pay A in30 days upto for the purchases upto USD5,000 

Rashad Moursi
by Rashad Moursi , Financial and Administrative Officer & international Business Transformer, Hotel Owner Reprs. , Investment and financial

Creditors, entities liabilities to others. Credit facilities, facilities granted by banks, financial institutions to entites.

Yusuf Dalal
by Yusuf Dalal , General Accountant. , Gmamco Contracting LLC

Credit is a condition where the transaction is executed by the consideration or the payment for such transaction shall be paid later as decided on mutual agreed terms between the purchaser and Supplier. Such mutually agreed terms is what we called is Credit

 

Where as the Credit facilitiy can be defined as the supplier agrees to sell to the purchaser on credit to the extent of certain limit as decided by the supplier. This limit or facilities is called as credit facility.

 

 

Jimyrose Lariba
by Jimyrose Lariba , SALES COORDINATOR , Synaxis Readymix LLC

Credit is you buy something or you borrowed money but you didnt paid.

Credit Facility is you apply a term of credit from different supplier (kind of contract from supplier)

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