Commercial transactions play a particularly important role in the activity of economic units. These operations generate income and expenditure, affect amounts owed to suppliers and amounts receivable from customers and always involve a link between two economic operators, one called the supplier, for whom the operation represents a sale, and the other called the customer, for whom the same operation represents a purchase. Payables and receivables arising from the enterprise's relations with natural and legal persons outside the enterprise as well as with natural persons inside the enterprise are reflected mainly through class 4 "Accounts receivable from third parties". The concept of debt refers to an undertaking by a specific person to pay a sum of money, deliver a good, execute a work or render a service. A natural or legal person who owes a debt is generally called a debtor. A debt is the right of a person to claim from a third party the payment of money, the delivery of a good, the performance of a service or the execution of a work. The holder of a claim is generically referred to as the creditor. Receivables and payables are valued at the time they are entered in the balance sheet, when they are entered in the inventory, at the year-end and when they are settled (when they are written off). In order to break down the information on debts on purchases according to the structure of debts and receivables, the following accounts have been entered in group 40 ʺTrade accounts payable and similar accountsthe accountsʺ 401 ʺSuppliersʺ, 403 ʺAccounts payableʺ, 404 ʺSuppliers of immovable propertyʺ, 405 ʺAccounts payable for fixed assetsʺ, 408 ʺSuppliers - invoices not yet invoicedʺ and 409 ʺSuppliers – debtorsʺ have been introduced. The last account is a receivables account with an asset accounting function, while all other accounts have a liability accounting function. In addition to liabilities, enterprises may also record receivables from their suppliers. These are generated by two categories of transactions: advances to suppliers and the receipt from the supplier of packaging circulating on the refund system.

In the case of using the permanent inventory method, inventory accounts are debited upon entry into management with the acquisition cost and credited upon exit from management or upon disposal with the value of the same cost, calculated according to one of the methods for evaluating inventory exits, such as: CMP, FIFO, LIFO or the "standard price" method. The last method takes into account the predetermined price used in the evaluation and registration of stocks at fixed prices, the establishment of which was done previously, based on the average prices of the respective stocks realized in the previous period. This becomes the registration price in the accounting only if the existing price differences in relation to the purchase cost or the production cost, as the case may be, are reflected distinctly in the accounting. The standard prices must be updated at least once a year, depending on the evolution of prices.

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Human development in the European Union remains uneven, and it is still unclear how economic, social, environmental, and institutional conditions jointly shape it. Understanding this question is essential for EU cohesion and sustainability policy, since Member States differ widely in governance capacity and development trajectories. This study proposes and empirically tests an extended Triple Bottom Line framework in which governance is treated as a fourth sustainability subsystem and examines its influence on the Human Development Index (HDI) in the 27 EU member states over 2000–2024 (675 country-year observations). Composite dimension indices are constructed through principal component analysis and validated with KMO and Bartlett diagnostics, and the analysis combines two-way fixed-effects models, Mundlak within–between decomposition, dynamic panels, a parsimonious system GMM estimator, and Driscoll–Kraay standard errors. The institutional dimension is the most robust positive correlate of HDI across all specifications, and its long-run effect remains significant. The environmental dimension is negatively and significantly associated with HDI, revealing a development–environment tension rather than a welfare effect, while CO₂ emissions display a positive coefficient in disaggregated models, reflecting development-stage and energy-structure effects. The economic dimension matters mainly as a long-run structural difference between countries, not as short-run within-country variation, and institutional and environmental effects are more pronounced in Central and Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. The findings imply that EU policies aimed at strengthening governance quality and supporting a just green transition—including the European Green Deal, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), and cohesion policy instruments—are central levers for sustaining human development.