ECOLAB INC.: change in accounts payable

What this measure means

The cash flow adjustment for the change in payables during the period. A positive value under this concept means payables grew and added to operating cash flow.

Exact concept: us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayable. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Related financial histories

• ECOLAB INC.: total assets
• ECOLAB INC.: total liabilities
• ECOLAB INC.: stockholders equity
• ECOLAB INC.: cash and cash equivalents
• ECOLAB INC.: net income or loss
• ECOLAB INC.: operating cash flow
• ECOLAB INC.: capital expenditure payments
• ECOLAB INC.: contract revenue excluding tax
• ECOLAB INC.: financing cash flow
• ECOLAB INC.: investing cash flow
• ECOLAB INC.: retained earnings or deficit
• ECOLAB INC.: basic weighted-average shares
• ECOLAB INC.: diluted weighted-average shares
• ECOLAB INC.: basic earnings per share
• ECOLAB INC.: diluted earnings per share
• ECOLAB INC.: income tax expense or benefit
• ECOLAB INC.: net property, plant and equipment
• ECOLAB INC.: share-based compensation expense
• ECOLAB INC.: operating income or loss
• ECOLAB INC.: current assets
• ECOLAB INC.: interest expense
• ECOLAB INC.: current liabilities
• ECOLAB INC.: current accounts payable
• ECOLAB INC.: goodwill carrying amount
• ECOLAB INC.: net finite-lived intangible assets
• ECOLAB INC.: net current accounts receivable
• ECOLAB INC.: common-stock repurchase payments
• ECOLAB INC.: net inventory
• ECOLAB INC.: selling, general and administrative expense
• ECOLAB INC.: research and development expense
• ECOLAB INC.: common shares outstanding
• ECOLAB INC.: cash including restricted cash
• ECOLAB INC.: accumulated other comprehensive income or loss
• ECOLAB INC.: total equity including noncontrolling interests
• ECOLAB INC.: operating lease right-of-use asset
• ECOLAB INC.: operating lease liability
• ECOLAB INC.: long-term debt
• ECOLAB INC.: gross property, plant and equipment
• ECOLAB INC.: accumulated depreciation on property, plant and equipment
• ECOLAB INC.: net intangible assets excluding goodwill
• ECOLAB INC.: other noncurrent assets
• ECOLAB INC.: other noncurrent liabilities
• ECOLAB INC.: net deferred tax assets
• ECOLAB INC.: net deferred tax liabilities
• ECOLAB INC.: pre-tax income or loss from continuing operations
• ECOLAB INC.: profit or loss including noncontrolling interests
• ECOLAB INC.: comprehensive income or loss
• ECOLAB INC.: net income available to common stockholders
• ECOLAB INC.: depreciation expense
• ECOLAB INC.: depreciation, depletion and amortization
• ECOLAB INC.: amortization of intangible assets
• ECOLAB INC.: nonoperating income or expense
• ECOLAB INC.: current income tax expense or benefit
• ECOLAB INC.: deferred income tax expense or benefit
• ECOLAB INC.: interest paid, net
• ECOLAB INC.: income taxes paid, net
• ECOLAB INC.: operating lease payments
• ECOLAB INC.: change in accounts receivable
• ECOLAB INC.: change in inventories

Inspect the source

Entity

ECOLAB INC. / CIK 0000031462

Captured

2026-09-19T14:46:19.817Z

SEC response SHA-256

d1bde94130ee5039309a29a510152a8ae865bac9075851449780c3c9fcd6c135

Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON

Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

Use this in research

A financial period ends before its results become public. Use the filing date as a minimum availability boundary, inspect amendments, and retain the original filing vintage when testing historical signals. This latest-filed selection can contain information unavailable at the time.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000031462.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))