Why might the time lag for intramultinational firm accounts receivable and payable (that is, all received or

Question:

Why might the time lag for intramultinational firm and payable (that is, all received or paid to a parent or sister subsidiary) differ substantially from the time lags reported for transactions with unaffiliated companies?
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...