ingående

Ingående is a Swedish adjective meaning "incoming" or "entering." It is used mainly in administrative, accounting, and logistics contexts to describe items or documents that arrive at an organization or system. The term helps distinguish incoming items from those that are outgoing.

In practice, ingående appears in several common compound terms. Examples include ingående faktura, referring to an invoice received by a company; ingående post, meaning incoming mail; and ingående saldo, the opening balance at the start of a financial period. The word signals direction or flow, paired with utgående (“outgoing”) to describe the full lifecycle of documents, payments, or other items.

Grammatical notes are helpful for correct usage. Ingående is typically used attributively before the noun, as in en ingående faktura. It can appear in predicative constructions, but its primary function in contemporary Swedish is as an attributive modifier in fixed business expressions.

Etymology is linked to the sense of entering or arriving, deriving from the notion of “going in” or entering a process. While the term is most common in business and administration, its general meaning remains applicable to any item or document that enters a system from outside.