Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of accumulating; an increase.
- noun Something that accumulates or increases.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of accruing; accretion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Accrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
increase ; something thataccumulates , especially an amount ofmoney that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose - noun accounting a
charge incurred in one accountingperiod that has not been paid by the end of it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of accumulating
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Examples
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For a young participant, the cash balance accrual is ordinarily faster.
Retirement Policy 2009
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The decline versus the prior quarter was related to a lower bonus accrual, which is tied to company performance.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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I'm sure cash-basis accounting has a place somewhere in the world, but the vast majority of businesses adhere to another convention called accrual-basis, which says that revenue is earned and expenses are generated at the moment of the transaction -- not when cash changes hands.
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In the US, the largest capital market and borrower, even the most optimistic budget estimates foresee another decade of crushing deficits that will grow the official deficit by some $9 trillion and the real (i.e., "accrual" or "unofficial") deficit by perhaps another $20 to $30 trillion, once we account for growth in liabilities.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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In the US, the largest capital market and borrower, even the most optimistic budget estimates foresee another decade of crushing deficits that will grow the official deficit by some $9 trillion and the real (i.e., "accrual" or "unofficial") deficit by perhaps another $20 to $30 trillion, once we account for growth in liabilities.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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Then there was a gigantic accounting gimmick -- a shift from pay-as-you-go bookkeeping to something known as "accrual" accounting in the government's pension-guarantee and deposit-insurance funds.
Decoding Bush 2008
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Amgen (AMGN): Q1 revenues contained a $33 million "accrual," with an estimated "impact" of $200 million to $250 million for the year.
BNET Articles Jim Edwards 2010
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The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to authorize the DOT to award multi-year contracts for highway projects and a variety of other activities, a system of "accrual" accounting the agency used before a 2008 state audit concluded that it violated Georgia's Constitution.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Sonny Perdue and the State Transportation Board over whether the DOT has the legal authority to obligate the state to multi-year funding commitments using a system of "accrual" accounting.
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010
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Amgen (AMGN): Q1 revenues contained a $33 million "accrual," with an estimated "impact" of $200 million to $250 million for the year.
BNET Articles Jim Edwards 2010
ecbrenner commented on the word accrual
"A financial stipend that is provided to the sales channel by the vendor or manufacturer. The accrual amount is a usually a percentage of the invoiced price of items sold to the channel partner over a set period of time (e.g. a percentage of the previous six month's sales)." --Webopedia
March 12, 2009