accrual

The recent earnings were hurt by a $450 million legal accrual, which posed a $1.93 headwind to earnings per share, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Most private-sector employers cap vacation accrual between 40 and 400 hours and stop employees from earning additional time once they reach those limits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The accrual ratio is sometimes called the Sloan ratio, after an accounting professor named Richard Sloan, whose research showed that companies with cleaner earnings generally produce superior stock returns.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Programmable smart contracts also allow for continuous accrual of interest, automatic fee distribution, and even real-time auditability.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025

But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

"While bonus accruals and losses in the set business may weigh on earnings, memory profits alone are likely to be substantial," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Forensic accountants worry about rising accruals as a sign of earnings manipulation or fraud, but that isn’t the concern here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

The group will use alternative funding channels from internal accruals, promoter equity funding and private placements to fund projects, Mint said.

From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023

The exhibition curators, Rodrigo Moura and Julieta González, chose to show Montañez Ortiz’s work alongside a motley range of other artists’, creating accruals and dialogues that magnify the importance of any single object.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

The value of the assets in the sinking fund on December 31, 1917, estimating the purchased customs administration bonds at par, was $6,019,161.50, exclusive of interest accruals in 1917.

From Santo Domingo A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich