accrual
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Live Nation reported a first-quarter loss of $389.1 million, primarily due to a $450 million legal accrual.
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
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Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF, or SPHQ, tracks stocks chosen for ROE, leverage, and something called the accruals ratio.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
In particular, it’s become helpful in tracking down information for journal entries, such as accruals for revenue and expenses, that are eventually tallied up on the balance sheet, ON Semiconductor’s Trent said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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