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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accrual

Accrual \Ac*cru"al\ ([a^]k*kr[udd]"al), n. Accrument. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accrual

1782, from accrue + -al (2).

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accrual

n. 1 An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose 2 (context accounting English) a charge incurred in one accounting period that has not been paid by the end of it.

WordNet
accrual

n. the act of accumulating [syn: accumulation, accruement]

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Accrual

Accrual (accumulation) of something is, in finance, the adding together of interest or different investments over a period of time. It holds specific meanings in accounting, where it can refer to accounts on a balance sheet that represent liabilities and non-cash-based assets used in accrual-based accounting. These types of accounts include, among others, accounts payable, accounts receivable, goodwill, deferred tax liability and future interest expense.

Usage examples of "accrual".

A new transparency appeared, showing how the two portfolios would be reported under the traditional, accrual accounting and the mark-to-market approach.

But with accrual accounting, the matched portfolio showed a loss while the dangerous portfolio showed big profits.

But on a bustling, perfervid world like Visaria, where business was ongoing around the clock and cred was being accumulated by the nanosecond, every sentient species whose culture allowed for the accrual of wealth by an individual, clan, family, or group had an interest in establishing a presence in the capital city.

Off the top Oscar, I said off the top, they have gross participation deals, percentage of the gross cash receipts that come in from the movie theatres, networks, cable, home video, foreign exhibitors, net they figure on an accrual basis after their negative costs and distribution, advertising the rest of.

They were my bosses, the trustees of The Foundation, appointed for life to oversee the accrual, investment and expenditure of the funds.

Meanwhile too it became clear that the energies of the publicity boy were directed not to the further accrual of publicity opportunities but to their radical attenuation.

Or you can be stripped of your rank and all pensions and financial accruals afforded therein, as well as the income from some rather valuable real estate in Munich, which in the opinion of any enlight ened court would be taken from you instantly.

I asked, "their accruals from the fellow with the wagon, or otherwise?

The sort of machine that added, subtracted, divided, multiplied, and held figures in six-column accruals until needed.

They were stained with an accrual of cigar smoke, scrawled over in a dozen different pens, and infested with countless coloured pins, each presumably marking a place where some anomalous phenomenon had occured.

When he frowned the filth on his face cracked like crazy paving, a second skin of grime which Was the accrual of many months.

It would be too complex, the proration and accrual and fiscal terms like that.