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
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
Adidas blamed the 70 percent drop on one-time expenses for a strategic review, “as well as the donations and accruals for further donations.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
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
Therefore the total amounts on which taxes are paid during the life of the mine should represent approximately the total accruals of interest from March 1, 1913.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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