accrual
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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
It combines returns on equity, debt-to-book value and an “accruals ratio” of operating assets to total assets.
From MarketWatch
Those are generally accrual accounting measures, which reflect the effects of actions that happened during the year, not actual cash payments.
Forensic accountants worry about rising accruals as a sign of earnings manipulation or fraud, but that isn’t the concern here.
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.
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