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accrual

[uh-kroo-uhl] / əˈkru əl /
NOUN
growth
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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The company said the legal accrual posed a $1.93 headwind to earnings per share.

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

QUAL’s index doesn’t exclude stocks based on accruals, instead looking for steady earnings growth, which these Big Tech names have in spades.

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

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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