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accrual | Business English

accrual
noun
uk /əˈkruːəl/us
[ C or U ] FINANCE
an increase in an amount of money over a period of time:
accrual of sthThe accrual of interest begins when the funds are credited to the account.
[ C ] ACCOUNTING
→ accrued expense

Examples of accrual

accrual
This gives the cost now of providing for an additional year's accrual of pension payable from retirement.
Benefits of the income-related scheme are a function of the number of years of employment, age-weighted accrual rate, and the wage.
Many of the prior studies have used unexpected accruals to proxy for earnings management.
Moreover, the valuation that the market placed on the pension-related accruals was indistinguishable from that placed on sponsors' core earnings.
This difference in accrual rates affects the funding limitations of plans.
At any given age, some workers will have positive accruals and others may have negative accruals.
Once again, age is the cause of the greatest difference in the increases in the benefits attributable to pension accrual.
We consider a 2 % annual benefit accrual and compare the proposal again with current law.
Caloric restriction prevents age-associated accrual of oxidative damage to mouse skeletal muscle mitochondria.
Increase of target accrual to bone mineral density sub-protocol from 200 to 400 patients.
I only conjecture that the optimal accrual rate is lower than that of the naive (fair) benefit at the normal retirement age.
We assume an accrual rate of 1/60th for the private sector and of 1/80th for the public.
Table 1 shows a 'typical ' accrual rate in these cases.
If the funding ratio drops below 60 %, the plan will be frozen and benefit accrual will cease.
Indeed, pension accruals are potentially worse than noise, as there are times when they have been negatively correlated with the value of pension assets.
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