How to Use accrual in a Sentence

accrual

1 of 2 noun

• With the accrual of time for good behavior, his sentence is set to end next April.
  — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2019
• The large-scale paintings in the exhibition were formed through the accrual and erosion of layers of thinned oil paint.
  — courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• In terms of time off, the contract includes a new cap on accrual of sick leave for new hires, who will be allowed to accumulate no more than 784 hours.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• At that level, travelers give up quite a bit: Alaska Air limits mileage accrual to 30% of miles flown.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• In the nation that grew from those assumptions, the accrual of wealth became incompatible with a return to the land.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• That rapid asset accrual has whetted the appetite of others.
  — Kristine Owram, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
• Payments and interest accrual on federal loans are on hold through the end of August.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 May 2022
• New hires now have a maximum sick leave accrual of 80 days and would not receive any payout of accrued sick leave upon retirement.
  — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 8 Dec. 2017
• In 52 Days For much of the last two years, federal student loan payments have been suspended, along with interest accrual.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• Expenses as a share of revenue in the third quarter was 65.5% because of the $1 billion litigation accrual.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The move comes on the heels of failure by the past chairman and treasurer of the party to formally file paperwork placing them in those positions and the accrual of $500 in fines for late campaign filings.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 18 July 2017
• The president is expected to decide soon whether to grant another pause of student loan repayments and interest accrual, which are scheduled to lift at the end of the month.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2022
• There is no change to accrual or redemption on Ravn to other destinations.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019
• That accrual of power, of course, would be aided significantly by a second Trump term.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
• The mayor has also proposed changes to sick leave and vacation accrual for nonunion employees, though council members said this week that the measure doesn't have support.
  — Jenna Carlesso, courant.com, 20 May 2017
• Among other terms and conditions, the tentative agreement includes a new cap on accrual of sick leave for new hires, who will be allowed to accumulate no more than 784 hours.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2019
• That is important because payments are set to resume, along with the accrual of interest, in January.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2022
• Qualcomm reduced patent licensing revenue for the March quarter by $974 million as an accrual for the BlackBerry award.
  — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Among the tools the city has made available online are workplace posters, answers to frequently asked questions and an Excel worksheet that small businesses can use to track the accrual of employee leave.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2017
• Some of these measures are still ongoing, like the pause on federal student loan payments and interest accrual.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 May 2022
• Those changes included higher dental premiums and a switch to a high-deductible health plan, along with new policies for retiree health insurance and sick leave accrual.
  — Jenna Carlesso, courant.com, 20 May 2017
• But efforts to change the system, including a 1994 ballot initiative, were blocked by the State Supreme Court, which ruled that accruals could not be reduced during any public worker’s career.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
• Because of the slower average rate of repayment, women also end up paying more on their loans than men due to interest accrual.
  — Kayti Burt, refinery29.com, 28 Apr. 2022
• In May, the company announced wage increases and new benefits, like faster sick leave accrual, that would apply only to employees of nonunion stores or those not in the process of organizing.
  — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• However, extending the loan term will cost you nearly $1,000 more overall due to interest accrual.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2022
• Rocket came up with an innovative solution: assign everyone a day off that wouldn’t count against their PTO accrual.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2021
• And, notes the Times, the accrual of information by the F.B.I. about a potential crime does not necessarily mean prosecutors are constructing a case.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 15 June 2017
• The bonus accruals rose on annual results that compared favorably with 2017 results that were marred by a cyberattack.
  — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• The month of May brought a particularly glaring accrual of trauma and grief to black communities across the country, which have been ravaged by the pandemic and its economic fallout.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
• Both mileage accrual and upgrades fall under the loyalty umbrella.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023

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accrual

2 of 2 adjective

• The most common are the cash method and the accrual method.
  — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
• But if a payment plan is in effect, that accrual rate drops to 0.25% per month.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
• However, a change that allows the strike pay accrual to start on the first day of a strike rather than the eighth day was allowed to stand.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2022
• Point accrual from flying is based on the cost of the ticket, on a sliding scale based on the member's status.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
• One level up is Gold Elite, which includes late check-out and a 10 percent bonus to your point accrual.
  — Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2021
• Employers who want to avoid the carry-over requirements can skip the accrual process and just offer the maximum amount of sick time at the start of the year.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
• Biden has tied restarting those payments and interest accrual to the timing of the high court’s ruling.
  — Lisa Hagan, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2023
• August marked the first month on an accrual basis of a new fiscal year for Tennessee.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• For more than the past three years, there has been a moratorium on payments and interest accrual in place owing to the pandemic.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• Recall the taxpayer should use the same method of tax accounting, cash or accrual, that is used for tax purposes for the relevant tax year.
  — Daniel Mayo, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Warmer weather can also cause snow to melt faster, further impeding any accrual (also known as pack) of snow.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• Many companies use the accrual method of accounting for their taxes.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• Winner said the error stemmed from a technical problem in applying a new accrual rate for some accounts.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
• Ones with gross receipts below $25 million can use the simpler cash method of accounting rather than the accrual method; the previous ceiling was $5 million.
  — Conrad De Aenlle, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• This is far bigger than $10k of relief: no interest accrual on loans in repayment.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2022
• This widely used cash flow estimate has many weaknesses that arise out of the use of accrual accounting for the calculation of the income statement.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• Clearly there was a very significant disruption to clinical trials accrual for the first five or six months of the pandemic.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• Additionally, the monthly accounting adjustment for cash-to-accrual swung to the positive this month in the amount of $1.5 [million].
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2023
• Promises of free plane tickets, iPhones, and points-accrual multipliers on dining and gas purchases can be enticing perks, but after a while, all the benefits of opening a new card can start to sound the same.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2022
• There also won’t be any new interest accrual on your federal student loans and no collection of student loans in default.
  — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• In addition, the board increased Shoenberger’s vacation accrual rate from 6.5 hours to eight hours per pay period.
  — Luke Money, Daily Pilot, 20 Dec. 2017
• Under accrual basis accounting, expenses are matched with the related revenues and are reported when the expense occurs, not when the cash is paid.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The month of May brought a particularly glaring accrual of trauma and grief to black communities across the country, which have been ravaged by the pandemic and its economic fallout.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
• Since there is no new interest accrual on your federal student loans, your student loan payments will first be used to pay off any outstanding interest.
  — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• But share values can be volatile, and taxing capital on an accrual basis could have the opposite effect: forcing people to sell assets that have sharply appreciated to pay the tax.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2017
• Apparently, there was a loophole in the HR policies about paying out unused vacation only on an accrual basis—something her boss was unaware of.
  — Roberta Moore, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Interest accrual and collections remain on pause as well.
  — Julia Carpenter, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• The contract includes more benefits for part-time workers including vacation accrual after one year of work.
  — Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Payments and interest accrual on federal student loans initially were paused by the Trump administration and Congress as the pandemic took hold in 2020.
  — Andrew Restuccia, WSJ, 2 July 2023
• The debt ceiling plan forbids anymore pauses on student loans, which means federal student loan repayments and interest accrual would likely restart around September 1.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024