Accrual Accounting Convention

Accrual Accounting Convention
An accounting system that tries to match the recognition of revenues earned with the expenses incurred in generating those revenues. It ignores the timing of the cash flows associated with revenues and expenses. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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