matching rule

matching rule definition - finance
An accounting rule that says revenues must be assigned to the accounting period in which the goods were sold or the services performed. Likewise, expenses must be assigned to the accounting period in which they are used to produce revenue.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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