accrual method

accrual method definition - legal

n

An accounting method that records income and expenses when they are earned or incurred rather than when they are received or paid. See also cash method and completed contract method.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
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