Accrual accounting adheres to the matching principle, which requires that expenses be matched with the revenues they help generate in the same reporting period. This produces a more accurate ...

Depreciation and GAAP. A key example of the matching principle is depreciation. Let's say that a company pays for items of property, plant, and equipment in cash, it will record a reduction in ...

Accrual and Deferral Process and Timeline. The handling of prepaid expense deferrals and expense accruals will be consistent with the last nine fiscal years. ... Revenues are deferred based on the ...

Macy’s says an employee hid as much as $154 million in expenses The employee "intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries" to hide millions of dollars, Macy's said.