Accrue

  

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Accrue means "to add over time." When you accrue dirt under your fingernails, you should wash your hands. When you accrue wealth, well, that's just good.

In Accounting Land, accrue is most often applied to interest, income, earnings, or bonuses for which the company is liable to pay annually, but which accrue monthly, and so on. In fact, there's a whole division of accounting cleverly titled accrual accounting, which uses myriad adjustments for risk and timing of revenues and expenses that companies suffer along the way. Its kissing cousin is cash accounting, which tracks only the cash flowing from customer to cashier drawer to bank account regularly.

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Finance: What is pooling: investment/int...3 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is pooling Well it's aggregating no

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no aggregating yeah Throwing in cash together partnering pooling interests

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in an investment simply refers to two or more players

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getting together to invest their money in whatever form mutual

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funds are are pooled investment So our index funds hedge

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fund bond funds etfs reads mlps any uh pretty much

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and well every other investment vehicle that can scale to

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allow for two or twenty or two million investors to

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all come together and invest well Why would people want

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to do this scale or rather synergies of costs from

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scale Whether you have one investor or ten thousand you

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need to file papers and there are usually pretty much

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always lawyers involved and accountants and other wall street gum

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sucking gadflies and the marginal additional cost of servicing ten

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thousand pooled investors is only somewhat more than servicing won

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So in many cases pooling makes a lot of sense

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when investors interests are generally aligned and when they're not 00:01:07.229 --> [endTime] around there's trouble

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