Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• REVENUE RECOGNITION
  
  the process of recording revenue, under one of the various acceptable methods, in the accounting period. In each period of revenue recognition, all related expenses should be matched to revenue. The most common method of recognizing revenue is at the time of sale or provisioning of service.
  
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