Is it possible to define the revenue recognition e...
# accounting
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Is it possible to define the revenue recognition event as the payment and get the revenue daily allocated correctly?
s
Not possible on payment. That will defeat the purpose of accrual accounting.
a
In a B2B business is the payment which drive the REAL revenue recognition start date
s
So you start doing some business activity for customer today and have invoice terms 60 day's-later. You’ll still have to recognise the income and expense related to those activity in the period of occurrence. Rather then payment activity which is after 60 days.
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es, assuming a 2 months subscription, January and February you should count the number of days for each month in the range than divide the monthly revenue for the number of days of the month and impact each day with the right "proportionate" impact . BUT, in the first month, if the user pays 5 days after (the credit card payment fails, for example) the subscription start date used for the proportion calculation should be the payment date. So that the first days have a 0 impact of revenue (we can't talk about revenue if we don't get paid in a B2C business) and following days considers the first days (grace period) 0 impact
It's also important to understand that I'm talking about regulations which impact listed company and IFRS regulations.
If you talk about final users (no VAT reg number) so B2C you are not talking about invoices with specific payment terms but cash sales (at least theoretically)
The B2C management is almost always "cash driven"...
k
Could you not leave the transaction unfulfilled, and then use the fulfillment transaction to drive the revenue when cash is paid?
That said, I'm not a Rev/Rec or IFRS or GAAP expert
k
@Andrea Rivetti - you might want to go for custom rev rec event; this will require a script to proceed with that. Payment is not one of the out-of-the box rev rec triggers
however you can set your rev rec to be on fulfillment which you control of course - so you fulfill when payment is posted in the bank
s
This almost looks more related to Suitebilling then ARM.
k
well, Andrea still wants to recognize revenue on Payment which is not an option as a trigger of rev rec regardless whether she has SB
what might work though since there is a credit card involved is that you bill upon credit card receipt - Billing is an option as a rev rec trigger
not sure if this works in terms of business process thouogh
@Andrea Rivetti - and yes, straight line exact days is available as recognition method
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Thank you very much to everyone of you. I think which driving rev.rec on bill, supposing we are issuing cash sales when we receive payments. So I think (not sure but I will create a POC and share results) that we will have something like: Subscription start date (SO date): 01/01/2020 Subscription end date = Rev Rec end date Trigger on billing Revenue start date = payment date So that, assuming the client will pay 5 days later then the Subscription revenue impact should be 0 eur for the first 5 days and the MONTHLY REVENUE / ( Number of days of the month - grace period days) for the remaining days of the month. Of course this is because we need to recognize the revenue daily. Does this make sense to you all?