here’s a fun one, although the client I’m working ...
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p
here’s a fun one, although the client I’m working with is still on classic rev rec (commitments and schedules, not arrangements and plans). If you sell a portion of your business, and have open, unrecognized revenue schedules FROM that business, is there an option OTHER than marking those schedules as ‘Is recognized’ to pull them out of circulation/recognition?
My concern with that approach is that ‘Is Recognized’ is misleading…because we DIDN’T recognize the revenue. We sold the deferred revenue balance to someone ELSE. Is there a best practice here? I’ve done a lot of acquisition work to fold a new company into NS but I’ve never SOLD a part of the business before. Note that this is PART of a subsidiary, so I can’t just inactivate the sub and walk away.
r
I've seen a script that sets all Rev Rec schedule lines to the current month so you can just post the revenue in that month and then reverse it out via manual JEs. It's maybe not really better since that also looks like you're recognizing revenue you haven't, but you can kind of document an audit trail between all the entries. And hopefully someone would notice 6 months worth of revenue posted to one month and start questioning thing. I don't have access to this script, I just know it's possible.
p
okay thanks @RJMNS. Looks like all the standard/non scripted options are the ones I already know about
j
You can create Revenue Commitment Reversal which will negate your Rev Commit.
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r
Good point @Josh. I had forgotten about those. Or blocked them out! Doesn't that try to 100% reverse the original commitment though? I can't remember. If so, it would be a bunch of manual work to adjust.
j
You have to tell the system what needs to be clawed back, so yeah it’s manual.