Anyone using Advanced Cost Amortization preference? Has anyone built an automation, so that the users do not need to manually enter the Deferred Cost Amount (in base currency) to be amortized in the Revenue Arrangement?

It's been a couple years, so this may not still be accurate (I don't have an ARM account anymore to check), but the problem with ACA was that it had to be over the same term as the Arrangement and IIRC, the costs associated with 606/revenue have to be amortized over a longer period (typically) than a revenue contract. I'd check if that changed before putting in automations.

I believe that is still the case. There's no separate equivalent of Revenue Recognition Rule or Amortization Template for ACA.

did you have to create a custom solution and completely ignore the ACA feature

Custom solution was someone keying it if I remember right, but yes basically. Presumably you could do some scripting that would still utilize the ACA feature (extend the end date of the amortization schedule via script), but ARM might block you from doing that if it was linked to an Arrangement. Didn't check into it very deeply. When I dealt with it, there wasn't enough volume to where we looked seriously at an automation.

Gotcha. Thanks a lot!