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Revenue recognition is an accounting rule of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that determines the specific conditions under which income becomes realized as revenue. It’s also the key focus of the important ASC 606 standards that took effect in 2018 for public companies and in 2019 for private companies. The guiding principle is that organizations recognize revenue only as the value of the product or service is being received by the customer. Revenue recognition is a particularly important accounting measure for subscription-based businesses. For example, you’ve signed a customer to a monthly subscription service that starts on January 15 and the value of the service is delivered from the remaining days of January through to February 14. On January 31, 16 days of the subscription is “earned revenue” since that much of the service has been delivered to the customer. The “not yet delivered” portion of the service – 14 days – is counted as “deferred revenue”. Revenue recognition reflects the true extent of revenue earned during a specific period. In a subscription business, revenue often needs to be recognized daily. This is extremely hard to accomplish manually, in a timely fashion, and without error. Subscriptions are received every day, and each results in a unique revenue recognition calculation. Adding to this already complex process, customers often make changes to their subscriptions mid-term. These upgrades or downgrades require real-time, complex adjustments to drive proper revenue recognition. What is revenue recognition and why is ASC 606 important? Why is revenue recognition important? FUSEBILL.COM REVENUE RECOGNITION MADE EASY
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Revenue recognition is an accounting rule of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that determines the specific conditions under which income becomes realized as revenue. It’s also the key focus of the important ASC 606 standards that took effect in 2018 for public companies and in 2019 for private companies. The guiding principle is that organizations recognize revenue only as the value of the product or service is being received by the customer. Revenue recognition is a particularly important accounting measure for subscription-based businesses.
For example, you’ve signed a customer to a monthly subscription service that starts on January 15 and the value of the service is delivered from the remaining days of January through to February 14. On January 31, 16 days of the subscription is “earned revenue” since that much of the service has been delivered to the customer. The “not yet delivered” portion of the service – 14 days – is counted as “deferred revenue”.
Revenue recognition reflects the true extent of revenue earned during a specificperiod. In a subscription business, revenue often needs to be recognized daily.This is extremely hard to accomplish manually, in a timely fashion, and withouterror. Subscriptions are received every day, and each results in a unique revenuerecognition calculation. Adding to this already complex process, customers oftenmake changes to their subscriptions mid-term. These upgrades or downgrades require real-time, complex adjustments to drive proper revenue recognition.
What is revenue recognition and why is ASC 606 important?
Why is revenue recognition important?
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With Fusebill, revenue recognition is handled automatically. The Fusebill platform manages multiple pricing and subscription schemes and allows for customer subscriptions to be received directly and automatically at any time of day and any day of the week.
The Fusebill platform was constructed on the tried-and-true dual-entry accounting system. This means that every charge that is processed has a corresponding credit to the deferred revenue side and a debit transaction to the accounts receivable department. Differentiating these entries is absolutely essential for monitoring revenue recognition.
Fusebill allows all the pieces of a subscription agreement to be broken into separate parts that can each receive a value and a revenue recognition schedule, giving you complete control over how and when revenue gets recognized.
The ability to recognize your revenue quickly and accurately, at any point in time, allows you to meet your account closing deadlines, be compliant with the new ASC 606 standards, and have access to an accurate, real-time picture of your revenue. To ensure you always know where you stand, Fusebill’s revenue recognition dashboard shows you, at any given time, how many of these transactions are still in a deferred or earned account. Fusebill is the industry leader in simplifying revenue recognition, and its agile platform automates and manages all your subscription billing activities.
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