Revenue Recognition Insights

The milestone method allows companies to recognize revenue when specific, predefined milestones are reached during a project (a revenue recognition event). These milestone events are typically tied to significant achievements, such as completing a project phase, meeting contract deliverables, or hitting performance targets.

As a CFO or Controller, you are responsible for ensuring the financial health of your organization. One of the most critical areas of focus is revenue accounting. Here are the top 3 reasons to automate revenue accounting.

In this guide, we discuss how to start your accounting career, the typical career path to becoming a CFO, and ways to propel your revenue accounting career forward.

Automating revenue recognition is all about using software and technology to make identifying, recording, and reporting revenue transactions much easier. With automation, companies can save a ton of time and effort while ensuring their financial reports are accurate and comply with industry regulations. 

Webinar Recap: Managing Lessor Accounting at Scale This webinar explores how lessor accounting shows up in modern technology contracts, why embedded leases are difficult to identify, and how finance teams manage lease and revenue accounting together as contract complexity increases. What This Session Covers: In this conversation, RightRev CEO Jagan Reddy joins Laura, a senior […]

Lessor accounting and lessee accounting may share the same standards, but they live on opposite sides of the balance sheet. For companies that deliver hardware alongside software or services, this split creates real operational complexity. Revenue, lease income, and asset management must all stay in sync, and that is where traditional systems start to break down.

Most lessor accounting point solutions are Revenue Blind. They track assets brilliantly and manage lease compliance flawlessly. But these tools were built for a different era. An era before hardware companies bundled devices with software subscriptions and outcome-based services.

In our previous post, we explored the broad landscape of lessor accounting software and identified the four main architectural approaches available to the market. Now, we turn our focus to the most common starting point for any large enterprise: The ERP. For most organizations, the “Single Vendor Strategy” is the logical default. The premise is […]

Understanding Automated Revenue Management Revenue recognition software has evolved from a basic compliance tool into a strategic asset that drives business growth. The landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift, driven by the explosion of complex pricing models that have moved far beyond simple straight-line subscription revenue. Today’s finance teams must navigate usage-based pricing, consumption models, […]

If you are a hardware company transitioning to a Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) or Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) model, you have likely encountered a painful accounting shift. What was once hardware revenue is now a hybrid contract with multiple performance obligations, placing XaaS lease accounting at the center of financial reporting.

What you’ll learn: Speakers Jagan ReddyChief Executive Officer, RightRev Em DaigleFounder, Otto-Mates Laura SnodgrassSr. Director of Revenue Operations and Accounting, CDK Global Overview Lease accounting is not new, but the risk profile has changed. As companies lease everything from real estate to servers to software capacity, the gap between lessee and lessor accounting has widened. […]

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