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How to defer revenue recognition without ARM?

edited Feb 10, 2023 12:35AM in Ask A Guru 8 comments

Hi expert,

I have scenario related services sales start from sales order, the scenario as follows:

  1. on this month(feb), we have a machine maintenance service to client who buys our machine
  2. we issue an invoice to customer, and at this month GL impact for services revenue account is recognize
  3. on next month(march), our technician will come to check the machine, during the journey to client location, our technician has expenses occurs related to this client such as hotel/accommodation/meal etc. and expenses are recognized on march

for 2 transactions with different month happen, there were not capture a matching concept of the accounting principle, which is on Feb was only recognize the revenue (there was no cost of sales occurs),

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