Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Most enterprise SaaS products are high-consideration purchases. Most SaaS vendors will jump at the opportunity to lock in a longer subscription term. How did we get here?

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 22, 2022

While we all wish to be like Smaug, counting the cash we have today, SaaS companies need to think ahead. Revenue accruals are how we do that. But instead of counting what we have today, SaaS companies use a ledger to add up all the gold—I mean, cash—that they one day will get. . Revenue Accrual Definition.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the case of a SaaS business, your most valuable assets are the contracts you have with your clients and the platform they use. Speaking of your users, it is important to understand how much revenue they are generating with the best possible estimates of your MRR and ARR. How are balance sheets unique for SaaS? Fixed assets 3.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

You can often find yourself receiving money long before you provide agreed upon services or, conversely, providing services and then waiting for payment. But, what are the accounting ramifications of customers paying you before you render services? This puts you in the position of having “unearned revenue”.

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ProfitWell

JULY 20, 2020

Unfortunately for SaaS companies, bookkeeping is hectic and is often plagued by such inconsistencies and mistakes. Why SaaS financial audits prove different. SaaS companies run on a dynamically different business model compared to traditional companies. Long-term payment structures. What is a financial audit?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. Thus, RPO equals the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Now, let’s take a look at an example.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue. Subscription Pricing Models How to Get Subscription Pricing Right The Advantages of a Subscription Revenue Model 1. Table of Contents.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While that can make it daunting at first—with so many rules and regulations to follow—as you become familiar with them, it takes all the guesswork out of the process. We are going to look at two of those principles here: the matching concept and the revenue recognition concept. Table of Contents.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Revenue realization and revenue recognition are two different events that impact your ability to accurately forecast and reflect on the true earnings in a period. Definition Of Revenue. Before we go any further, let us look at the concept of revenue. Effectively, the revenue is deferred and not yet realized.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Baremetrics can integrate directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Check out all the information on the dashboards here: Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this week's lesson, we're tackling the tricky process of converting bookings into revenue — also known as revenue recognition. Repeat after me: cash is not revenue! Revenue recognition is a critical piece of accounting for any business. Definition: what is revenue recognition? Key terminology.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

When money comes in and services are rendered on different timelines, it can be difficult to keep track of what invoices have been collected and who is still owed services. Baremetrics integrates seamlessly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically visualized on the Baremetrics dashboards.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Revenue recognition. ASC 606 and its sister standard IFRS 15 bring a set of structured guidelines for recognizing revenue -- here's what every SaaS business needs to know to meet the deadline and get compliant. Cash is not revenue. A recognized revenue chart in ChartMogul. How to recognize revenue under ASC 606.

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

Tax laws are complex and, for businesses operating in the United States, every state has their own set of laws that must be followed in addition to federal tax laws. In some states, SaaS companies are required to collect and pay sales tax for their products. How is a SaaS product/company defined in the US?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We also show you what assets you are specifically likely to see while running your SaaS company. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services. Usage: Assets can be classified into whether they are used in company operations or not.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I might call this intentional MRR, much like signing up for a SaaS service on a month-to-month basis [2]. Why does the phrase “recurring revenue” appear exactly zero times in Snowflake’s 10-Q ? And what’s the impact on your other SaaS metrics? Hence, the revenue recurred.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

GAAP is important to SaaS Businesses. Revenue recognition, as per GAAP, states that payment is recognized as revenue after delivering the product or service in its entirety. Of course, that’s not how SaaS revenue works. (We We wrote more about revenue recognition here!) Table of Contents.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this post we’re going to look at the management accounting side of multi-year SaaS deals that grow in value over time. Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s take an example from this KPMG data sheet on ASC 606 and SaaS.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 27, 2019

You’ve just landed the biggest customer in your SaaS company’s history, adding tens of thousands of dollars to your income in a single sale. After the cash lands in your account (and after you’ve cleaned up from the inevitable champagne-and-pizza party), you’ll no doubt want to update your accounts to reflect your newfound revenue.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Cash Flow from Operations. Price/Revenue Ratio. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Taking advantage of SaaS tools will help you accomplish this. If you aren’t using SaaS tools yet, by the end of this article you’ll understand why you should. There are a wide number of reasons why SaaS tools are taking over. SaaS tools are easy to use and come equipped with updated features. Avoiding SaaS tool bloat.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

With only 2 people on our Finance & Operations team, we have to be smart about how we use our resources. Finance & Operations. The first thing that comes to mind when you think of a SaaS business? The Finance & Operations Team at ChartMogul. These are the tools that help us scale our work. Exciting, right?

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