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Are you trying to run revenue recognition for a period with zero hours? That is not possible. Projector always Projector used to expects there to be at least one time card, however small, in a recognition period. You'll need to add a dummy time card if you don't have any. Why the requirement? Revenue Recognition was designed for fixed price projects. When you run revenue recognition the expectation is that you made progress towards completing your project. In order to make progress, you need to have done some work.Projector realizes that this assumption is no longer true, especially now that fixed price retainer contracts are more and more common in the services industry. A month may go by with no work, but you still collect a fixed feeAs of the Nov 2019 release, it now allows you to recognize revenue in a period with no time cards at all in recognition of the increasing prevalence of managed services contracts and retainer type work. It's more common with these sorts of contracts that a month may go by without your doing any work, but you still want to recognize some revenue.

When that happens, from an accounting perspective, any revenue or expense that would have routed to the resource cost center will route to the engagement's cost center.

From a reporting perspective reporting by the engagement cost center will be unaffected. Using the P&L cost center will show the behavior as described above. Using the resource cost center will show the revenue and expense, but attribute it to a <blank> cost center.