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The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make

SaaStr

It was too big a flag for a company at the edge of where I like to invest. Advice: Sooner or later, you will have to know both booking and revenue numbers, and the difference between them. Not doing so may cost you in a lower valuation, less investment, or even losing an interested buyer or investor.

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Rev Up Your Business with Revenue Intelligence: The Power of Deferred Revenue and Expansion Revenue

SmartKarrot

This is where revenue intelligence comes into play, helping companies to gain valuable insights into their revenue performance, identify growth opportunities, and drive profitability. In this blog, we will explore two key areas of revenue intelligence: deferred revenue and expansion revenue.

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What Is Working Capital?

Baremetrics

For a SaaS business, the deferred revenue category is particularly important. Deferred Revenue: Counterintuitively, if you have collected money for services that have not yet been rendered, this is a liability because you owe the client for those services. Many SaaS businesses have zero inventory.

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Revenue backlog definition: SaaS subscription revenue backlogs

ProfitWell

And one of the types that a lot of companies miss is revenue backlog : the total unrecognized revenue across the term of a given subscription agreement. In fact, it’s not recorded in any meaningful way that’s comparable to other revenue statistics (particularly deferred revenue, which it’s often confused with).

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SaaS Balance Sheet Examples

Baremetrics

Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start managing your subscription business right. For a SaaS business, the deferred revenue category is particularly important. For example, if you have sought outside investment into your business, instead of selling a stake in your company, you may have sold bonds.

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SaaS Financial Audits: 5 Tips for a SaaS Company's Financial Audit

ProfitWell

Consequently, this goal enhances the credibility of such financial reports with relevant parties, such as shareholders who need to know how well a company is performing when deciding whether or not to invest/divest. The monthly subscription revenue model, unfortunately, is not enough to ensure consistency of income in the long-term.

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Benchmarking WorkDay's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Unlike these other companies, WorkDay has employed a huge professional services team in addition in investing massively in their R&D to create a broad suite of products. In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. Services revenue isn’t a money-maker.