OPEXEngine

MAY 22, 2020

Here’s a shout out to Dave Kellogg’s Key SaaS Metrics podcast, recently released on Aznaur Midov’s SaaShimi series. Dave does a terrific job explaining the current state of the art on important SaaS metrics. The podcast is an excellent SaaS Metrics 101 listen even for experienced SaaS finance experts.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 17, 2020

The primary differences between revenue modeling for a subscription vs. non-subscription business is how revenue is recognized over time vs. up-front and how your billings will affect your balance in deferred revenue. . Revenue Modeling: Revenue Growth Over Time. Revenue Modeling: Deferred Revenue .

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. Baremetrics brings you metrics, dunning, engagement tools, and customer insights. For a SaaS business, the deferred revenue category is particularly important.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This puts you in the position of having “unearned revenue”. Unearned revenue, sometimes called deferred revenue, is when you receive payment now for services that you will provide at some point in the future. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial , and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While the equations are all fairly simple, finding the data to calculate all of these metrics is not. For a SaaS business, the deferred revenue category is particularly important. SaaS companies that bring in revenue through a subscription model typically have high accounts receivable and/or deferred revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

The sum total of all this investment in engineering and professional services enabled by big contracts and venture capital is immense revenue growth, more than tripling revenues in just two years, in addition to more than $150M in deferred revenue.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the accrual accounting method, you record revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business: MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Baremetrics brings you metrics, dunning, engagement tools, and customer insights.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We are going to look at two of those principles here: the matching concept and the revenue recognition concept. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26+ metrics about your business including: MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. This is done by following the matching principle. Want to try it for yourself?

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

GAAP revenue. $1M. GAAP unbilled deferred revenue. $5M. ASC 606 revenue. $2M. ASC 606 revenue backlog. $4M. When I look at this is I see: GAAP is being conservative and saying “no cash, no revenue.” 2] And which I like better as “unbilled deferred revenue” is somewhat oxymoronical to me.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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). Revenue backlog is commonly confused with deferred revenue. Deferred revenue refers expressly to individual periods within a contract.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2017

We’ve analyzed AppDynamic’s growth and key metrics, because the business had filed its S-1 to go public. In fact, there is no public metric that I can find to justify this massive premium over comparable acquisitions. Absolute revenue, gross margin, net income margin, cash flow margin, deferred revenue.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Creating a startup financial model helps you uncover key SaaS metrics and the assumptions you'll test as you implement your plans. For that, you need a financial plan with proper metrics.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) standards stipulate that instead you should move $50,000 at the end of each month into your revenue account and keep the unearned subscription revenue in a deferred revenue account as you have not yet earned the money. Get Subscription Pricing Right! start free trial.

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SaaSOptics

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Building a SaaS revenue model that accurately reflects your business requires several data inputs: . Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). GAAP Revenue. Deferred revenue. Despite the challenges, there are concrete ways to improve the accuracy of revenue forecasts. Cost of sales. Operating expenses. Fixed assets.

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SaaSOptics

JANUARY 9, 2020

What if I told you that we have 1 full-time finance team member managing revenue operations with over 80 employees and 650+ customers? One person to manage expense reports, commissions, billing and invoicing, cap tables, revenue recognition, deferred revenue and more. Yes, you read that right.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Baremetrics can help you keep track of your growing business by providing 26 metrics about your business: MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, etc. This shows the importance of keeping track of your incurred expenses and earned revenue on the one hand and your cash position and cash flows on the other hand. Check out this demo account.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Simplify accounting: Accounting can be a far bigger pain in the SaaS industry than other businesses, due to deferred revenue and other delayed revenue forms being common. Accounting software will keep all revenue assets organized. Will this tool uncover metrics I’d have otherwise not known? ProfitWell Metrics.

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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. Public companies report this metric in their filings, but the use of the RPO as a key performance indicator is sporadic.

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Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

It can lead to large long-term deferred revenues which can hinder certain M&A discussions. Think: large balance of cashless revenue from suitor’s perspective.). It complicates the calculation of SaaS metrics , sometimes confusing investors into believing that good metrics are bad ones. (I

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SaaSX

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Touching on a broad spectrum of financing concepts from SaaS subscription models to new bookings, deferred revenue, unbilled AR and beyond – the author writes with a clear desire to help founders conquer the many SaaS financing hurdles. SaaS Finance: Bookings Vs. Revenue Vs. Collections Vs. MRR Vs. ARR. Great job SaaSOptics!

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

It's important for the operation of your business that you choose a subscription management platform that has the features needed to reliably capture revenue from your customers. In addition, analytics tools like ProfitWell Metrics can make your life easier by keeping track of all your subscription reporting in one place.

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SaaSX

MAY 4, 2019

Revenue churn is both an automatic discount of revenue and a massive indicator of market fit and future value predictor. Whatever you say your revenue churn is had better be correct, or like revenue, you’re gonna take some hits. I see it as the #1 suspect metric in SaaS due diligence.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While a liability is everything the company owes (including, strangely, your deferred revenue ), assets are all the items a company owns. Baremetrics can help with this by computing your MRR, ARR, and many other metrics automatically. They are all the items owned by a company.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

For SaaS companies, the investment is not recouped until after years of initial SaaS revenues. Deferred Revenue = Deferred Profits. SaaS companies have similar up-front revenue acquisition expenses as product sale companies, but these up-front investments coupled with long-term returns delays the revenue and profits.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Similarly, you’ll want to be able to look at new metrics as they become relevant to your business. After all, SaaS has many unique metrics and KPIs that can’t be communicated using only a three statement structure. The easiest way to see this is to pull a handful of reports from a SaaS metrics system such as Baremetrics.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The simplest way of tracking it is by keeping a close tab on the difference between your revenue target and your revenue backlog. But, you cannot possibly use deferred revenue in place of revenue backlog. The reason is revenue backlog remains constant while deferred revenue fluctuates a lot.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Get accounting and business metrics all at once. In accrual accounting, you need to recognize your revenue according to ASC 606 , which means you also need to involve a deferred revenue account. Simply connect your account to QuickBooks or upload a.csv file and everything from your T accounts is there for you.

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Kellblog

MAY 3, 2019

Complexify SaaS metrics. Multi-year deals make metrics calculation and interpretation even more complicated. Some buyers, particularly those in private equity (PE), will look at the relatively large long-term deferred revenue balance as “cashless revenue” and try to deduct the cost of it from an acquisition price [5].

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SaaSOptics

JULY 14, 2022

Real-time updated SaaS subscription metrics. Not knowing your historical revenue and other key financial metrics can erode investor confidence in your company. Then, you can start generating reports on revenue, deferred revenue, invoicing, accounts receivable, and other key financial metrics. .

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Recognized Revenue — commonly referred to as just “revenue” and reflected in the income statement. Payments that fulfill five criteria (see below) can be considered recognized revenue. Related posts: The complete guide to SaaS revenue recognition with ASC 606. SaaS Metrics Refresher #2: Recurring Revenue.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms. Only a handful of metrics really matter. I’ve tried – just ask my in laws.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 27, 2021

Your auditor will want to see all relevant data pertaining to that customer including the contract, invoices, revenue schedule, deferred revenue, etc for the previous fiscal year. . SaaSOptics offers out-of-the-box financial reporting that makes it easy for your team to access financial metrics in a matter of seconds. .

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Investors and VCs are already looking for ASC 606-compliant metrics when evaluating businesses, and it’s always good to meet the needs of your investors. In the example below, we’ll take you through a typical revenue recognition scenario for a SaaS business, and show how criteria apply in their context. Deferred revenue.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Revenues This was mentioned in the introductory paragraph of this article. Using GAAP’s revenue principle, revenue should only be reported when it's recognized. This often has an impact on SaaS businesses with deferred revenue streams. Matching GAAP principles govern how revenues are matched with expenses.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The first is really automating the order to cash to renewal process for these businesses as well as providing automated revenue recognition and deferred revenue calculations in an automated fashion. We had been tracking all of our fundamental financial metrics since our inception. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The first is really automating the order to cash to renewal process for these businesses as well as providing automated revenue recognition and deferred revenue calculations in an automated fashion. We had been tracking all of our fundamental financial metrics since our inception. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The first is really automating the order to cash to renewal process for these businesses as well as providing automated revenue recognition and deferred revenue calculations in an automated fashion. We had been tracking all of our fundamental financial metrics since our inception. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks.

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