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

Tom Tunguz

WorkDay financed this huge investment by coupling long-term, near-million-dollar agreements and nearly $200M in venture capital. But because the company has such a huge amount of deferred revenue, the possibility of cross-selling the product suite and lengthy customer lifetimes, it’s easy to justify this continued spend.

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Are You Counting Payments as Renewals?

Kellblog

Most investors believe you could better maximize ARR by simply raising more capital and sticking with annual payments. 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.).

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. However, most SaaS companies I have spoken with are incorrectly recording their most important revenue stream.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Excellent, great.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Excellent, great.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56.

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