How does ScaleXP recognise back-dated revenue?

For purposes of Revenue Recognition, MRR, and ARR reports, ScaleXP will always recognise revenue according to the indicated service Start Date and End Date. The invoice issue date is never taken into account for these types of reports.

For purposes of IFRS / GAAP reporting as well as your suggested accounting journals, ScaleXP will consider the issue date as follows:
- For IFRS/ GAAP reporting, any unaccrued back-dated revenue will be pulled forward to the month of invoice
- For deferred revenue journals, the balance sheet will always exclude any revenue from invoices not yet issued at the balance sheet date;
- ScaleXP will suggest accruing revenue for future-dated invoices. You can choose to accept these suggestions or not.

How can I identify revenue impacting periods prior to the invoice issue date?

The quickest and easiest way to identify revenue impacting prior periods is to use the "invoices issued in" page of ScaleXP, found here (Journals tab>Invoices Issued in).

This page looks at invoices one issue month at a time.

On this page, sort by "Start date" such that the earliest date is listed first.

Look for start dates which precede the invoice issue month.

Repeat as required.

Note - another option is to use the Accrued revenue page to review invoices suggested for accrual.