Using the Deferred Revenue Reconciliation (Beta) Dashboard

The Deferred Revenue Reconciliation (Beta) dashboard enables you to perform the following actions:

  • Review the activity on your deferred revenue account.
  • Reconcile your general ledger account against the subsystems that create your invoicing and recognition transactions.
  • Identify variances such as missing recognition transactions.

This dashboard is a beta feature and is currently in development. For more information, and to leave your feedback for this product, see Deferred Revenue Reconciliation (Beta) Dashboard Feedback.

Datasets

Data displayed in this dashboard is derived from the following datasets:

  • Recognition Transactions. This dataset uses objects and fields derived from Revenue Management.
  • Billing Documents. This dataset uses fields derived from the Billing Document object in Billing Central, and additional objects and fields derived from Accounting and Foundations.
  • Financial Transactions. This dataset uses objects and fields derived from Accounting.

For more information on these datasets and the preconditions for their creation and use, see Dashboards, Billing Documents Fields, Financial Transactions Fields Recognition Transactions Fields.

Managing Filters

Your filter selections determine the data displayed on the Reconciliation, General Ledger, Revenue Management and Billing Documents pages. By default, the filters panel is displayed in this dashboard. You can toggle between hiding and displaying the filters panel by clicking . To set or change your filters, use the following drop-down options:

  • Company: select the company you want to see data for.
  • Currency: select the documents you want to see data for, based on their currency.
    Note: This dashboard runs in document currency only.
  • GLA: select the GLA you want to see data for.
  • Period: select the financial year and period you want to see data for.
Warning:

When picking your initial values for this dashboard, we recommend that you apply and save global filters from the Reconciliation page only.

Using Dashboard Pages

The Deferred Revenue Reconciliation (Beta) dashboard contains the following pages, tables, local filters and components:

Note:

To order columns displayed in the tables on the General Ledger, Revenue Management and Billing Documents pages, hover over the column header and click .

Drilling Through to Documents

You can drill through to view details of records displayed in rows under the following table columns:

Drillable Columns

Page

Column

General Ledger Transaction Name
Transaction Line Name
Transaction Document Number
Revenue  Management Transaction Number
Transaction Line Number
Primary Object Record Name
  Billing Documents Document Number
Document Line
Contract Name

To view details of a selected record:

  1. Click the cell you want to drill. Drillable cells are highlighted in bold blue text. Depending on your selection, a Billing Central or Revenue Management license is required to view further details.
  2. Click Arrow , then click Open Record.
  3. The source record opens in the Billing Central or Revenue Management app.