Manual revenue recognition breaks down as contracts and usage-based billing scale
Finance teams managing revenue recognition in spreadsheets struggle with inconsistent treatment of contract modifications under ASC 606, key-person dependency on a single spreadsheet owner, and the inability to calculate usage-based billing accurately. This is a structural accounting problem affecting any B2B company as contract volume and billing complexity grow.
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