On this tab, you can view general information about the recognition of current revenues in a specific financial period or enter such information.

Note that the required fields are: Entity and Responsible.

The "Revenue Recognition (create)" form. The Main tab

<Auto> in the Number field indicates that a number for this document is assigned automatically when you save the document. The From field is populated automatically with the current business date. You can select another date, if necessary.

In the Entity field, select the entity of your company for which this document is being prepared. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on: Administration > Settings > General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents; for this, refer to Personal Settings. If you have not selected your default entity, the entity, which was defined first, will be used as the system default value.

In the Responsible field, you can select an employee who is responsible for this revenue recognition document.

The document totals and other Information

At the bottom of the form, the Total Due field shows the document total as the sum of all listed revenue amounts to be recognized in this month.

Also, you can view who created this document and the current status of the document. The status can be one of the following:

• New (document was created, but not recorded to the database)
• Not Posted (document was recorded, but not posted)
• Posted (document was posted)
• Marked for Deletion (document was marked to be deleted)

The toolbar buttons

After filling out the tab, click the Save button to save your work. After filling out all the tabs, click Post to post the document without closing it or Post and close to post and close the document.

For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.