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Mark Stokes CFO

New Accounting Regulations for 2011

Asked on May 9, 2013

I always get caught out on new accounting regs and then end up getting hit during the year as I run into them, one by one. For a software and services company, are there any new major accounting regulations coming in to effect in 2011 that I had better be on top of? Thanks.

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Michael Scherbourg CFO • January 3, 2011

Lots of changes in revenue recognition. The largest areas to watch for are if you have multi-element arrangements (like products + professional services + maintenance, etc.) which has been hugely revamped in 08-1. And traditional software revenue recognition (SOP 97-2) has been scaled back from certain situations (software + hardware). These are two very large changes which you should already be on top of b/c they are applicable now!

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