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The audit committee asks you to explain the draft revenue recognition footnote for a usage-based software business in plain English. Walk me through how you'd do it.

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I'd open with what the company sells and when it earns the money: customers pay a fixed subscription plus fees for what they use; the subscription is earned evenly over the contrac…

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