Finance Report
The Finance Report is one of the most comprehensive tools in wayahead — an essential resource for any agency managing revenue recognition. Whether you're handling accruals and deferrals on sales invoices and expenses from Streamtime, or simply looking for a more elegant way to manage pre-billings, this report has you covered.
Accruals and deferrals made easy
The report gives you a clear view of your finances across a single financial year, including past and future periods. Its purpose is simple: to help you control revenue recognition for each job, so you can accurately track actual revenue, cost, and contribution throughout the year.
You can group, filter, and summarise jobs in different views to access exactly the information you need. wayahead calculates monthly revenue — past and future — based on job plans, completed tasks, and time entries in Streamtime. From there, you can enter recognised values as accruals and deferrals against sales invoices and expenses, giving you a complete overview all your finances across the financial year.
Unlike spreadsheets, wayahead stays in constant sync with Streamtime and can also pull in data from other sources, such as the Forecast Report and the Overservice Report, making it a truly integrated solution.
Locking data, spotting issues
Once all revenue is entered for the month, the finance team can lock the report values — preventing project managers from accidentally altering revenue in past months. If adjustments are needed, only users with the appropriate permissions can step in to make changes.
The report also helps you spot potential issues, such as when revenue recognition doesn’t align with the production value of your jobs.
Detail view
In the details panel, job finances are summarised and charted in a variety of ways. Using time entries, the job plan, and item completion dates, wayahead calculates exactly how much should be recognised on the job each month. Values can then be easily added to the corresponding invoices or expenses until the entire job is fully recognised.
You can toggle the view between monthly totals and cumulative totals, while built-in automations for copying and calculating data help you enter the right numbers quickly and easily.
Insights
The jobs overview gives you a clear figure of the movements in accruals and deferrals: how much money was moved into this month and how much was moved out from this month to others. You can even get a detailed listing of all the movements per month or for the entire year.
Overview Video
Overview video on how to use the Finance report to manage revenue recognition.