Deferral Accounting Rules are used to report earnings/costs which should be assigned to a later Accounting Period. For example, you decide to bill a Media Campaign in advance of the actual run time. In this situation, you receive income in an accounting period, that should be assigned to a later one. Deferral rules establish where this cost/revenue should be reported and can be used to create the necessary Accounting Records accordingly.

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There are two different types of Deferral Rules

• Deferral - Cost -  this is used to define the rules for deferral creation related to costs

• Deferral - Revenue - this is used to define the rules for deferral creation related to revenue

Set up your Deferral Rules

In order to create a rule, you need only to give your rule a name. To ensure the rule creates the correct Accounting Record, and it is matched to the correct Campaign Item, you can optionally enter the following:

• Account Number, Cost Center, Internal Order, etc

• A validity period

• If this is a Third Party Rule, please enter a TPC Account

• The applicable Publisher Payout Condition

• Dunning Block - check this checkbox if you like to block dunning for a rule. This field gets also copied into your Accounting Record

• Optionally, you can also add a description

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Define the Matching Criteria

Here you can define the relevant matching criteria for your rule. Read more in the Accounting Interface Matching & Transfer Fieldlist.Image Removed

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Depending on which process deferral rules are used in, they can make following Accounting Records: