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.

There are two different types of Deferral Rules


One campaign item record will be reflected in one accounting record including all its information on debtor and payment terms, etc.

For accounting records type 'revenue' amount equals N2, whereas accounting records type 'cost' amount equals TpcAmount.

Set up your Accrual 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:


Define the Matching Criteria

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

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

Accounting RuleProcessAccounting Record Type (Debit/Credit)
Deferral - CostDeferral CreationDeferral - Cost
Deferral - CostDeferral ReverseDeferral - Cost - Reverse
Deferral - RevenueDeferral CreationDeferral - Revenue
Deferral - RevenueDeferral ReverseDeferral - Revenue - Reverse