Revenue Recognition Standards

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[Verse 1]
When customers and vendors shake hands on a deal
IFRS fifteen and ASC six-oh-six reveal
The moment cash becomes legitimate gain
Five stepping stones through accounting's domain
A contract births obligation's thread
Performance duties dancing in your head

[Chorus]
Identify, identify the contract first
Stand alone prices, what's each promise worth
Allocate the transaction, don't disperse
Satisfy performance, timing's not reversed
Recognize revenue when control transfers
Five steps climbing, memory never errs

[Verse 2]
Distinct goods weaving through the customer's need
Each promise carved from commercial deed
Transaction price adjustments floating free
Variable payments, financing degree
Time value money when payment's delayed
More than twelve months, discount's displayed

[Chorus]
Identify, identify the contract first
Stand alone prices, what's each promise worth
Allocate the transaction, don't disperse
Satisfy performance, timing's not reversed
Recognize revenue when control transfers
Five steps climbing, memory never errs

[Bridge]
Over time or at a point, satisfaction flows
Asset building for the customer shows
Incremental costs of contracts capitalize
Amortize benefits as revenue flies
Both standards married in convergence bright
Same five pillars, same accounting sight

[Verse 3]
Modifications ripple through existing terms
Prospective treatment when the contract squirms
Disclosure paints the revenue landscape wide
Remaining obligations cannot hide
Principal versus agent, gross or net
Control determines what the books beget

[Chorus]
Identify, identify the contract first
Stand alone prices, what's each promise worth
Allocate the transaction, don't disperse
Satisfy performance, timing's not reversed
Recognize revenue when control transfers
Five steps climbing, memory never errs

[Outro]
IFRS and GAAP converged as one
Revenue recognition's transformation done
Five sacred steps, the golden thread
Through every transaction, clearly led

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