line with the recognition of sales revenue. The relevant booking date of earned commission is the invoice date of the
sales order. Commissions you pay to a 3rd party are booked as a deduction on the purpose (product)-level.
6.3.5 Deductions
Sales revenue already includes deducted rebates and other granted discounts and price reductions assigned to sales
items. Hence the account Trade discounts is obsolete and should not be used. Deductions that can’t be assigned to
individual orders are allocated on the P&L account Sales deductions and will be explained in chapter Operating
performance as they are below Net Sales on the P&L. Net Sales at Metrohm Group is the amount of sales generated
by a Metrohm Group company or participation after deducting returns, allowances for damaged or missing goods
and any discounts allowed. The Net Turnover reported on your financial statements is a net sales number, reflecting
these deductions.
If a customer takes advantage of a discount and pays less than the full amount of an invoice, you record the discount
as a debit to the sales discounts account and a credit to the accounts receivable account. The sales discounts account
appears in the income statement and is a contra revenue account, which means that it offsets gross sales, resulting
in a smaller net sales figure.
You may choose to simply present your net sales in your income statement, rather than breaking out the gross sales
and sales discounts separately. This is most common at Metrohm Group, because usually the sales discount amount
is so small that a separate presentation does not yield any material additional information for readers.
For example if you issue a $10’000 invoice to a customer that offers a 2% discount if the customer pays the invoice
within 10 days. The customer does so, sending in a payment of $9’800. You record the payment within this
transaction:
DEBIT Cash $9’800
DEBIT Sales Discount $200
CREDIT Accounts Receivables $10’000
6.3.6 Kits
Revenue generated by the sale of a package (sales kit) is assigned to the main product group (not broken down to
several product groups) even if the kit may include parts of other product groups and/or accessories. This means that
there’s only one product group for a kit. It is possible to setup and sell kits made up of several items. For example a
particular kind of Titrando might be bundled with a Dosino and other parts. It is possible to prepare kits and have kits
added automatically to the order. Respective system functionality should be:
– The kit master should be the item with the billing quantity on it.
– The kit master should not be warehoused, i.e it should be non-physical
– The kits items needs to appear on the picking list and delivery note
– The kit individual items needs to be considered by the master planning
– The kit individual items should be automatically added to the sales order