Hey great question. I’ve often thought the same thing about bookings and tcv.
For all intensive purposes they are the same. If you really wanted to split hairs, the booking is only for that period / calendar year. It only counts against the sales reps quota retirement for that year. In other words, the booking is only counted or associated with the period it occurred.
But TCV continues for the length of the contract. So the total contract value in year 2 is carried as the same as in year 1.
Haha sorry I deleted the comment because I figured it out right after I posted it, but I appreciate the response. Keep up all the great work, your articles rock.
Hey great question. I’ve often thought the same thing about bookings and tcv.
For all intensive purposes they are the same. If you really wanted to split hairs, the booking is only for that period / calendar year. It only counts against the sales reps quota retirement for that year. In other words, the booking is only counted or associated with the period it occurred.
But TCV continues for the length of the contract. So the total contract value in year 2 is carried as the same as in year 1.
Haha sorry I deleted the comment because I figured it out right after I posted it, but I appreciate the response. Keep up all the great work, your articles rock.
Lol no worries. Glad you enjoyed. Give me a shout if you think of any good topics to cover
In the table below item 4/ on RPO (the second table in the article), why is RPO shown as $355 in Jan and not $715?
I've always just relied on revenue as reported in quarterly filings...am I doing something wrong? (!)
Lol no, I agree. companies are printing some great numbers still regardless of what the GDP number say