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title: SLA Penalties
description: A variable consideration constraint requiring the seller to refund money or issue credits if service level agreements are failed. These expected penal...
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tags: ['asc-606', 'Revenue']
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# SLA Penalties

## The ASC 606 Standard

A variable consideration constraint requiring the seller to refund money or issue credits if service level agreements are failed. These expected penalties must reduce the total recognized transaction price.

## The Real-World Scenario

Your cloud infrastructure experiences a 2-hour outage, triggering a contractual clause that forces you to credit 5% of all client bills for the month.

## The Spreadsheet Breaking Point

Finance teams rarely have real-time visibility into engineering downtime, meaning manual spreadsheets almost never reflect current SLA liabilities.

## The Hidden Cost to the Bottom Line

Recognizing full revenue when SLA penalties are owed artificially inflates earnings and forces embarrassing downward restatements later.

## How GAAPX Eliminates the Risk

Monitors operational uptime integrations and automatically applies SLA constraints to revenue forecasts to prevent over-recognition.