Resolving Unreported Sales & Unreported Costs

When creating statements, it is possible that some sales or costs included in a Period are not reported to a statement. This usually happens when the setup is incomplete and Curve does not have all the required information to assign a sale or cost correctly.

Curve identifies these lines as Unreported and makes them available through dedicated reports.

Why sales or cost lines become unreported

There are four common scenarios that can cause a sales or cost line to remain unreported:

1. No participating contract

   The Track or Release has no participating Contract attached.

2. Inactive contract

   The participating Contract exists but is not active.

3. Missing applicable term

   The Contract does not contain a sales term or cost term that covers the specific sales or cost line. Example: a Contract only includes physical sales terms, so digital sales lines are ignored.

4. Missing calculation inputs

   A required calculation field is blank.

   Examples:

   • A royalty should be calculated on PPD, but no Main Dealer Price value is set on the Release.
   • A royalty should be calculated on Gross Receipts, Unit Price, or Retail Price, but the Gross Amount, Per Unit Rate, or Retail Price fields respectively were not populated when ingesting the sales data.

How Curve flags unreported sales and costs

Unreported Sales CSV

With each Period, Curve generates an Unreported Sales CSV. This file lists sales lines that were not reported to any contract at all. In this report:

• Sales linked to a Track or Release that has no participating contract will appear in this CSV.
• Invalid sales lines are excluded.
• Sales linked to a Contract with a different Accounting Period Type than the Period are also excluded.

You can download this report by going into the relevant Period, click the Download button in the top right corner, and to select the Unreported Sales option. Please note that when reprocessing individual Statements, Curve does not automatically regenerate the Unreported CSV. If reprocessed Statements affect the Unreported CSV, you will be prompted to either download the original version or generate a new one.

Fixed Report for Unreported Sales

In addition to the CSV, Curve provides a Fixed Report for Unreported Sales. This report:

• Lists sales lines that were not reported to at least one contract, even if the same sales line was successfully reported to one or more other contracts.
• Is especially useful when multiple contracts are linked to the same Track and a sales line was not reported to all of them.
• Shows unreported sales per contract, which means sales with no contract participation will not appear here.
• Invalid sales lines are excluded.
• Sales linked to a Contract with a different Accounting Period Type than the Period are also excluded.

To download your Fixed Report for the Unreported Sales, please go to Data > Reports and hit the +Create button at the top right of the screen. Select the "Fixed Report" option and select "Unreported". Please note that when creating this report, it will review which lines it expects to have been reported to which Contracts based on the setup of that exact moment; so if new Contracts were linked against Tracks/Releases since your processed your Period, you can expect to find these in this report also.

Because the standard Unreported CSV and Fixed Unreported CSV highlight different scenarios, it is strongly recommended to consult both for a complete picture.

Unreported Costs CSV

Unreported costs are flagged separately in the Unreported Costs CSV, following the same general principles as the standard unreported sales csv.

Resolving unreported lines

Once you have identified and fixed the underlying issues which caused the line to go unreported, you can:

• Reprocess the entire Period, or
• Reprocess the relevant Statements individually.

As the Unreported Sales file updates, the goal should be to reduce the number of unreported lines to zero.

As all lines in a sales file are reported, you can also expect to find a Fully Reported status against this sales file. Though there may still be various reasons why the file still has a Partially Reported or Unreported status.

If there are unreported lines remaining in your Period which you wish to carry forward to the next Period, you can do so by making use of our Suspense functionality.