Finance & Accounting / Revenue Operations
Remaining Performance Obligations RPO (aka Backlog, cRPO for current)
The total dollar value of signed contracts you have not yet recognized as revenue, booked but not delivered.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
RPO is the ASC 606 disclosure (606-10-50-13); "backlog" is the operational term sales and ops use, and they frequently diverge.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: FASB ASC 606-10-50-13 through 50-15 · IFRS 15.120