That doesn't make any sense because the revenue is already booked for the sale which has nothing to do with when the delivery truck actually arrives.

Over the long run, companies that spend resources on this micromanagement of earnings probably are not seeing the forest for the trees. I cringe thinking about how much time and top talent at a company is spent preparing for earnings rather than spending those hours improving the business itself.

I worked at a previous listed company where a single $6MM order of hardware being pushed out a week made quarterly p&l positive. Im absolutely sure the same situation occurred every other quarter as well in some part of the business I didnt see.

Likewise, if you know you've already got the current quarter in the bag, but the next quarter is looking soft, you tell that truck driver to slow down!

If you can't be arsed to ship it before the last day of the report, it's your fault and asking the truck driver to drive like a maniac to compensate is amateurish, dangerous.

That's not something I'd be proud of.

Early in my career I worked at a place where the sales people would half-joke about signing deals on December 40th -- to claim it in the previous quarter/year.

Okay, what's that to say it won't be the same but even worse on a 6mo reporting schedule?

General Electric has a history of using that exact trick... just with jet engines and power generators and medical devices that can represent much larger amounts of revenue.

"We risk everyones lives in order to have a barely just-in-time warehouse on shipments in the low 8 figures."

Cool.

What company is this?

I don’t get it, why not just say “oh we were 15 million short that quarter and 15 million ahead this one so it’s all good”

Like why get hung up on these arbitrary cutoffs