<I have been wondering about the "on-going payment" myself... My guess is they will just be rolled into Allicense 1/4 earnings and we will not be able to tell what is what....>
That's a good question, and one which I would think any bean counter could address.
I would assume that we are still not talking royalties on individual units and we are just talking a lump sum but payable in installments. If so, the deal is for X and whatever is still owed upon close of the quarterly books ought to show up in accounts receivable? IMHO, PTSC does have to account for it somewhere. You can't have parties owing us $ and have no accounting for it. At least you wounldn't think so.
But even so, we would probably only have a single number and have nay idea how many companies are involved and how long they have to pay us. Still guessing.
And an interesting question comes to mind. Unless these installment payments are accounted for separately, how do we keep them from getting rolled up with other license payments, against which expenses are filed. One would think that such a rolling up would mean that the amount owed to PTSC on a net net basis is unknown since expenses are not fixed. Hmmmm.????
If there are some knowledgeable folks willing to commment on this, TIA
GLTA, Opty