A discount revenue arises when a business receives a discount from a creditor to settle an account for less than the full amount owed. There are three key characteristics of a discount revenue: 1) It represents a savings in the outflows of economic benefits for the business as they pay less cash to the creditor, 2) It decreases the liabilities of the business as the amount owed to the creditor is reduced, and 3) It increases the owner's equity of the business. To record a discount revenue, businesses must add a discount revenue column to the cash payments journal and post the total amount from this column as a credit to creditors and debit to discount revenue at the end of the period.