An adjustment (sometimes referred to as 'manual adjustment') is any amount of money which has been assigned to a statement by means other than via a sales statement import. These usually include negative expenses or positive advances. Adjustments are always assigned to a specific contract belonging to a licensor.
Publishing adjustments are completely distinct from recording-side adjustments, as they only effect publishing royalties. As such, they need to be assigned separately to publishing contracts. Note that any default recording adjustments applied to a standard release will not be automatically applied to publishing contracts assigned to that release.
To assign adjustments to writers, you must first assign them a publishing contract, then navigate to that contract under Accounting > Licensors:
From there, locate the contract and add a new adjustment:
Recording side adjustments are covered in more detail in this section of the help guide.
Now that you’ve prepared the release, you’re ready to move on to registering it for publishing.