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Assets include - Vehicles, Computers, Mobile Phones, Forklifts, Production Equipment, POS Tills, etc. Anything used by the business as an Asset - and also anything depreciated by the business as a financial asset. 

 

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Overview

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titleFinancial Depreciation

Only Assets owned by you can be financially depreciated

For Asset Depreciation view Financial Fixed Asset Register

 

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Your customers / Suppliers may be Owners, Renters or Current Users of Assets

Useful to track assets provided by others to your customers

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Assigned any Asset to a user - eg: track who was driving the car - or who has that phone or computer.

In the case of Vehicle Rentals the system may update this information in the background.

Current user

  1. Can view from company company / Debtor
  2. Can view from Person / Debtor

Asset Types and Asset Profiles

Assets Types

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Used by the system in lists and to trigger transactions

    • Vehicles (eg Truck, Car, Bus, Trailer)
      • Trucks are used to carry stock (eg Waybills)
      • Buses are used to carry people (eg Shuttle or Tour Buses)
    • Computers, phones etc
    • POS
      • Tills used in the business are defined here
    • Production Equipment
      • Manufacturing Stations are defined here
    • Other assets to track
      • Equipment supplied to customers by others - for example - Fridges or displays or shelving

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  • Planning - an Asset in use
  • Active - an Asset in use that is also Financially Depreciating
  • Inactive - an Asset no longer used - will not appear in Asset lists but can be made active again
  • Closed - an Asset that was depreciated and was then disposed of

Fuel Cards for Vehicles

A Fuel Card may be linked to the Asset to track transactions.

Fuel cards linked to the debtor will simplify the entry of Fuel card Statements - review Creating and Managing Bank Accounts

 

Extended Attributes

Attributes of an asset - many have help tips on the fields (eg Identifiers > Barcode)

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Review the maintenance required on the Asset dashboard

Calendar

will show activities by date for the asset (eg Buses on Tours, Shuttles on Runs, Trucks on Waybills)

Certificates / SOP /

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Registration Expiries

The Dashboard of expiring certificates makes it easy to track the assets that need attention

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Journals linked to Assets

Link to an Asset at the header or line level of any financial transaction in the system

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Examples of journals that are linked to Assets include

  1. Purchase of the Asset
  2. Sale of the Asset
  3. Depreciation Journals
  4. Maintenance Journalspayments
  5. Fuel payments
  6. Lease Payments