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The user requires the Secure Feature "FixedAssetManagement" to use this functionality

Setting up the GL Control Accounts

For Asset Sales

For Depreciation Offset

For Low Value Pool

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Setting up Fixed Asset Classifications

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Normally Asset Accounts and Depreciation Accounts are in the Assets - Fixed Assets section of your GL

The Asset must be owned by the Host Company

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So each Asset that is to have a financial value must be linked to a Fixed Asset Class

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Low value Pool Asset Class

The low value pool has special treatment of depreciation calculations. To

Once you have setup the Low Value Pool use nominate it in the GL Control Accounts

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Setting up the GL Account to use for Asset Sales

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Setting up the Initial Value of the Asset

Supplier invoice to purchase the Asset

Asset value comes from Supplier Invoices that:

  1. Have a Tax code of CAP
  2. Have been linked to the Asset at the line level
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Note that the GL code for the Capital value lines will be forced to be the same as the Asset class linked to the Asset

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The Asset will have a link to the journal/s - choose link type "Asset" and enter the Asset code to create the link

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Create the Financial Asset Book Value

Once all the Creditor invoices you want to have included in the initial asset value have been linked to the asset - you can create the Asset Financial Value.

The Current book value is found on the Asset Screen

 

Creating Depreciation Journals - a manual monthly end of month task.

First the asset must have

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Note

If the Asset was owned for a part of a month (ie was purchased during a month) - the system automatically only calculates the depreciation for that part of the month.

Depreciation is only calculated for assets with a financial book value. Assets that were written off during a month will the depreciation journal written at the time of the write off and must be written off before the mass depreciation journal is written.

First setting up or when purchasing other companies

When you are first setting up in the system you will not have an Creditor Invoice to create the Asset Value

When you purchase a company they will have assets already on their books and you will not have a Creditor Invoice to create the Asset Value