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Assets

Fixed asset lifecycle — capitalization, depreciation schedules, movement, repair, maintenance and disposal.

Fixed asset lifecycle: Asset, Asset Category, depreciation schedules, capitalization, repair, movement and value adjustment.

What it does

Assets tracks capital items from purchase to disposal. An Asset is created from a Purchase Invoice or Receipt line for a fixed-asset item, then generates an Asset Depreciation Schedule per finance book. Each depreciation posting, value adjustment, sale or scrap writes its own accounting entry, so the asset register and the general ledger stay in step.

Key features

  • Asset Category — per-company accounts and default depreciation method, rate and frequency.
  • Depreciation — Straight Line, Double Declining and Written Down Value, with multiple finance books and shift-based schedules.
  • Capitalization — combine stock items, service costs and existing assets into a new capital asset.
  • Movement and custody — Asset Movement between locations, employees and warehouses; Asset Activity as an audit trail.
  • Maintenance and repair — Asset Maintenance schedules and logs, plus Asset Repair with cost capitalization.
  • Disposal — sale or scrap, with automatic gain/loss posting and value adjustment support.

Entity relationships

Each diagram below is one connected cluster of entities. Edges are labelled with the fieldname that carries them — see relationship notation for how to read the crow’s feet.

Asset

Asset anchors the fixed-asset lifecycle, connecting acquisition and capitalization with depreciation, custody, movement, maintenance, repair, and value adjustments.

Split across 2 diagrams so each stays legible; Asset repeats in each.

Document composition

Parent documents and the child tables they own.

Entity reference

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