Implementing Cloud Financials: From Empty Pod to Go-Live · Module 11 · Fixed Assets
The asset model
Lesson 105 of 153 · 1 min
The object map: book → category → asset → assignment. What Assets does is hold capitalised spend, spread it over a useful life, track where it is and who has it, and handle disposal. Corporate versus tax books is the single most important concept here. The same asset, depreciated two different ways, for two different audiences: corporate for the financial statements, tax for the tax return. Where assets come from: manual entry, mass additions from Payables, or a legacy conversion. Most real assets arrive via Payables, which is why the mass additions lesson matters more than the manual one. The lifecycle is addition, depreciation, adjustment or transfer, retirement. Every asset walks that path. And the warning that arrives on schedule: Assets requires a labelled cost centre segment. If the chart of accounts module skipped it, Assets cannot be configured. That is the design debt promised six modules ago — and…
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