Question

Depreciation Method for Remaining Value over Remaining Life

  • 28 July 2021
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Hello.  I created the asset below and imported an acquisition value of $2,409.15 and an accumulated depreciation of $2,179.69, so it’s remaining value is $229.46 . It has 8 months of life remaining. Is there a depreciation method that is already in IFS that can be used to depreciate the remaining value over the remaining 8 months of its life? And if so, how can it be set up in the Books tab of the object? Any assistance would be much appreciated.

 

 

 


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Hi @andrei.borromeo 

You can select any of the available depreciation method in the IFS application and define the estimated life as 8 months.

 


Hope this will help you.

Best regards
Heshani​​​​​​​

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Hi Andrei,

You have to create depreciation method by using correct method type and connect it to books tab & define the estimated life. Please note that estimated life need to define from the acquisition date.  

Eg; if acquisition date is 01st of April 2020, estimated life is 02y 00m & remaining life is 08 months as at 31/07/2021.

Please refer below screen preview

 

Best Regards

Narmada

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Hi @Heshani Vidanapathirana .  I set the depreciation as such:

 

 

 

My initial thought was that this is telling IFS that it should depreciate the remaining $229.46 over 8 months, so one month’s depreciation would be $28.68. 

 

However, when I create a depreciation proposal, the amount that will be depreciated is the entire amount:

 

Do you have an idea as to why it is doing this? Would it have something to do with the acquisition date perhaps?

 

 

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Hi, 
Your object acquisition date is October 2011. Your last depreciation period provided at imported depreciation was May 2021 and you want, I think, to have depreciation for  8 moths, i.e.  June 2021-January 2022 in IFS.

You should set then this object estimated life as 10 years 4 months (October 2011- January 2022).