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Depreciation Start Date?

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Dear Community,

I have a following doubt regarding depreciation calculation.

We use 'Calculate Depreciation' to find Depreciation in financial statements.

However, the job asks me 'Depreciation Start date' during the process.

So I entered the start date of fiscal year for the purpose.

Even though I acquired the fixed asset during the beginning of half year, the depreciation batch job is calculating depreciation from the beginning of the Fiscal year.

Does this mean that I need to manually update the Depreciation Start date with Acquisition Date?

Or whether any setup missing in this case?

Enlighten please..  :(

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    Saurabh Shah Profile Picture
    Saurabh Shah 4,560 on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Yes. After putting purchase date as a depreciation. Is this solve your issue? or it is still there?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Okay..

    As per your reply

    1. Go to Fixed Assets
    2. First I create FA Card say Motor Car (VX 123)
    3. Assign Depreciation book in line
    4. Put Depreciation start date (Purchase Date)
    5. Go to Purchase Order
    6. Create Purchase Order
    7. Select the Fixed Asset in lines( VX 123)
    8. Enter Purchase Date
    9. Convert to Purchase Invoice

    Is this process to be followed?

    This is the same I am doing so far..

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    Saurabh Shah Profile Picture
    Saurabh Shah 4,560 on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Hi Jiju,

    You need to define the Depreciation start date exactly as from which you want to consider to do it. so if you have defined it as a beginning of fiscal year then system will consider it.

    Let me know if you need any other info.

    Saurabh

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    I know that system is considering that date.

    I think the system is not considering 'Acquisition date' for the process.

    Is there anything missing?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    I put the depreciation starting date as 01-04-2014 (Beginning of Fiscal year)

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    Saurabh Shah Profile Picture
    Saurabh Shah 4,560 on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Hi Jiju,

    Can you please check the depreciation starting date on your FA Card? system is considering that particular date for depreciation calculation.

    Let me know.

    -Saurabh Shah

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Hello Saurabh,

    I checked, the code is same.

    But this is not working..

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Thanks Saurabh,

    Let me check..

    If not resolved, you shall reproduce the scenario..

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    Saurabh Shah Profile Picture
    Saurabh Shah 4,560 on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    Yes, It is.

    If in your case it is not considering the acquisition cost then there is something needs to debug. I found below code writen in NAV

    I have not reproduced the case but if you need let me know.

    -Saurabh Shah

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Depreciation Start Date?

    When I hit 'F1' in Depreciation Start date, the following came

    "Depreciation Starting Date Field

    See Also  

    Specifies the date on which you want the depreciation calculation to start.

    The program uses this date to calculate the No. of Depreciation Days field for the first depreciation of the asset.

    The date is only used if there are no entries other than acquisition cost and salvage value."

     

    Doesn't this mean that if there is acquisition cost, the Depreciation Starting Date is ignored and acquisition date is considered?

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