RE: How to transfer CWIP costs to Fixed Assets?
Hello,
Many have asked this question and Construction in Progress is maintained manually in Fixed Assets. What my customers/clients do, per training, is to record the each Invoice (CIP) against a Fixed Asset Card with NO starting Depreciation Date. They create a Posting Group called CIP so the Debit is to CIP and offset to AP when the Purchase Invoice is posted. When the CIP is completed, they do the following:
1. Change the Posting Group on the Asset Card to the actual Asset Posting Group
2. Record a General Journal moving the actual Acquisition Cost of the Fixed Asset from CIP to Actual Asset GL Account (I.e. from CIP to Building or Leasehold Improvement).
Then the Asset Card has a Starting Depreciation Date and you can begin Depreciating.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Steve