The register
- Category, purchase date, supplier and cost on every asset
- Its own code, so the same laptop is not entered twice
- The site or branch it belongs to
One register that knows what you bought, what it has cost you since, who is holding it and what it is worth today. Depreciation runs post themselves to the ledger, so the figure on the balance sheet is the register - not a spreadsheet someone reconciles to it.
What you bought, how it is being written down, who is holding it, what it has been through and what happens when it goes - each against the same asset, and each landing in the ledger where it should.
Run the period and the charge is calculated on each asset’s own method and rate, then written to the ledger as a journal. Nobody rebuilds the schedule in a spreadsheet, and nobody forgets the month you were busy.
An asset is assigned to a person, a department or a site, and a transfer moves it with a date against it. When something cannot be found, the question is answerable rather than a conversation.
Servicing and repairs are logged against the asset, not filed under the month they happened. Over a few years that history is what tells you whether the van is worth keeping.
Depreciation is arithmetic. What goes wrong is everything around it - the asset bought in March that nobody added, the one sold that is still being written down, the laptop that left with someone in 2024.
An asset arrives as a purchase like anything else, so it is on the register from the day it is bought rather than the day somebody remembers to add it to the sheet.
Disposing of an asset takes its cost and its accumulated depreciation out in the same step and posts the gain or loss. It stops being charged because it has actually gone, not because someone deleted a row.
Every asset has its purchase behind it, its method and rate on it, and its charge posted period by period. That is the answer to most of what gets asked, ready before it is asked.
Bring the register across as a CSV with cost, purchase date, method, rate and the accumulated depreciation booked so far. The schedule carries on from where it is - you are not restarting anything at full cost.
Depreciation, disposals and the gain or loss post to the same ledger as everything else, into a period that can be closed.
An asset starts as a purchase order and a vendor bill, so its cost on the register is the cost you were charged.
The workshop equipment on the register is the equipment the job cards are run on.
Net book value and the year’s movement, from the register rather than a working paper.
If your question isn’t here, ask - we’d rather tell you it doesn’t do something than have you find out at year-end.
<p>Straight-line and reducing balance, chosen per asset rather than set once for the whole register. Rate and useful life sit on the asset, so two categories can be written down differently without keeping two schedules.</p>
<p>Yes. A period run calculates the charge on each asset and writes the journal - depreciation expense against accumulated depreciation - into the same general ledger everything else posts to. There is no re-keying and no separate month-end task.</p>
<p>Yes. Assets are assigned to a person, a department or a location, and transfers are recorded with a date. You can look at one asset and see who has it, or at one person and see everything they are holding.</p>
<p>Yes. Servicing and repairs are logged against the asset with their cost, so the history stays with the vehicle or the machine rather than being spread across the months it happened in. It is what makes a repair-or-replace decision an evidenced one.</p>
<p>Disposal takes the cost and the accumulated depreciation out together and posts the gain or loss. The asset stops being depreciated because it has gone, which is the failure the spreadsheet version usually has.</p>
<p>Yes, and you should not have to restart anything. Bring cost, purchase date, method, rate and the accumulated depreciation booked so far, and the schedule continues from there. Net book value at the changeover should agree with your last balance sheet - that is the check we do with you.</p>
<p>Fixed assets and depreciation are on Professional and Enterprise. Basic does not include them, so if the register is the reason you are looking, Professional is the plan to price. The comparison on the pricing page shows it line by line.</p>
Start free today - no card, no lock-in. Or send us your asset list with its accumulated depreciation, and we’ll bring it across with you.
Someone will be in touch, usually the same working day.
Twenty minutes on your own numbers. No slides.