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However the Inventory application uses a slightly different calculation from the straight-line method.The total depreciation as of the end of the last fiscal year (called Life-to-date Depreciation) is stored for each item. The system uses the following calculation for annual depreciation. The depreciation for a part of a year will be the annual depreciation pro-rated for the number of months involved.
This formula protects the calculation from being sensitive to changes in original cost, life expectancy, etc. Thus, if an improvement (additional acquisition) is done to an item, the amount of depreciation taken from that point on will reflect the increase or decrease to the original cost. Depreciation already taken in prior years will not be affected. Listed below are two examples of calculating depreciation for the life of the items.
Tag #1: $10,000 original cost depreciated over 5 years acquired 01/01/2015 (FY15) with a salvage value of 1000.00. The item should be completely depreciated in five years.
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LTD depreciation field is not modifiable when editing an item in Transactions>Items. If you want to change an item’s existing LTD depreciation to a specific value, you must edit the item and post a Depreciation Transaction. A Depreciation Transaction can only be created for active items that have not been fully depreciated and can only be created for the current fiscal year. The amount entered will be added (or subtracted if entering a negative adjustment) to the existing LTD amount.
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