Entering and depreciating missed assets.

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Our purchasing department uses corporate credit cards to make certain purchases throughout the year. However, these purchases don't always get entered into the G/L in a timely manner so I find out months later a certain item was capitalized and now shows up in the asset accounts. What's the best way to enter this asset and bring depreciation up to the current period. Will adjustments need to be made to all prior depreciation posts in the G/L, or can one be made to catch up, and continue from the current month forward?

Thanks in advance!

H.I

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    Hello Hector,
    You can add these assets into the Fixed Assets application with the correct service date. The program will do a catch up of the depreciation to the most current date that you ran depreciation for (that included these particular assets).
    Please let us know if you need further assistance on your question.

    ~ Lovisa
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    Hi Hector,

    If you don't want the asset's cost or depreciation expense to appear in depreciation reports prior to the period you recorded it on your G/L do this:

    1) Set your File > Edit Company > Book Overrides tab > Adjustments field to "Immediate".

    2)  Create the asset using the correct placed in service date AND enter a Beginning Date of the month end before you want it to appear and catch up depreciation.

    3) Enter $0.00 for Beginning YTD and Beginning Accum. This tells the system you had not recorded any depreciation on it as of the beginning date. 

    4) Save

    When you calculate depreciation for the period after the Beginning Date, catch up and regular depreciation will be included.

    Example: Asset was acquired 2/10/2017, accounting recorded it on the G/L on 4/28/2017. Enter the Beginning Date of 3/2017, or 3/31/2017, if using Premier Depreciation.

    When depreciation is calculated and run for April 2017, it will have 3 months of depreciation - February, March and April. This assumes using the SL or SF depreciation method, since they would take both take a full month of depreciation in February. 

    Ann Donie