Calculating Depreciation in Business Central After Adding Value to Fixed Assets Already in Service

Have you ever added a Fixed Asset to your asset pool and several months later added it to the depreciable basis? Maybe you’ve gotten the final freight charges, or maybe you’ve added more functionality to the original asset, but in either situation, you are not extending the life of the asset.

How do you want depreciation calculated going forward? If you don’t know about the Depr. Acquisition Cost and Depr. Until FA Posting Date fields, you may not get the depreciation you expected. In this article, UG Expert Robb Delprado explains how to calculate the depreciation of fixed assets for which value has already been added in Business Central.