Use these steps to recalculate the depreciation and get the NBV to reach zero:
1. Make a backup of the company database and copy it to a test company. It is recommended to test these steps in a test company first before doing this on your live database.
2. Go to the Asset Book window for the asset. To do this, click
Cards, point to
Fixed Assets, and then click
Book. Enter the appropriate Asset ID and Book ID.
3. In the
Switchover field, click
Straight-Line.
3. Click
Save. You are prompted with following message:
You have changed a depreciation sensitive field. This will result in depreciation values being recalculated. Do you wish to continue?
Click
Yes.4. You are prompted with the following message:
A depreciation sensitive field has changed. Please select one of the following "Reset" options.
Usually you will click to reset the
Life. This will back out all the depreciation for the life of the asset and recalculate it, which could change the depreciation numbers. (Most often you have to reset Life. In some cases, you may get by with only resetting the Year, but if the switchover method needs to take over before the current year, then reset Year may not be sufficient.)
Note Reset
Life will recalculate the depreciation on the asset life to date. Reset
Year will only recalculate the depreciation for the current year. And
Recalculate will only be used going forward.
For more information about these options and depreciation sensitive fields, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
855314 Information about chaning a depreciation-sensitve field in the Asset Book window in Fixed Asset Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP
5. After you have verified the results of the recalculculated depreciation in the test company, follow the same steps in the live company.