• integrating fully depreciated assets

    We acquired a company where all the assets were fully depreciated. I am trying to add the fully depreciated assets to our Sage Fixed Assets program. How do I add an asset with value that is already fully depreciated?
  • Create New Development SQL Database

    Hi, my company is using FAS Premier Depreciation and Tracking software. We have an Application server with FAS installed and then we have a SQL server instance with the production DB on it. We are in need of creating a 2nd SQL DB but on a differnet SQL…
  • November Current Depreciation is too high

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    When I ran depreciation for November month end, it appears that the current depreciation is multiplied by seven on all reports. Acquired Value and Current Accum Depreciation are correct. Re-running it has made no difference, even when selecting "Force…
  • What are the best practices for request of prior year reports by auditors?

    Hello, I have our live FAS listing in the current year (2015), and run monthly depreciation. When I am asked by auditors for FAS listing of prior years, (for example: 2011), I open a save copy of the 2011 company, create a report and send it over. However…
  • Beginning Balance vs. Acquisitions on FA Summary

    I have assets that were added into Sage Fixed Assets in 2015, but the actual DPIS is in 2014. I need to be able to show the Cost of the asset in the Additions column of the Fixed Asset Summary Report, not the Beginning Balance. I use this report for my…
  • Record catch up depreciation in current period, and show that catch up in the current period, not prior period

    I often have new additions that have a in-service date from several months ago, but the cost was not recorded until the current period. I know that I can back-date the acquisition date and/or the in-service date and catch up depreciation will be calculated…
  • Depreciation by Different groups

    Hi I am using Sage version 2014.1. I am wondering if depreciation can be done by different groups. Meaning to say, I have a company in Sage, where all the assets listed have their own GL Expense Account. I would like to only depreciate a specific…
  • Looking to change Estimated Life and GL Asset and Accum Numbers

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    Hello all, We want to reclassify an asset from machinery to computer equipment. We originally had this asset set up with an estimated life of eight years, now we need it to be changed to five years. The asset has been depreciated for six months already…
  • Install Sage Depreciation Network 2017/1 Error

    Hello, Sage starts fine locally on App-V Sequencer machine. Running in Citrix with MS App-V program starts, but something is wrong, checking sage seats. Can someone help me which Files or Registry keys are missing ? What is the mechanism whenn starting…
  • Fixed Asset Register

    The rate and useful economic life of the asset is in 3 yrs and should be 36 months,the systems is in month.Please, Can someone help where should i go and make such changes ? Please help me
  • Is it possible to create a copy of the database

    Hi all, Is it possible to create a copy of database in SAGE fixed assets? I advised my client to possibly to create a new set of books by creating a copy of the existing databse, but she claims this is impossible task. She claims the only way to do this…
  • Sage Fixed Assets 2015.1 Current Accumulated Depreciation Prior Year

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    Hi all, This is the first year I have needed to use the Sage fixed asset reporting software. I am attempting to gather prior year accumulated depreciation for a client, but am having trouble with the depreciation summary report wanting to pull in current…
  • Enhancements to Software - Best Practice for Asset Setup

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    Background: Our base software was acquired and placed into service on 1/1/2019. Useful life is 5yrs. Enhancements were done and placed into service on 4/1/2019. What is the best approach for the setup of the enhancement asset? Setup as a separate asset…
  • Report for YTD Depreciation That Includes Prior Fiscal Year Catch Up and Current Year Depreciation

    I frequently have situations where I have a project that went into service in November 2018, and I did not find out about it until the current month in 2019. I setup the project in SAGE with a 2018 in-service date. When SAGE calculates depreciation in…
  • Leasehold Improvement useful life and depreciation method changed from last year (39 years/MF100) to this year (15 years/MA150) by itself

    It will not allow me to change it back to 39/MF100 for this year. I am getting an error message that says the 39 year useful life is invalid when I try to change it back.
  • Changing the Useful Life

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    We are wanting to change the useful lives for a class of assets from 7 years to 15 years as of 1/1/2017, without changing any of the prior accumulated depreciation amounts up until that point. I’ve been playing around and doing some research, but everything…
  • Amortizable asset auto populating 5 year SF, but I need it at 15 year estimated life.

    I have an amortizable asset that is a 15 year estimated life asset, but the system is automatically making it a 5 year asset. I have a similar asset placed in service 1 month earlier that worked just fine. This was placed in service 12/17/2018.
  • Not Letting me Adjust Beginning Accumulated Depciation

    Hi! I am having a hard time adjust beginning accumulated depreciation in an asset. I am trying to force Accumulated depreciation as our GL is off compared to Sage since we had a ransom ware attack. For some groups of assets it wont let me change the…
  • V. 2014 Sage Fixed Assets Question - Mass Disposal Inquiry

    I inherited my Authority's current Sage Fixed Assets predicament and we have about 300 disposals we need to do for year end. We are stuck on version 2014. My question is in which version did the mass disposal option become available,? If it was prior…
  • Reducing the value of an asset

    Hello, An asset was added in 2018 for $248K. Due to a settlement in our favor, the asset value needs reduced to about $100K. I know I would just change the acquisition value of the asset for each of the books, but how would I handle depreciation? I…
  • How to Use Sage Fixed Assets for Group Depreciation

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    We currently have all of our computers, monitors, etc. listed as individual assets in Sage Fixed Assets. However, we would like to start using group depreciation instead by consolidating all our computer hardware into one asset. Each month we would add…
  • Reducing Value of Fully Depreciated Asset

    Trying to reduce the value of a fully depreciated asset. When the change is saved, I get the notice "critical depreciation change" page with 4 options: 1) placed in service date, 2) beginning date, 3) period close date {this is grayed out}, 4) current…
  • Using Sage Fixed Assets’ new features for Tax Compliance

    Conforming to section 163(j) rules for fixed asset depreciation A new feature, Bulk Edit , and two new depreciation methods, RH and RM , are available in Sage Fixed Assets-Depreciation 2019.1 and later to easily change the depreciation method and life…
  • IRS Finalizes Rental Real Estate QBI Safe Harbor Rules

    Finally, the IRS has introduced rules related to the Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction under IRC Section 199A for taxpayers with rental real estate. Section 199A was introduced as part of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017. Finalized…
  • Sage Fixed Assets: A Great 2019 with More Coming in 2020

    Every year the Sage Fixed Assets team strives to bring you features, enhancements, and updates in our products to improve your ability to bring value and efficiency to your organization. Partly driven by customer requests and partly by tax changes, 2019…