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How to Calculate Asset Depreciation

Learn to track asset depreciation to better manage cost of maintenance for your company.

Updated over 3 months ago

Available On: Business Plus


Depreciation πŸ’° is the process of spreading out the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life, ensuring accurate accounting and financial management.


How to Enter your Asset Information

You can add this information when creating a new asset or editing an existing one! Make sure to enter the following information (these fields are needed to calculate depreciation):

  1. Purchase Date: The Date you acquired or purchased this Asset

  2. Purchase Price: How much you spent on this Asset

  3. Residual Price: The remaining value of when the Asset is fully depreciated

  4. Useful Life: Your estimated lifespan for this asset

TIP: You can also add this information when importing your assets (Columns K, M, O & P).


How to View your Asset Depreciation

  1. Click on the Desired Asset to open the Overview page

  2. On the right-hand side, under Depreciation, you can view:

    1. Depreciation rate

    2. End of Useful life

    3. Current value of the asset

  3. Click on View Timeline to see a better breakdown of the depreciation rate!

πŸ’‘For more detailed view of your Depreciation check out UpKeep Analytics

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