Fixed Asset User Guide Oracle
Fixed Asset User Guide Oracle
(Fixed Assets)
Basic Setups and Basic User Interface
1. Key Flexfeild
2. Calendar
(A) Fiscal Year.
(B) Asset Calendar
(C) Prorate Calendar
3. Depriciation
4. Quick Code
5. Asset Book
6. Asset Category
7. Asset Addition
(A) Detailed Addition
(B) Quick Addition
(C) Mass Addition.
(i) Create
(ii) Prepare
(iii) Post
8. Asset Inquiry
9. Asset Retirment.
10.Navigation
1. Key FlexFeild
Category Flexfield:
Define the Asset Category key flexfield so that you can create categories and group assets by
financial information in relevant categories. Define your Asset Category flexfield segments to fit the
specific needs of your organization. You must define at least one subcategory segment to allow for
distinctions within a major category.
Location Flexfeild:
Oracle Assets uses the location flexfield to group your assets by physical location. You design your
location flexfield to record the information you want. Then you can report on your assets by
location. You can also transfer assets that share location information as a group, such as when you
move an office to a new location.
Specify the start and end dates of each fiscal year for a fiscal year name. Create fiscal years from
the oldest date placed in service through at least one fiscal year beyond the current fiscal year.
Depreciation will fail if the current fiscal year is the last fiscal year. You can set up multiple fiscal
years in this window. You can assign different fiscal years to your different corporate books. The
calendar for a tax book must use the same fiscal year name as the calendar for the associated tax
book.
You can set up as many calendars as you need. Each book you set up requires a depreciation
calendar and a prorate calendar. The depreciation calendar determines the number of accounting
periods in a fiscal year, and the prorate calendar determines the number of prorate periods in your
fiscal year. You can use one calendar for multiple depreciation books, and as both the depreciation
and prorate calendar for a book.The types of Calendar are:-
Depriciating Calendar:
Determines, with the divide depreciation flag, what fraction of the annual depreciation amount to
take each period.
Prorate Calendar:
Determines, with the date placed in service, which depreciation rate to select from the rate table .
You can set up or review prorate and retirement conventions in the Prorate Conventions window.
You must initially set up all your prorate conventions from the convention period corresponding to
the oldest date placed in service through the end of the current fiscal year. At the end of each fiscal
year, Oracle Assets automatically sets up your prorate conventions for the next fiscal year.
Types Of Conventions:
Month-to-Month:
Month-to-month is the most common prorate convention and calendar setup. In this scenario The
depreciation calendar and the prorate calendar are identical: a standard 12-month calendar with each
period corresponding to a different month. An asset with a date placed in service any time in a given
month will have a full month of depreciation taken for that period.
Mid-Month:
When you use a mid-month prorate convention, half a month of depreciation is taken in the first and
last periods of an asset's life. For a mid-month prorate convention, you need to set up a prorate
calendar with semi-monthly periods.
Daily:
If you need to depreciate on a daily basis, you need to set up daily depreciation and prorate
calendars (365 periods).
Oracle Assets calculates depreciation using either the recoverable cost or the recoverable net book
value as a basis. If the depreciation method uses the asset cost, Oracle Assets calculates the fiscal
year depreciation by multiplying the recoverable cost by the rate. If the depreciation method uses
the asset net book value, Oracle Assets calculates the fiscal year depreciation by multiplying the
recoverable net book value as of the beginning of the fiscal year, or after the latest amortized
adjustment or revaluation, by the rate.
Method Type:
Choose From the Diffrent Method Types Form the Drop Down Menu i.e.
Flat Rate: Use a flat-rate method to depreciate the asset over time using a fixed rate. Oracle
Assets uses a flat-rate and either the recoverable cost or the recoverable net book
value as of the beginning of the fiscal year to calculate depreciation using a flat-rate
depreciation method. The asset continues to depreciate until its recoverable cost and
accumulated depreciation are the same.
Life-based method: Oracle Assets includes standard life-based depreciation methods and rates.
However, you can define additional life-based methods.There are two types of life-based methods:
Calculated : For straight-line depreciation, the depreciation program calculates the annual
depreciation rate by dividing the life (in years) into one. Calculated methods
spread the asset value evenly over the life.
Table : Oracle Assets gets the annual depreciation rate from a rate table.
Production: Under the units-of-production method, useful life of the asset is expressed in terms of
the total number of units expected to be produced: Suppose, an asset has original cost
$70,000, salvage value $10,000, and is expected to produce 6,000 units. Depreciation
per unit = ($70,000−10,000) / 6,000 = $10 , 10 × actual production will give the
depreciation cost of the current year.
Formula : Oracle Assets allows you to define depreciation formulas to calculate annual
depreciation rates.You use the Depreciation Formula window to define depreciation
formulas. When you are finished defining your formula, we recommend you test
your formula using the Test Formula tabbed region.
Calculation Basis:
Choose Form the Options Cost or NBV (NBV= Current Cost-Accumulated Depreciation)
(NBV is not valid for calculated & units of production methods).
Life Years:
Enter the number of Years and Months of asset life.(Not Applicable for Units Of Production and
Flat Rate)
Formula:
Click to Insert Formula For calculating Depreciation. Applicable When Method Type Is Formula.
Rates:
Click on Rate to Define Rates. Applicable for Table and Flat-Rate Method only.
Table-based Rate: It uses Prorate Periods Distribution method and the Total of all prorate
Period comes to 1(one)
Flat Rate: It Uses Basic Rate and Adjusted Rate to Calculate the Rate of
Depriciation Applicable.
E.G. Of Depriciation Methods:
Flat Rate Method
Table-Based
Use the Book Controls window to set up your depreciation books. You can set up an unlimited
number of independent depreciation books. Each book has its own set of accounting rules and
accounts so you can organize and implement your fixed assets accounting policies.
You can define corporate, tax, and budget depreciation books. You must set up your
depreciation books before you can add assets to them. You can set up multiple corporate books that
create journal entries for different ledger, or to the same ledger. In either case, you must both run
depreciation and create journal entries for each depreciation book. For each corporate book, you can
set up multiple tax and budget books that are associated with it.
Category:
Enter a Category name and Description to identify the asset category you want to set up.
Enabled:
Check Enabled if you want to use this category.
Capitalized:
Check Capitalize if you want to charge items in this category to an asset account when you pay for
them and if you want to depreciate items in this category.
In Physical Inventry:
Check In Physical Inventory if you want assets in this category to be included in physical inventory
comparisons.
Category Type:
Choose Lease, Leasehold Improvement, or Non-Lease from the poplist. You can only enter lease
information in the Asset Details window if you assign the asset to a Lease category type.
Owernership:
Choose Owned or Leased from the Ownership poplist.
Property Type:
Enter the Property Type and Class to which the assets in this category usually belong. You set up
your QuickCode values for Property Type in the QuickCodes window.
General Ledger Accounts:
Enter general ledger accounts for the category, Enter general ledger accounts.
Default Depreciation Rules: Click on Defalt Rules
Placed IN Service:
In the Default Depreciation Rules window, enter the date Placed in Service range for which
these category defaults are effective. When you add an asset, the depreciation rules default
according to the date placed in service of the asset, the category, and the book.
Check Depreciate:
If you normally depreciate assets in this book and category.
Depriciation Method:
Enter the depreciation Method that you normally use for assets in this book and category:
Bonus Rule: (Optional)
Enter the bonus rule that you normally use for assets in this book and category. You can use bonus
rules for corporate books and tax books, using all depreciation methods except UOM.
Prorate / Retierment Convention:
Enter the Prorate Convention and Retirement Convention that you normally assign to assets.
Salvage Value: (Optional)
If you chose Use Default Percent from the Salvage Value poplist in the Book Controls window for
this book, you can enter a Default Salvage Value percentage for this category, book, and range of
dates placed in service. For example, if you want the salvage value to default to 10% of the cost,
enter 10 in this field. When you perform transactions affecting asset cost, Oracle Assets uses this
default percentage to calculate the salvage value.
Cost ceiling: (Optional)
If you are defining this category for a tax book, enter either a depreciation expense or cost ceiling.
Price Index:
Enter if you want to run reports that use the revalued asset cost to calculate gains and losses.
Sub-Component Life:
Enter a default subcomponent life Rule you want to use to determine the default lifeof the sub-
component asset based on the life of the parent asset. Choose one of the following rules:
None: (Leave field blank): There is no connection between the life of the subcomponent asset and
the parent asset life. Oracle Assets defaults the subcomponent asset life from the asset category.
Same End Date: (Without specifying a minimum life): The subcomponent asset becomes fully
depreciated on the same day as the parent asset or at the end of the category default life, whichever
is sooner. The default subcomponent asset life is based on the end of the parent asset life and the
category default life. If the parent asset is fully reserved, Oracle Assets gives the subcomponent
asset a default life of one month.
Same End Date :(Specifying a minimum life): The subcomponent asset becomes depreciated on
the same day as the parent asset, unless the parent asset life is shorter than the minimum life
Same Life: The subcomponent asset uses the same life as the parent asset. It depreciates for the
same total number of periods. If the subcomponent asset is acquired after the parent asset, it
depreciates beyond the end date of the parent asset life.
• Quick Additions
• Detail Addition
• Mass Addition
Forms OF Assets:
Capitalized:
Assets included on the company balance sheet. Capitalized assets usually depreciate. Charged to an
asset cost clearing account.
CIP (Construction-In-Process):
Unfinished assets being built, not yet in use and not yet depreciating. Once you capitalize a CIP
asset, Oracle Assets begins depreciating it. Charged to a construction-in-process clearing account.
A construction-in-process (CIP) asset is an asset you construct over a period of time. You create and
maintain your CIP assets as you spend money for raw materials and labor to construct them. Since a
CIP asset is not yet in use, it does not depreciate. When you finish building the CIP asset, you can
place it in service and begin depreciating it. You can track CIP assets in Oracle Assets, or you can
track detailed information about your CIP assets in Oracle Projects. If you use Oracle Projects to
track CIP assets, you do not need to track them in Oracle Assets.
Expensed:
Items that do NOT depreciate; the entire cost is charged in a single period to an expense account.
Oracle Assets tracks expensed items, but does not create journal entries for them. Oracle Assets
does not depreciate expensed assets, even if the Depreciate check box in the Books and Mass
Additions Prepare windows is checked for that asset.
Group:
A group asset is a collection of member assets. You can add member assets to a group asset, transfer
assets out, or between groups assets. Group asset cost is the sum of all the associated member assets
costs. A group may contain many individual assets that were placed into service in different years,
but share one depreciation account maintained for the group. Group asset depreciation, known as
group depreciation, is computed and stored at the group level.
(A) Quick Additions:
Use the QuickAdditions process to quickly enter ordinary assets when you must enter them
manually. You can enter minimal information in the QuickAdditions window, and the remaining
asset information defaults from the asset category, book, and the date placed in service.
• Optionally enter the Employee Name or Number of the person responsible for the asset.
• Enter the default Expense Account to which you want to charge depreciation.
• Enter the physical Location of the asset.
• Choose Done to save your work.
(C) Mass Additions
The mass additions process lets you add new assets or cost adjustments from other systems to your
system automatically without reentering the data. For example, you can add new assets from
invoice lines brought over to Oracle Assets from Oracle Payables, or from CIP asset lines sent from
Oracle Projects. The steps in the mass additions process are described below:
Create : Enter invoices in Oracle Payables, Run Create Mass Additions
Review : Review mass additions to become assets. Add mass addition lines to existing assets.
Post : Post your mass additions to Oracle Assets.
• Swich Responsibility to Oracle Paybles Vision Operations
Invoices > Entry > Invoices
• Click on Distribution
• Enter Amount and Account
• Click on Folder, then Click on Show Feilds
• Select "Track As Asset"
• Tick Mark In the Column
• Save and Close
• Click on Actions, then Validate and Create Accounting
• Submit Request of Mass additions
• Enter Details as shown in Below Image.
• Click on Parameters
• Choose Book
• Click on Submit, Posting Has Been Done
Entering & Capatalizing CIP Assets
Capitalize finished assets that are ready to be placed in service. You can capitalize a single asset or a
group of assets in a transaction. If you erroneously capitalize a CIP asset, you can reverse the
capitalization.