Fixed Assets Management


Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains - Fixed Asset Management does the following:

Manages assets more effectively, saves time and money, puts your information to work, finds the information you need, makes depreciation easy, integrates powerfully!

Easy Asset Setup:  Create and manage an unlimited number of books of assets for each company, including corporate, federal tax, alternative minimum tax, and more. 

 Intuitive Interface:  Find asset information using an intuitive graphical user interface with one button access to maintenance, purchase, insurance, lease, book, or other critical information. 

Customized Setup:  Add up to 15 user-defined fields to track any industry-specific information that you need, set defaults and formats to meet business needs, and hide or display fields as needed.

 

Asset Tracking:  Track comprehensive information about assets using standard or user-defined fields, in multiple quantities or by an asset component like master ID number or asset suffix.

 

Asset Classes:    Define asset classes to set defaults for a group of assets, as well as set characteristics such as depreciation or asset retirement for multiple assets at

one time.

 

Averaging Conventions:  Utilize a variety of averaging conventions for managing assets including averaging by half year, mid quarter, full month, full period, full year,

and others.

Depreciation Management:  Use any of 16 depreciation methods such as straight line, remaining life, and amortization, and forecast your depreciation expenses for budgetary work.

 

Asset Review:   View and analyze in-depth information about assets on-screen including asset account, lease, insurance, or user data, or drill down to the originating

transaction to look at greater detail.

 
Asset Manipulation:
  Manage assets with powerful tools for adding or changing assets such as retirement, transferrals, and making mass changes to multiple assets.

 

Reporting Management:  Share information with a wide variety of standard reports such as depreciation ledgers, property transfer, inventory list, and asset retirements. Create custom reports using SmartList, Report Writer, and Crystal Reports.

 
Property Management:
  Manage physical inventory and asset movement with location IDs providing reconciliation of an asset’s actual physical location to the recorded

physical location.

 
Integration:
  Update the General Ledger automatically with Fixed Asset Management information and integrate with asset information from GP Purchase Order and Payables modules.