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<Session ID="/baanerp/tf/fam/tffam1205m000" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Asset Depreciation (tffam1205m000)</Title>
   </Header>
   <HelpTopic>
      <AimSection>
         <List>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#Depreciation_tf" role="glossary">depreciation</Link>
            </ListItem>
         </List>
      </AimSection>
      <GeneralSection>
         <Paragraph>Use this session to indicate basic <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000129" role="glossary">depreciation</Link> data for assets. Depreciation is a way of allocating the
		  cost of an asset over its useful life for tax and record-keeping purposes. Over
		  time, the value of an asset decreases. You depreciate assets to record this
		  loss of value on a periodic basis.</Paragraph>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>LN calculates the depreciation amount as follows:</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>Depreciation amount = Transaction costs / Asset life.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>If the costs in relation to the asset life are so low that
			 after rounding off the amount according to the currency definition the
			 depreciation amount approaches zero, the depreciation does not end. Depreciaton
			 transactions with zero amounts are created and the asset net book value is not
			 decreased.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
         <Paragraph>LN calculates depreciation separately for each of the asset's related books. You
		  can depreciate an asset in all of its books at once, or you can depreciate the
		  asset in one or more of its related books. LN uses a frequency to
		  determine whether an asset is eligible for depreciation and how often
		  depreciation must be calculated. LN also uses a depreciation method assigned to each book to
		  determine how depreciation must be calculated. If any of the selected assets
		  contain a life in units in any of the assets' books, you must run <Link href="/baanerp/tf/fam/tffam1145s000" role="session">Record Asset Units Used (tffam1145s000)</Link> prior to depreciation.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>An asset can depreciate in a book only until its remaining
		  cost is equal to its <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000168" role="glossary">salvage value</Link> or until its remaining life is equal to zero. Assets with a
		  negative cost accumulate negative depreciation and cannot depreciate past zero.
		  When an asset reaches these limits, the asset and its related books stop
		  depreciating.</Paragraph>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>Assets whose the Depreciate Below Salvage check box is
			 selected in their related books can depreciate below their salvage value until
			 their cost equals zero.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
      </GeneralSection>
      <RelatedTopics>
         <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000521" role="manual">Depreciation by location</Link>
         </RelTopic>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000522" role="manual">Reverse depreciation</Link>
         </RelTopic>
      </RelatedTopics>
   </HelpTopic>
   <Fields>
      <FieldHelp ID="form.prod">
         <Header>
            <Title>Period</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>Periods divide a year into regular intervals, such as weeks,
		months, or quarters, that can be used for statistical, hours accounting,
		planning, and cost controlling purposes.</FuncDesc>
         <AllowedValues>
            <SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>Integers between 1 and n, where n is the number of periods
			 in the calendar.</Paragraph>
         </AllowedValues>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>The period through which <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000129" role="glossary">depreciation</Link> of an asset on
			 its <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000114" role="glossary">asset books</Link> will be calculated.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="form.year">
         <Header>
            <Title>Year</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>Year through which <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000129" role="glossary">depreciation</Link> will be
		  calculated.</FuncDesc>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="form.suppress">
         <Header>
            <Title>Suppress Journal Entries</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000160" role="glossary">journal entries</Link> are not
		  created in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld" role="module">General Ledger</GUIRef> module for this transaction.</FuncDesc>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="print.report">
         <Header>
            <Title>Print Error Report</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, an error report is
		  printed.</FuncDesc>
         <RelatedTopics>
            <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000522" role="manual">Reverse depreciation</Link>
            </RelTopic>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000521" role="manual">Depreciation by location</Link>
            </RelTopic>
         </RelatedTopics>
      </FieldHelp>
   </Fields>
</Session>