Add the ability to establish asset useful life in months rather than in years in Fixed Assets

Because we have a long-term land lease for our facility, we do not want to depreciate any leasehold improvements beyond the practical end of the lease.  As we were recently establishing a useful life for a new building, we wanted to depreciate the building over the exact number of months remaining in the long-term lease, but had to choose the closest year instead.  The change in depreciation was small, but it would make more sense to have an asset depreciable life that exactly matches up with the remaining property lease as currently negotiated.

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  • Nov 16 2016
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    • Jennifer Hrebik commented
      11 Mar 18:08

      Yes! I maintain an Excel schedule for the audit and I have several assets being depreciated at different rates than the schedule because I have to round to the nearest year. We need to be more exact for partial years.

    • Suzanne McKenna commented
      May 03, 2024 19:46

      Agreed. We struggled with this while implementing new lease standards.


    • Guest commented
      May 03, 2024 19:41

      Great idea!