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Notice that the required fields are: Warehouse, Entity, Item, Quantity, UOM, Amount, and (if applicable to the item) Batch or Characteristic.

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The "Fixed Asset Entry (create)" form. The Main tab

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Use the Warehouse field to specify where the item to items (that will be used as a fixed asset is ) are located.

In the Entity field, select an entity of your company for which this document is being prepared. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on: Administration > Settings> General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents; for this, refer to Personal Settings. If you have not selected your default entity, the entity, which was defined first, will be used as the system default value.

Use the Responsible field to specify the employee who is responsible for this fixed asset.

The Comment text box can be used to specify any additional information about this transaction.

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In this section of the form , you can provide general information about the item to be accepted for accounting as a fixed asset.

In the Item field, you can select then inventory item that will become a single or multiple fixed assets.

In the Characteristics field, specify the item characteristic if applicable.

In the Batch field, specify the batch of the item if applicable.

In the Quantity field, enter the quantity of the item to be accepted as fixed assets.

Use the Amount field to specify the initial cost of the specified quantity of the item in the accounting currency. Notice that if the item was purchased by using a foreign currency, conversion to the accounting currency is performed automatically using the actual exchange rates of both currencies with respect to the national currency.
You can enter the amount manually or you can click the Fill in ( Image Removed ) button to the right of the field to populate the field with the estimated weighted average cost of the specified quantity of the item from the item's availability data.

If you click the GL Accounts link, you can view the default accounts assigned to the asset and if needed replace them.

Transaction Remarks text box can be used to provide any information for a printed version of this document.

The document totals and other Information

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  • New (document was created, but not recorded to the database)
  • Not Posted (document was recorded, but not posted)
  • Posted (document was posted)
  • Marked for Deletion (document was marked to be deleted)

The Initial Total Cost (total) field is populated with the cost of the fixed assets (listed on the Fixed Assets tab) in the accounting currency.

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For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.

Use the Settings button to invoke the Document Settings dialog box if you need to move the Warehouse or Cell fields from the document header (the Main tab) as columns to the table on the Inventory tab or back.

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The Document Settings dialog box

Once you are done with the option selections, click OK to save the settings and close the dialog box or Cancel to close the dialog box without any changes to the settings.