Add to cost of an existing capitalized asset (upgradation of asset)
How to cater scenario where an existing asset with accumulated depreciation is upgraded?
Example:
Asset cost = 100,000
DPIS: 1 Jan 2014
Accumulated Depreciation at 31 Dec 2014 = 10,000
NBV = 90,000
Upgrade cost = 100,000
Upgrade Date = 1 Jan-2015
The suggested method is to simply adjust the current cost (circled above) to 200,000 to reflect the upgrade.
But this will cause system to automatically calculate catch up depreciation for 1Jan14 to 31Dec14.
We dont want this as the upgrade is done on 1 Jan 2015 and the depreciation of upgrade component of asset should begin from 1 Jan 2015.
The other suggested solution is to create a new asset for the upgrade component.