Thanks for the additional information. Since the DIC is clean, there does not seem to be a problem in this respect, however, there is still not enough information to get a clear picture of what is going on here.

The main question is are these Assets fully depreciated as far as FA is concerned? i.e. does the accumulated depreciation figure equal the Depreciable value recorded in FA? If the answer is No, then the system will continue to calculate based on this information.

It seems that FA is still adjusting the figures to accomodate the changes you made on the exported file in Excel. FA will do this, as the critical information it bases it's calculations on has changed! It must make the necessary adjustments to provide an accurate reflection of the Asset(s) history.

You must make any changes necessary within the system provided by FA. In respect to this, there will be system calculated 'adjustments' recorded to reflect anything you do in FA, but depending on the choices you have made, this may only occur for the period in which you made the changes only - further Period Processing should not produce any more adjustments, but again, this depends totally on what exact changes were made to the Assets and if they are actually fully depreciated in the system or not.

Also, if you got a prompt in FA to 'Select method of adjustment - Prospective or Retroactive' after having imported the file from Excel, the choice you make here will dictate how long you will see adjustments being made by the system. It sounds like originally, a 'prospective' method was chosen, as after each month's processing these adjustment figures kept changing. They will keep calculating and changing until the original adjustment value is reached. Year End processing will not stop this - it just updates the figures to give accurate reflections for that Fiscal Year, then resets the YTD figures to be 0.00 again to start the new fiscal year.

All things considered, it seems that you do not have a program problem specifically, but an undesired result of changes made to your FA data that were not done as expected or required by FA.

If your Fiscal calendar year has changed and that is the reason behind you changing the Depreciation periods in Jan 2001 by exporting the assets and importing them into a new database, there is a procedure in FA that accomodates this specifically. In FA, you would likely want to process a 'Short year' to accomodate for the changes in your Fiscal year calendar. Instructions on how to proceed are in the manual, but this is done using the Year End Processing option. This would create adjustment calculations in FA based on the dates entered for the new fiscal year, but things should calculate and proceed as normal after the Year End for the short year had been completed.

If you are unsure about all this, perhaps you should contact your Dealer for further assistance. If you have a good backup made prior to you making the changes to the 'old' dataset, you can likely restore it and use it to complete the processing as required by FA so that you get the desired results for all your assets.

Hope this helps,

Regards
Softrak Support