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Adjust Fixed Asset Origination Cost

  • April 4, 2025
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Hello -

Has anyone had experience changing an origination value for a Fixed Asset after it has been in service for months? We have an asset that was entered with the wrong origination value and need to be changed, but has also already been depreciating. What would be the best way to go about changing this? Thanks

Best answer by mhlocklear

I have a parent fixed asset with an origination and acquisition cost.  Basically, overstating my assets (which I fixed with a journal entry).  I would like to stop the depreciation of the parent as the subcomponents are depreciating.

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  • August 29, 2025

I have a parent fixed asset with an origination and acquisition cost.  Basically, overstating my assets (which I fixed with a journal entry).  I would like to stop the depreciation of the parent as the subcomponents are depreciating.


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  • Jr Varsity III
  • November 5, 2025

Hello -

Has anyone had experience changing an origination value for a Fixed Asset after it has been in service for months? We have an asset that was entered with the wrong origination value and need to be changed, but has also already been depreciating. What would be the best way to go about changing this? Thanks

Did you find a solution for this?


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  • Varsity I
  • November 6, 2025

@tonym68  The best solution I found was to reverse the asset, then recreate it as a new FA ID with the correct amount. I would recommend pulling balance sheets and income statements to compare against on the reversal / addition. You would need to reopen the old periods that deprecation posted, as those would all be reversed, then on creation of new asset, it will post accordingly to those months from start of asset addition. I did all mine in a test environment first then recreated it in production once I confirmed the postings were as needed. 


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  • Jr Varsity III
  • November 7, 2025

@JReppard, thanks for the update. That’s what I figured, and it makes the most sense.