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Multiview Fixed Assets

Fulfilling an organization's complex requirements for fixed assets, while simultaneously complying with constantly changing tax laws, presents real challenges for any business. Multiview's Fixed Asset module helps organizations achieve comprehensive financial, tax and risk management, keep an accurate asset inventory and effectively manage corporate property with ease.
  • Meet the needs of your organization's financial and tax professionals as well as property managers now and in the future
  • Gain control of property by monitoring assets from acquisition to retirement
  • Streamline asset management and reduce data entry
  • Project depreciation for more accurate forecasting of your organization's tax liability
  • Comply with federal regulations and rulings
  • Set special depreciation procedures that automatically switch to the optimum method at the appropriate time

Multiview Fixed Assets helps you accomplish all these goals easily. In addition, Multiview Fixed Assets works in conjunction with Multiview General Ledger and Accounts Payable so that all the transactions needed for financial statements are available to you when you need them.


Multiple Books Simplify Fixed-Asset Management

Multiview recognizes that the needs of the tax department may not always be in sync with accounting and financial requirements. The ability to keep multiple sets of fixed assets books enables you to fulfill corporate, tax, and financial requirements without jeopardizing one goal to meet another. The system allows you to:

  • Make use of unlimited depreciation schedules for corporate, tax, and other purposes
  • Define optional books to handle special planning and accounting needs


Meeting All Your Tax, Financial & Property Needs

Multiview Fixed Assets meets all your organization's fixed-asset needs, while eliminating time-consuming tasks such as manually tracking physical location and calculating depreciation. Use the system to:

  • Handle computations and reporting for both tax and property accountants
  • Choose the most advantageous depreciation method, including ACRS, MACRS, DB, SL, and SYD with automatic switchovers as applicable
  • Select from a variety of first-year conventions including Full Year, Half Year, Modified Half Year, Next Half Year, Mid-Quarter, Mid-Month, and Prorated
  • Report on any asset by company, category, division, plant, account, group, unit, department, class, type, project, building, or floor
  • Predict trends in replacement costs and insurance valuation
  • Track asset activity from acquisition through retirement
  • Accurately track sales, scraps, separations and transfers
  • Project depreciation for up to fifty years


Information at Your Fingertips

Multiview Fixed Assets makes it easy to quickly and easily locate required information. Interactive look-up lets you query master files without exiting the screen in use. The system comes equipped with a variety of powerful reports, including:

  • Acquisitions, dispositions, separations, and transfers
  • Summary, cost summary, gain/loss, and adjustments
  • Tax reports, depreciation, and depreciation projections
  • Current cost and constant dollar
  • ITC and recapture
  • Insurance valuation


Comprehensive Asset Management

Multiview Fixed Assets is a comprehensive system for asset management. System features include:

  • Unlimited depreciation schedules for any given asset
  • Flexible accounting periods (12, 13, 4-4-5 quarter, or any other variation)
  • Compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for projecting depreciation
  • User-defined codes and defaults to reduce data-entry time
  • Smooth transfer of depreciation, acquisition and disposition journal entries to Multiview General Ledger