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title: "Manage fixed asset depreciation"
description: "By depreciating an asset, you can spread the cost of the asset over its entire useful service life."
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  en: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/index.md
lastmod: 2026-02-19
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# Manage fixed asset depreciation

Last modified February 19, 2026

> By depreciating an asset, you can spread the cost of the asset over its entire useful service life.


By depreciating an asset, you can spread the cost of the asset over its entire useful service
life.
The service life is the period over which the asset is used, until it is no longer usable.


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## In this section


- [About depreciation of fixed assets](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/about-depreciation-of-fixed-assets/index.md): Depreciation is used to spread the cost of an asset over its entire useful service life or the period over which the asset is used, until it is no longer…

- [About depreciation configuration](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/about-depreciation-configuration/index.md): You have to select an appropriate depreciation method and select certain depreciation settings for each fixed asset you add to the system.

- [About depreciation methods](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/about-depreciation-methods/index.md): A depreciation method defines how the cost of a tangible asset is allocated over its expected useful life. In Visma Net, you can use multiple depreciation…

- [About averaging conventions](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/about-averaging-conventions/index.md): Averaging conventions determine how fixed assets must be depreciated for the financial period within which they are acquired or disposed of.

- [Calculate depreciation](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/calculate-depreciation/index.md): Note If no value is specified in the To period field, the Calculate only option is selected by default, and you cannot edit the Action field.

- [Depreciate an asset](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/depreciate-an-asset/index.md): To depreciate one asset or multiple assets, you use the Calculate depreciation (FA502000) window.

- [About depreciation suspension](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/about-depreciation-suspension/index.md): Sometimes it is necessary to stop or suspend calculating depreciation of a fixed asset for some number of financial periods.

- [Suspend asset depreciation](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/suspend-asset-depreciation/index.md): You can suspend the depreciation of an active asset by using the Fixed assets (FA303000) window.

- [Configure table methods of class type](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/configure-table-methods-of-class-type/index.md): To add a new depreciation table method, first you use the Depreciation table methods (FA202600) window to add a method of the class type that will be used to…

- [Configure table methods with annual depreciation](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/configure-table-methods-with-annual-depreciation/index.md): To add a new depreciation table method with annual depreciation, you use the Depreciation table methods (FA202600) window to add a method of the both type that…

- [Configure table methods of asset type](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/configure-table-methods-of-asset-type/index.md): After you configured a table method of class type, as described in Configure table methods of class type, you use the Depreciation table methods (FA202600)…

- [Configure formula-based depreciation methods](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/fixed-assets/manage-fixed-asset-depreciation/configure-formula-based-depreciation-methods/index.md): In the Depreciation methods (FA202500) window, you can configure a formula-based depreciation method by using any of the available depreciation calculation…