Approaches to modeling assets

There are two approaches to modeling fixed assets, which are as follows:

• The detailed approach
• The simple approach

The detailed approach

The detailed approach is preferred and is a more precise method that looks at the components of fixed assets—the costs of the assets, additions, disposals, depreciation, and accumulated depreciation. Your discussions with management will give you an idea of their CapEx plans over the next five years. Where there is a disposal or sale, a fixed asset has to be removed from the books. The net book value (accumulated depreciation) of that asset will be transferred to a disposal account as a debit and the proceeds of the sale will be transferred to the same...