# Assets spread across branches, depreciation on your policy

> Track fixed assets, scheduled depreciation and maintenance — flowing into your financial reports instead of a side spreadsheet.

- **URL:** https://www.snad.io/global/en/asset-management
- **Part of:** Snad — every app runs on the same database and is included in every plan (https://www.snad.io/global/en/pricing)

## From registering an asset to disposal — a full cycle connected to accounting

- A record per asset: purchase date, cost, location, custodian, condition
- Assets spread across multiple branches and locations with a consolidated report
- A depreciation policy per asset class: useful life, method and residual value
- A monthly depreciation entry created automatically and posted to the statements
- Net book value visible at any moment, per asset and for the group
- Moving an asset between locations and changing custody, with a record that keeps the history
- Disposal and sale with the gain or loss computed and posted
- What is bought as a fixed asset enters the register straight from receipt

## When does an asset register become necessary?

Five signs the file no longer represents what you actually own

- **The asset sits in one country and the ledger in another currency:** When an asset is bought in one currency and posted in another, its value is fixed at the acquisition-day rate rather than today's. Keeping the historical rate leaves the carrying value auditable.
- **Depreciation policy differs by entity:** Useful life and depreciation method are decisions belonging to each entity and its accountant. Software that forces one schedule across the group leaves the figure in one entity's statements indefensible.
- **Depreciation is worked out in a spreadsheet outside the books:** A file opened at every month-end from which a single entry is copied. Every manual copy is a place for an error, and every month the file is forgotten is a hole in the statements discovered after the close.
- **You cannot see net book value without calculating it:** What you own after depreciation is the number that feeds decisions about selling, replacing and insuring. When it only appears by adding up columns, those decisions get made on purchase cost — a number that is already out of date.
- **Purchases never reach the asset register:** A machine bought and posted as an expense is neither in the register nor depreciating. An asset that does not enter the record at the moment it is received usually never enters it at all.

## An asset spreadsheet or a register connected to the books?

The difference shows at the first review, not in the first month

| Aspect | A spreadsheet | The asset register in Snad |
| --- | --- | --- |
| How the asset enters | Typed in by hand — and often forgotten | Enters from the purchase order at the moment of receipt |
| Depreciation policy | A formula reviewed at every change | Configured once per asset class |
| The monthly entry | Copied into the books by hand | Created on schedule and posted to the statements |
| Location and custody | Outside the file | In the record, with the date of every move |
| Net book value | Calculated on request | Visible per asset and for the group |
| Disposal | A manual entry with a manually computed gain or loss | Computed and posted as the asset leaves |

Depreciation is posted to your statements whether or not you keep an asset register. The register adds no new number — it decides who calculates it and when, which is the difference between an audited figure and an estimated one.

## Frequently asked questions about fixed-asset management

### Can I configure the depreciation method myself?

Yes. Useful life, method and residual value are configured per asset class. The software applies what you configure; choosing the right policy stays with your accountant.

### Does Snad support assets in more than one branch or country?

Yes. Every asset carries its location, and moves between locations are recorded with their dates — with the group readable in a single report however many locations it spans.

### Does the depreciation entry reach the books automatically?

Yes. The monthly entry is created on schedule and posted to the statements with no copying from an outside spreadsheet — which is exactly where depreciation errors usually hide.

### How does what I buy get into the asset register?

Straight from purchasing: what is bought as a fixed asset enters the register the moment it is received and starts depreciating from there, instead of being posted as an expense and never returning.

### Can I see net book value without calculating it by hand?

Yes, and it is visible per asset and for the group at any moment — the number that decisions about selling, replacing and insuring are built on.

## What Snad does for a business outside Saudi Arabia

- **Tax rate:** configurable. You set the rate that applies to your invoices; it then applies to subsequent invoices and is shown separately from net sales in reports. Snad applies the configured rate and does not determine which rate is correct for a given business.
- **Invoicing currency:** you choose the currency your customers are invoiced in. It is independent of the currency you are billed in for the subscription (USD outside Saudi Arabia).
- **Government e-invoicing portals:** direct integration is available inside Saudi Arabia only. Elsewhere Snad issues invoices with sequential numbering and a QR code, keeps the archive and exports in standard formats, with no direct link to a national portal.
- **Interface:** Arabic and English, per user, in the same account.

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