Purging asset books

Remove obsolete or unwanted asset book records for a book that is assigned to a company or a company group. You can remove all asset book records, asset transactions, asset book transactions, asset transaction summary, and asset transaction beginning balance records related to the books selected for purge or only historical asset book records.

Before you can purge all records from a book, you must change the book status to Inactive.

Select Utilities > Book Purge.
Specify this information:

Book

Select an inactive book from which the record is purged.

Company

Select a company or a company group. You cannot select both. If you select a company group, then the book you select must be used for all companies in the company group.

Company Group

Select a company or a company group. You cannot select both. If you select a company group, then the book you select must be used for all companies in the company group.

Asset

Optionally select the asset to purge.

Purge

You can select whether to purge all book records, all with transactions, or only historical records. If this field is blank, then all book records are purged. Historical records are collected only for books with the Depreciation History of Yes.

Action Option

Select whether to purge records or to run the report only. We recommend you run in Report only mode to verify what you are purging. You can also access the report when you select Purge Records.
Click OK.