Derek J. Balling wrote: > And, worse still, some accounting departments might want to start > depreciating that new memory starting on the date it was purchased. > Which means in some theories you would need to know that Asset XXXXX > went into service on, say 1/1/2008, and is depreciating through > 1/1/2011. But the memory for that purchase went on a shelf to continue > its depreciation THERE on 7/1/2009, and 64GB of RAM started > depreciating, in the same chassis, on that date as well.... And heaven > help you if you retire the chassis on 1/1/2011 without accounting for > the memory inside that's from a different depreciation-date altogether....
Memory and disk is quite often a fairly small percentage of the overall system cost (although, with overall server prices coming down so much recently, that isn't always true any more) and most businesses treat memory and disk upgrades as an operating expense rather than a capital expense that needs to be depreciated. Trying to depreciate memory and disk, which may change multiple times over the life of a server is way too much of a headache for anyone to do, even with a big computer to do it for you. :-) -spp _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
