Asset & Equipment Planning

Model capital purchases with depreciation, lifecycle, and the impact on your balance sheet and cash flow.

1 min readUpdated June 4, 2026

Asset components let you model capital expenditure and the resulting depreciation charge on your P&L and net book value on your Balance Sheet.

Adding an Asset component

Click '+ Add Component' → select Asset. Name it descriptively (e.g. 'MacBooks — batch 1', 'Office Fit-Out', 'Patent').

Asset settings

Enter: Purchase amount, Purchase date, Useful life (in months or years), Residual value (amount remaining at end of useful life — leave at 0 for full write-down), and Depreciation method.

Depreciation methods

Straight-line: same charge every month (most common). Reducing balance: higher charge in early periods, decreasing over time. Enter the annual reducing-balance rate %.

What feeds where

Purchase: a cash outflow in the Cash Flow statement (Investing Activities) on the purchase date. Depreciation: monthly charge on the P&L under the Depreciation line. Net Book Value (NBV): on the Balance Sheet under Fixed Assets each month.

Multiple assets

Add a separate Asset component for each significant capital purchase, or group similar small items (e.g. 'IT Equipment 2024'). ForezynPlan aggregates depreciation across all Asset components.

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