Stackroom
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Compliance & audit

What Is a Fixed Asset Register? Required Fields, Format and Examples

What a fixed asset register is, what US GAAP, IFRS and FRS 102 expect of it, where the capitalisation threshold sits, how book and tax registers differ, and how to reconcile it to the general ledger.

Updated 5 Oct 2026 13 min
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Cost & lifecycle

How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Schedule for Equipment

How to decide what needs scheduled servicing, take statutory intervals from OSHA and HSE rules, set the rest on evidence, and avoid the schedule everyone ignores.

Updated 5 Oct 2026 8 min
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Cost & lifecycle

Straight-Line vs Declining Balance (WDV) Depreciation for Equipment

Straight-line and declining balance — also called reducing balance or written-down value — compared for equipment: what each does to book value, worked examples, and how US and UK tax rules differ.

Updated 5 Oct 2026 10 min
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Cost & lifecycle

AMC vs CMC vs Warranty: Which Equipment Cover You Actually Have

Three kinds of cover, routinely confused, with materially different consequences when something breaks. What each includes, how they overlap, and what to record.

Updated 5 Oct 2026 6 min
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Buying guides

Asset Management for Small Businesses: A Practical Setup Guide

You don't need a system designed for a 5,000-asset estate. A setup that takes an afternoon, the US and UK tax rules that affect what you record, and what to skip until you need it.

Updated 5 Oct 2026 8 min
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By industry

Managing IT Equipment for Remote and Hybrid Teams

When a courier delivers the laptop, the handover moment vanishes — and with it the moment somebody accepts responsibility. Here's what replaces it.

16 Sept 2026 3 min
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By industry

IT Equipment Management for Growing Teams: A Practical Guide

Doubling headcount breaks whatever you were doing before. Here's what to put in place at fifty people so you're not reconstructing it at two hundred.

16 Sept 2026 4 min
Colleagues collaborating over a laptop
Compliance & audit

How to Write an Asset Management Policy (With Structure and Examples)

What an asset management policy should cover, how long it should be, and the clauses that make the difference between a document people follow and one they file.

16 Sept 2026 5 min
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Compliance & audit

Asset Audit Requirements: What Auditors Actually Ask For

Not a list of what you believe you own. A verified count, on a date, by a named person, with discrepancies attached — and why that is a different artefact from a register.

16 Sept 2026 5 min