Reports

The reports turn the records you have been keeping into something you can act on. They read the same data you see on each asset, subscription, person and location, and arrange it so you can answer a question about the whole organization at once.

Open the main menu with the AssetCenter logo, or with Ctrl / Command + K, and expand Reports. There are six, which the menu separates with dividing lines into three groups.

Costs and value:

• Depreciation — current-year depreciation and book value for every asset you paid for, by straight-line, declining balance, sum-of-years' digits or MACRS.
• Recurring Subscription Cost — what your subscriptions cost and what they have cost so far.

Age and activity:

• End Of Life Assets — how old your assets are and when they reach end of life.
• Events — every event logged on your assets, people and locations, with a tab for each.

Maps:

• Asset Location Map — your locations plotted on a map, with the number of assets at each.
• Assignment History Map — one asset followed through time, with the events recorded at each place it has been.

A seventh, GPS Tracking, appears with the maps when GPS tracking has been enabled for your organization.

What the reports have in common#

Filtering. Most reports have a Filters button that opens a panel of the filters that make sense for that report. Filters you have applied appear as badges above the table, and a Clear button removes them all at once. The filters you choose are kept in the page address, so a filtered report can be bookmarked or sent to a colleague.

Sorting. Click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse the direction.

Excel export. Depreciation, End Of Life Assets and every tab of Events have an Export to Excel button that downloads what the report is currently showing, filters included. Export the filtered view rather than the whole table when you only need part of it.

Category permissions. If a user has been limited to specific asset categories on the users page, every report shows them only the categories they have access to. Totals and counts are calculated from what they can see, so two people can open the same report and correctly see different numbers.