Depreciation Formula

I don't expect to get any bites on this one, but, "Hey, it's Friday -- it
could happen!"

Just got this one dropped on my lap -- we have a spreadsheet with items that
we depreciate -- this spreadsheep has been touched/maniulated by many over
the years (I just gained access to it, since it's not doing what the Finance
folks would like it to do).

Here's what it does ...
Col H has a description of the item
Col J has In Service Date
Col L has the Life of the item (ie, 60 mos, 120 mos)
Col M has the Original Cost of the item
Col N figures the Monthly Depreciation (=M2/L2)
Col O has Total Accumulated Depreciation (from In Service
Date until 12/31/Previous Year)
Col P-AA has the Depreciation Value (per month) Jan- Dec
Col AB has the Total Depreciation Value for the
preceeding 12-Month period
Col AC has Total Accumulated Depreciated
(12/31/Previous Year + Current Year)
Col AD has New Book Value (=+M2-AC2 OR Original Cost -
Total Accumulated Value)

Here's what I need ... I need some sort of IF statement (I assume this will
be the most logical concept) that will continue to calculate the fields up
to the point where the New Book = ZERO (or until the Total Accumulated
Depreciation is EQUAL to the Original Cost)

What's is the best way to approach this?

Thanks in advance.

You will need to surround each calculation with an If statement, as in:

N3: =if(ad2=0,"",m3/l3)

Repeat this for each cell where you want it to be blank once the asset has been
fully depreciated.

You will have to create enough rows for the longest life of any asset (eg 10
years in your example). Once you've created the first row, you should be able to
simply copy down all the columns.

--
Regards,
Fred


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I don't expect to get any bites on this one, but, "Hey, it's Friday -- it could
happen!"

Just got this one dropped on my lap -- we have a spreadsheet with items that
we depreciate -- this spreadsheep has been touched/maniulated by many over the
years (I just gained access to it, since it's not doing what the Finance folks
would like it to do).

Here's what it does ...
Col H has a description of the item
Col J has In Service Date
Col L has the Life of the item (ie, 60 mos, 120 mos)
Col M has the Original Cost of the item
Col N figures the Monthly Depreciation (=M2/L2)
Col O has Total Accumulated Depreciation (from In Service Date
until 12/31/Previous Year)
Col P-AA has the Depreciation Value (per month) Jan- Dec
Col AB has the Total Depreciation Value for the preceeding 12-Month period
Col AC has Total Accumulated Depreciated (12/31/Previous Year + Current Year)
Col AD has New Book Value (=+M2-AC2 OR Original Cost -
Total Accumulated Value)

Here's what I need ... I need some sort of IF statement (I assume this will be
the most logical concept) that will continue to calculate the fields up to the
point where the New Book = ZERO (or until the Total Accumulated Depreciation
is EQUAL to the Original Cost)

What's is the best way to approach this?

Thanks in advance.