• Disposal of a non-existent asset

    Recently found out that a company billed us in error and in turn we set up an asset we never had in December 2018. Vendor gave us a credit memo for the asset which we took against payment of other invoices in October 2020. I need to dispose of this asset…
  • Accounting for a Fixed Asset’s Impairment Loss. Are you at a loss as to whether you have a loss?

    The concept of impairments is only used for financial reporting purposes and never for tax. For tax purposes, an asset is either depreciable or not. It is a different story under GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Prnciples), however. Under both…