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It is highly recommended that a there is a backup of the company prior to continuing:

1. Calculate depreciation to the period before the desired period (Depreciation | Depreciate).
   
   • NOTE: This run of depreciation is just to set the Prior Thru date in the assets. Do not attempt to tie this report to old reports.
     
2. Calculate depreciation for the desired period.
3. Run the desired reports (for that same period).
4. Run depreciation back to the current period (repeat Step 1 and 2 back up current period) when finished.

The above option has some considerations and drawbacks:

• While disposed and transferred items will show as they were when depreciation was previously ran to the data, partial disposals and partial transfers will not appear the same.
• Deleted Assets will remain deleted and will NOT appear on the report.
• Any asset with a BEG DATE or PRD DATE information, will not show if the BEG DATE or PRD DATE is after the depreciation run date.
• There may be rounding differences when rerunning for past period, or rerunning back to current period.
• If the adjustments have recently been turned on, the adjustments will hit in the prior period.

If any of these issues continue once depreciation is ran back to current period, it may be necessary to restore the backup file.

Another Option (if available) is to Restore a Company Backup to another database or Company name.

1. Go to: File | Company Utilities | Restore Company | Click Yes if prompted to close current company.
2. Browse to the location of the backup file | Select the backup file.
3. Highlight the company(s) to restore | Click Next | Highlight the database to restore the company to | Click Next.
4. Select the Smart Purge or Do Not Purge option (The Purge History option refers to removing information from the History tab of all assets.) | Click Restore.
   • NOTE: For Sybase SQL version of FAS Asset Accounting: If the combined number of assets in all companies in the existing database will exceed 8,000-10,000 assets, then it is strongly recommended to restore into a new database.
   • NOTE: When restoring into an existing database:
     • A prompt: A Company with the name of: "Your Company" already exists in database: "Your Database" | Enter a New Company Name (i.e. Restored FY 2005) | Click Rename.
     • Caution: ****Do NOT click the OVERWRITE option or the current companies information will be lost****
5. Once the restore is completed: Open the Restored Company | Depreciate back to the Desired period | Run the desired reports.
   • NOTE: If the Company Backup was made when depreciation was ran through the desire period: Depreciation will not need to be recalculated using this method.
6. Optional: Delete the restored company/database.