I would think that the easiest way to do this would be to populate a location field for all of your assets, then use the File/Company Utilities/Merge Companies function. In the new database with the combined locations, you'd be able to sort your reports by location.

 Hello LaDonna, I've had to make mass changes several times. And in your case, what I would do is (in group view for all active assets) select all assets with the Select All button from the toolbar.Select Edit/Replace from the menu bar. In the Replace Box that pops up change G/L Asset Acct No from the old account number to the new ...

 Jeff, Have you found a solution to your problem? I am going through something similar also. I have an idea to export the file into excel, add the user defined descriptions, change my import map to include the new field, then import that file into a new company. I have not done it yet because I will be losing history. Ron

 Usually I cannot import without the correct date format, but I checked out what you said. Guess what? You are correct. Any date formated as "general" imported as 01/01/9999. Thank you much.

My G/L Date will sometimes read "01/01/9999", afer I've imported new entries. Does anyone know why this happens?

 You may not need this, but since it's on one-time report you'll be able to run only during the merge (if you use Company Utilities), you might want to run an Asset Map Report. This will match old system numbers by original company to your new system numbers.

 I have not had to do this yet, but I believe a closed period can be reopened.

 My practice has always been to create a new asset for credits. I'd do this especially if the original asset is from a previous year, where depreciation expense reports have already been recorded. If I were in your place, I would either "undo last transaction" for that asset or readjust to original value, and then follow your ...

 Nancy, are you still working on this? If yes, I would suggest that, in order to not have to deal with all of the 2007 and earlier disposals and transfers, you create a group that includes active assets, disposed assets (that were only disposed during 2008, and transferred assets (that were transferred during 2008). You could then use the ...

 When I have assets that were disposed or transferred during the year, I will run an end-of-year report showing all assets, but sorted by activity. Activity=A will give an accurate count of my active assets. Activity=D will show my disposed assets, with their activity during the year. And the Net Grand Total will give me an accurate ...