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Configuration for Depreciation — set up once by a controller and then left alone for a year.

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Country packs

Where a company’s country publishes a standard arrangement — which books it keeps, how its statutes cut the fleet, and what each cut attracts — installing that country’s pack writes the calendar, books, classes, policies and rules in one step, and leaves you only the two things it can’t know: your own ledger accounts, and the assets themselves. Only offered where there’s something to install: a company with no book yet, and a pack matching its country (others are reachable behind Other countries, since a company incorporated in one jurisdiction and filing in another is ordinary). Two packs ship today:
A pack writes neither book ready to post: ledger accounts are yours to add and map afterwards, and a note on the install result says exactly what else it deliberately left for you to confirm — the India pack, for instance, asks you to confirm the Schedule II life against your own technical assessment rather than assuming the statute’s default is right for every asset.
Installing a pack for a second company in the same organisation reuses classes and policies already present under the same codes rather than duplicating them, so anything you’ve already edited is left exactly as it is.

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Accounting books

One book is one set of answers about the whole fleet. A book names a company, its currency, and a fiscal calendar; mark it pooled if it depreciates a block of assets as one figure rather than machine by machine. A book with no posting rule mapped can compute a draft but can’t hand over a journal.

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Asset classes and policies

A class groups the fleet the way your accountant does — a Schedule II class, a MACRS property class, an Income Tax block — deliberately separate from the engineering categories assets are grouped by elsewhere. A policy is a method (straight line, written-down value, a published rate table, or units of production), a life or rate, a residual percentage, and a first-period convention. A rule maps one class to one policy within one book, which is what actually decides what an enrolled asset depreciates by.

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Rate tables

A named set of published percentages — MACRS’s GDS tables, for instance — that a policy can point at instead of computing a rate itself, for a regime whose depreciation is defined as a table rather than a formula.

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Accounts and posting

The ledger accounts a book’s journal posts to. Until these are mapped, a book computes drafts correctly and simply can’t post them.