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Practical, no-fluff articles on tracking, tagging, audits, maintenance and depreciation — written to help you run a register you can trust, whatever software you use.

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Audits

5 ways to cut your audit time

Five practical changes — register prep, phone-based counting, zone-scoped sessions, bulk RFID reads and automatic variance sorting — that shorten physical asset audits.

Depreciation

Straight-line vs declining-balance depreciation (with worked examples)

How straight-line and double-declining-balance depreciation work, with fully worked numbers, the salvage-value floor, switching rules, partial years and when to use each.

RFID

On-metal RFID: what to know

Why standard RFID labels fail on metal assets, how on-metal tags work, mounting that lasts, and how to test tags before committing to a whole fleet.

Audits

How to run a physical asset audit: a step-by-step playbook

A practical seven-step playbook for physical asset audits: scope, register preparation, counting methods, teams, counting, variance reconciliation and reporting.

Technology

Asset tag selection: QR vs barcode vs NFC vs RFID

A practical decision process for choosing asset tags: how they will be read, what the asset is made of, what a loss costs, and who does the reading — with a mixed-tag example.

Depreciation

Net book value explained: calculation, disposals and write-offs

What net book value (NBV) is, how to calculate it, why it is not market value, and how it drives gain or loss on disposal, audit write-offs and impairment — with worked examples.

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Pick the one that sounds most like your week. Each path leads to an article, a deep guide and the part of Asetavo that helps.

We lose track of assets

Give every item a scannable identity and record custody, not just location.

Our audits take too long

Prepare the register, count with phones, scope by zone and let variances sort themselves.

Our maintenance is reactive

Log every repair against the asset, rank by criticality, then plan PM where it pays.

We don’t know what our assets are worth

Put cost, life and method on the register and let depreciation keep NBV correct.

Assets move between locations unseen

Put UHF RFID readers at the doors that matter and alert on zone exits.

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