How to manage depreciation and disposal of fixed assets in odoo?

Depreciation Management

Automatic Depreciation

  • Odoo generates a depreciation schedule

  • Each period creates a draft journal entry

  • You can:

    • Post manually

    • Or automate posting

Accounting Impact

  • Debit: Depreciation Expense

  • Credit: Accumulated Depreciation


Asset Disposal / Sale / Scrap/Re-evaluate

Disposal

  • Open Asset → Modify Depreciation

  • Select Disposal/ sell/ Re-evaluate/ pause
  • Set Loss Account -GL
  • Enter disposal date

  • Odoo:

    • Posts remaining depreciation

    • Removes asset value from books

    • Calculates gain or loss

Sale

  • Link disposal with customer invoice

  • Gain/Loss auto-calculated