•Assign a Departmental Ownership Percentage.

•Review the asset-based chargeback result.

IMPORTANT: You must have already added your departments, as described in the topic, ”Editing a Department” on page 562.

To provide information for asset-based chargeback:

1.Access Chargeback Manager, as described in ”Accessing Chargeback Manager” on page 555.

2.Do one of the following:

•Click the icon corresponding to the element.

•Click the link for an element in the right pane.

3.Click the Asset-basednode under the Chargeback Manager node.

NOTE: You can also access the tree shown in this figure from Application Viewer and System Manager:

•To access the tree from Application Viewer, click the name of an application in the Application Viewer tree. In the right pane, click the Asset Management tab.

•To access the tree from System Manager, double-click an element in the topology. In the right pane, click the Asset Management tab.

Step 1 - Specify Financial information

1.Verify the option, Step 1 - Specify Financial information, is selected at the top of the page.

2.Provide the following financial information:

•Purchase Order Number - The purchase order of the element

•*Date Purchased - The date the element was purchased. To select the date, Click the

calendar icon, . If you select a future date, the purchase date is set to today when calculating depreciation. The management server only supports dates within the years 1900 and 3000.

•Reseller - The company that directly sold you the element.

•*Purchase Price - The price of the element when it was bought

•Salvage Value - The amount of money an item is worth for salvage value. You cannot go below this number when depreciating an item.

•*Depreciation Period (months) - This time period in which you plan to keep the element.

•*Depreciation Method - Select how the depreciation is calculated:

•Straight Line - The device loses the same amount of value in each period. To learn more about how the management server calculates straight line depreciation, see ”Calculating Straight Line Depreciation” on page 573.

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