Understanding Cost Inflation Adjustments

For accurate financial reporting and income tax, Colombian companies adjust the cost amounts of their assets for inflation. These adjustments are recorded in fixed asset inflation adjustment accounts according to the government's requirements. The asset's adjusted cost, along with the depreciation inflation adjustment, is used to calculate depreciation.

Note: To adjust current period cost adjustment amounts for inflation, make the cost adjustments before you perform inflation adjustment for the current period. Otherwise, make the cost adjustments after you perform inflation adjustment for the current period.

You set up cost inflation adjustments accounts by company, entering the information by each company and cost account and specifying the related credit (monetary correction) and debit accounts that the system uses to generate the inflation adjustment journal entry. If you use only one ledger, the debit account is the cost inflation adjustment account. If you use two ledgers (subledger for inflation adjustments), the debit account is the same as the cost account. In either case, the credit account is the monetary correction account.