> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.alemba.com/asm-legacy-product-documentation/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.alemba.com/asm-legacy-product-documentation/setup-and-configure-asm/setting-up-your-system/system-administration-settings/depreciation.md).

# Depreciation

These jobs can be filtered to run for specific CMDB items, CMDB Item types, Users, organizations and/or locations.  It provides a flexible automated system for monitoring and maintaining depreciations against your organization's IT infrastructure.

#### To configure depreciation, you will need to carry out the folowing:

1. **Define your CMDB Items.**
2. Create one or more depreciation schedules.
3. Define the parameters for one or more methods of depreciation.
4. Link the schedules and methods to CMDB Item Types.
5. Create and define your batch run parameters for each depreciation schedule. This executes the depreciation calculation against the CMDB Items.
6. View a log of all the batch runs.


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