A common business case we're facing is that when purchases are done, users don't want to use the fixed asset type right away for many reasons:

• Either because the people raising the PO are not financial people and we still don't know at this point if the purchase can be considered as fixed asset or not
• Either because purchases are done to valorize an asset under construction and most of the time the project module needs to be used to follow the construction phase and compare budget with actuals
• Last business case is that for localization purposes the purchase can't be done using the fixed asset type (seen that in Czech localization as far as I can remember) and the valorization is done afterwards directly from the Fixed Asset card

For all that it would be great to:

• Let the possibility to users to do the purchases using items or GL account
• And then to allow the valorization to be done from the Fixed Asset card by selecting the general ledger entries that should be included in the acquisition costs of the asset (for audit purposes) and automatically create a Fixed Asset Journal or G/L Journal from this selection.

I feel it is very common to have this covered in another ERP (NetSuite, SAP).