Boring accountancy

[hlg]

A suggestion for one or two extra items in the company information or finance windows:

1. Fixed assets. To all intents and purposes, the sale value of pulling up all the railways the company owns (perhaps less the cost of demolishing all the stations, signals, airports etc.)

This is probably useful for liquidation purposes only.

2. Depreciation. An entry could be made showing the current value of vehicles owned, against their replacement cost (either by new vehicles of the same type, or if obsolete, by their nearest equivalent in terms of capacity, or speed, or horsepower).

This could also be expressed as a fraction. If the ratio is more than 50%, the company is running mainly new stock. Less than 50% might mean thinking about replacement costs early. Less than 25% means the company is probably running a collection of ancient hacks which spend most of their time standing still belching black smoke (and the company is quite likely ready to go bankrupt).

[jonty-comp]

Possible: Probably, but would require more CPU
Needed: I'm not so sure I don't think I'd use it, but that's just me.

[krtaylor]

I would like to see a complete overhaul of the accounting window, properly categorizing things and allowing drill-down. But I expect that would be a TON of work, and not used by very many. While you were at it, you'd want to fix some of the other accounting gameplay issues, like no maintenance cost for track, etc.