Deep Fixed Asset Expertise. Built to Become a System.

The founder, and the reason the firm exists

Founder Angela Bolton brings more than 27 years of specialized fixed asset experience across accounting, systems, data, capital projects, implementations, reporting and transformation — most recently at Sage Software, and before that inside the finance and systems teams of capital-intensive organizations.

That range matters more than any single part of it. Fixed asset problems do not respect departmental boundaries: a reconciliation failure can originate in project setup, a reporting gap can originate in a conversion decision made years earlier, and a software complaint can turn out to be a governance problem wearing a software costume. Seeing all of those environments is what makes it possible to tell them apart.

Fixed Asset Consultant was founded to make that judgment available as a service — and then to make it repeatable. The methodology, the assessment structure, the delivery model and the documented findings are the firm's intellectual property. Angela's experience is where it came from; it is not where it stays.

Practically, that means engagements are designed to leave something behind: written policy, documented process, reconciled data, trained people, and reasoning that outlasts whoever happened to be in the room. An organization that becomes dependent on its consultant has bought the wrong thing.

27+ years in the fixed asset lifecycle

Hands-on experience spanning systems, data, accounting, capital projects, implementations, reporting and organizational change.

Independent by design

No software to sell and no platform to defend. The perspective we bring to the table is the client's lifecycle.

Whole-environment method

Governance, policy, process, people, data, systems, controls, security, reporting, documentation, knowledge dependency, risk.

Flexible engagement models

Defined assessments, scoped projects, and ongoing advisory relationships — sized to the decision in front of you.

Published point of view

Regular writing on CIP, componentization, data quality and capital planning, on Insights and on LinkedIn.

Fixed Asset Lifecycle Intelligence™

The working name for how we look at an environment: not as an accounting function, a system, or a data set, but as one operating system with a dozen interacting parts. Depth in each of these is what makes it possible to say which one is actually causing the problem.

Accounting & policy

Capitalization, componentization, useful lives, placed-in-service determination, and the policy language that makes those decisions repeatable.

Systems & implementation

Fixed asset system implementation, configuration, conversion, testing and optimization — from the business side of the table.

Data & conversion

Migration, cleanup, mapping, mass change, reconciliation and validation, where every field carries a downstream consequence.

Capital projects & CIP

Project setup through closeout, placed-in-service, capitalization and the handoffs between projects, procurement and accounting.

Reporting & controls

Consistent definitions, reconcilable numbers, and controls the process can actually sustain.

Organizational change

Training, documentation, adoption and knowledge continuity — the part that decides whether a fix survives.

How we work

01

The problem showing up in Fixed Assets isn't always a Fixed Asset problem.

Symptoms surface where the reporting is, not where the cause is. We look across the lifecycle before recommending a remedy, because fixing the wrong layer is expensive and looks like progress.
02

Diagnose before you build.

Automating, migrating or reconfiguring an environment nobody has examined produces a faster version of the same problem. The assessment exists so that decisions get made on evidence.
03

Expertise should end up in the organization.

Every engagement is expected to leave documented process, written reasoning and internal capability behind. A dependency is not a deliverable.
04

Say the uncomfortable thing plainly.

Findings are written to be acted on. That includes the ones about ownership, capability and decisions that were made under pressure and never revisited.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Capital-intensive organizations where fixed assets are material and the environment around them has grown faster than the process: healthcare systems, retail and hospitality, manufacturing, and organizations moving through acquisitions, divestitures or system consolidation.

The people we work with are usually controllers, CFOs, fixed asset and capital accounting leaders, and the finance-systems owners who inherited an environment they did not design.

START HERE

Prefer to just talk it through? Email angela@fixedassetconsultant.com or use the intake form.

LET'S TALK

Bring us the problem you cannot name yet.

The first conversation is about what is actually happening in your fixed asset environment — not a pitch, and not a scoping exercise you have to prepare for.

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Fixed Asset Consultant • Founded by Angela Bolton • angela@fixedassetconsultant.com