Is everything an Asset, really?

I can't help but smile when I hear the statement, "but everything is an Asset isn't it". When I'm dropping a bin bag full of rubbish into the Wheelie Bin at home I'm thinking, "is this bin an Asset?". When I'm stacking the loo rolls in the airing cupboard (don't judge me!) I'm thinking "are the loo rolls, or is the cupboard, an asset?".

So when my wife asks me if the Wheelie Bin is set out on the pavement for the collection it would feel a bit backwards in a kind of Dr Seuss way if I said, "hang on, I'll check the Asset register and find the Bin and check when the asset record says it was last collected". It would feel more natural, wouldn't it, to look at my tasks for the day and check my completed list?

Now, this seems like a ridiculous example but extrapolate that to a school that has dozens of bins. Would you seriously expect to have each bin as an asset? Well everything is an asset isn't it? "Err, yeh..." you say. Doesn't seem so logical now does it?

The point of this is that when you're looking for a simple system that helps you plan, record and report on your day-to-day tasks little things like this become big things. You need a system that helps you record these daily tasks even if you don't consider your bins to be assets. If your system forces you to create an asset record in order to record the task then my view is, that's unnecessary, pointless, valueless effort. After all, assets are all about value. Although you don't often hear, "we value our assets", unless you're in insurance. How many times have your heard or read the statement, "our employees are our greatest asset"? or "we value our time"?

This is the ethos that anchors Every, people and time. We work hard to try to make our software easy to use, feel natural, that people enjoy using and compliments them. Give it a try, it's free to look and although we have a very good asset register as well we won't be obsessing about it.