Guides to asset management, written by the people who deploy it
MeltX publishes practical guides to fixed asset management, depreciation under the Companies Act 2013, physical verification, public procurement on GeM and the RTI lifecycle. Nothing is gated, nothing asks for an email address first, and every one of them is the answer we would give you on a call.
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- Guides published
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- Subjects covered
- 46 min
- To read all of them
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Each entry lists its own contents, so you can tell whether it answers your question before you open it.
- COMPLIANCE
Depreciation under the Companies Act 2013: a practical guide
How Schedule II useful life depreciation works, how it interacts with the Income Tax Act 1961, and how software automates both computations reliably.
8 minute readUpdated 2 August 2026Contents
- What Schedule II changed
- Useful lives in practice
- Residual value and the five per cent limit
- Componentisation
- Extra shift depreciation
- and 3 more
- COMPARISON
FAM vs ITAM vs ITSM: what each one actually does
FAM, ITAM and ITSM are often confused during evaluation. This guide separates them by the question each answers, who owns them, and how they connect on one platform.
8 minute readUpdated 2 August 2026Contents
- The one line difference
- What FAM is for
- What ITAM is for
- What ITSM is for
- Side by side comparison
- and 3 more
- PROCUREMENT
How government departments buy software on GeM
A walkthrough of the GeM route for software procurement in India: how the process works, what buyers should prepare, and when a tender is used instead.
7 minute readUpdated 2 August 2026Contents
- What GeM is
- Why the route matters for software
- The process, step by step
- Writing a requirement that procures well
- MSME, startup and local content preferences
- and 2 more
- METHODOLOGY
Physical asset verification and audit readiness
A methodology for physical asset verification: planning coverage, tagging, geo tagged evidence, exception classification and reconciliation that survives audit.
8 minute readUpdated 2 August 2026Contents
- Why verification is the control that matters
- Planning the exercise
- Tagging before counting
- What counts as evidence
- Classifying exceptions honestly
- and 3 more
- GOVERNMENT
Automating the RTI lifecycle: a guide for public authorities
How public authorities can automate the Right to Information lifecycle: statutory timelines, PIO and First Appellate Authority workflows, and reporting.
8 minute readUpdated 2 August 2026Contents
- Where RTI compliance actually fails
- The lifecycle to be modelled
- Statutory timelines and the clock
- Roles, queues and separation
- Exemptions, transfers and third parties
- and 2 more
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