diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/SettingsController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/SettingsController.php
index 3ba114b43d..31ea724c0e 100755
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/SettingsController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/SettingsController.php
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use App\Http\Requests\SlackSettingsRequest;
 use Illuminate\Support\Str;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
+use Carbon\Carbon;
 
 /**
  * This controller handles all actions related to Settings for
@@ -636,21 +637,21 @@ class SettingsController extends Controller
         // Check if the audit interval has changed - if it has, we want to update ALL of the assets audit dates
         if ($request->input('audit_interval') != $setting->audit_interval) {
 
-            // Be careful - this could be a negative number
+            // This could be a negative number if the user is trying to set the audit interval to a lower number than it was before
             $audit_diff_months = ((int)$request->input('audit_interval') - (int)($setting->audit_interval));
-            
-            // Grab all assets that have an existing next_audit_date, chunking to handle very large datasets
-            Asset::whereNotNull('next_audit_date')->chunk(200, function ($assets) use ($audit_diff_months) {
 
-                // Update assets' next_audit_date values
-                foreach ($assets as $asset) {
-                    if ($asset->next_audit_date != '') {
-                        $old_next_audit = new \DateTime($asset->next_audit_date);
-                        $asset->next_audit_date = $old_next_audit->modify($audit_diff_months . ' month')->format('Y-m-d');
-                        $asset->forceSave();
-                    }
-                }
-            });
+            // Batch update the dates. We have to use this method to avoid time limit exceeded errors on very large datasets,
+            // but it DOES mean this change doesn't get logged in the action logs, since it skips the observer.
+            // @see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54879160/laravel-observer-not-working-on-bulk-insert
+            $affected = Asset::whereNotNull('next_audit_date')
+                ->whereNull('deleted_at')
+                ->update(
+                    ['next_audit_date' => DB::raw('DATE_ADD(next_audit_date, INTERVAL '.$audit_diff_months.' MONTH)')]
+            );
+
+            \Log::debug($affected .' assets affected by audit interval update');
+
+            
         }
 
         $alert_email = rtrim($request->input('alert_email'), ',');