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Depreciation with Skiped Periods

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:12 +0000

I have uploaded assets from legacy system with the depreciation value uptill end of may 2009. Now in running the depreciation AFAB transaction, unplanned puting period 06.

The SAP system is calculating depreciation from january and I intend to post depreciation just for June, so how can I skip the periods 01 to 05.

The solution are:

Go to OAYC transaction, select your company code and double click on period in which depreciation was posted.

Here mention Fiscal Year 2009 and period 5 for depreciation area 01. So that with this SAP system will start calculating depreciation from 06th period only.

After maintaining the settings for During the year Legacy asset transfers, we also need to enter the depreciation for Period 1 to Period 05 in “Takeover Values” screen of Legacy Asset in “Depreciation Posted” field.

Posting after executing AJRW transaction

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:55:44 +0000

I am planning to do the fiscal year change using transaction AJRW. I understand that Ican continue to keep both the fiscal years open and I can use AJAB transaction and close the old year later. I want to know, if I make any postings in the old year, would it get posted in period 12 or start using period 13.

It depends on which period is open for posting. If 12 is open it will get posted in 12. Check OB52 transaction?for open/close periods in SAP FI module and post accordingly.- Kartik

Intercompany Asset Transfer Problem

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:13:01 +0000

I am stuck trying to do the Intercompany asset transfer via ABT1N transaction. However I keep getting the following SAP errors:

When I enter ‘current year acquisition‘

Transaction type 275 not possible (no affiliated company specified) Message no. AA389

When I enter ‘prior year acquisition‘

Transaction type 230 not possible (no affiliated company specified) Message no. AA389

Any clue as to why this is so and is there any other way, I can do an intercompany asset transfer.

The Solution is:

Check whether the Partner id or “Company” is maintained in the global settings of both company codes (Financials / Global settings / Companycode / Global parameters).

How to cancel the depreciation of area 30?

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:03:34 +0000

There is no SAP transaction code for reversing depreciation.

But, you can zero the depreciation with the dep.key. “0000” in the dep.area 30 – if you assign this dep key, it’ll reverse whatever the depreciation posted in the next depreciation run.

Legacy Transfer Data

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:04:29 +0000

I am uploading the asset legacy data by AS91 transaction. Among the depreciation areas it is a book depreciation area (01) and a tax depreciation area (15). In the custominzing the area 15 receives APC values from the area 01.

For the transfer some assets have different APC values in these areas (01 different than 15). I know that is not enough logical to have different values (because in the new assets area 15 will be receive values from 01).

So my question is if we could have any problem with these assets, because of uploading different values in the areas? Anyone was in this situation?

Let it copy the values from 01 area to 15 area in AS91 transaction. Anyhow you will update the opening balances of your 15 area by group assets. No problem, you can carry on. – Rajeswari

Configuration of new depreciation key

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:36:08 +0000

Requirement of new dep.key is as below.

Depreciation for 1st year – 60% of the value
Depreciation for second year and so on – 20% each year on straight line method

Example scenario: Cost: HKD 100,000

Depreciation for first year:
HKD 60,000 (Cost HKD100,000 X 60%)

Depreciation for second year and so forth:
HKD 8,000 (Cost HKD40,000 X 20%)

Can you please suggest how this depreciation key can be created?

The solutions are:

You can do it this using the ‘change over method’ in dep.key.

In depreciation key configuration ‘change over method’ field available. select the option with the useful life and do the same accordingly – SKS

Where do we specify depreciaiton rate in depreciation key? For strainght line method of depreciation with changeover. So where do I specify that for 1st year it is 60% and remaining years it is 20%?

In AFAMS transaction, i.e in Multi-Level methods select the multilevel method you are using and there you can state the percentages year wise.

You will be maintaining multi level method in AFAMS transaction and correspondingly the year and against the year the required percentage.

As you said you woudl like to maintain it for Depreciation key for straight line method – Multi level has to be maintained.

In the Maintain Depreciation Key (AFAMA transaction) in Assignment of calculation methods you assign the abobe mentioned multi level method against “Multilev.meth.” field. – Giridhar

Asset number with acquisition year and acquisition month Report

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:05:05 +0000

Is there any standard SAP report for FI-AA that shows assets with acquisition year and acquisition month/period?

SAP Transaction code: S_ALR_87012050

We can create Sort Versions (OAVI transaction) and add field PRGJR (fiscal year) from SAP table: ANLAV and others as per your requirement.

Then use this sort variant in this SAP report.

How to: set default FI document type in ABAON / ABAVN

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:59:20 +0000

SAP Transaction code: AO74 use to set a default FI document type for retirement transaction in FI-AA (Asset Accounting Module)

Asset Value Carry forward to Next Year Problem

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:52:11 +0000

I am facing one SAP problem that I have deactivated one of my asset in year 2008 which is showing date as 14.05.2008. And when I am running? AR03 transaction. It is showing balance Rs..0.00/- for year 2008.

But same when I am running for 2009 it is showing value in Cumulative Acquisition Value column. Please can any one tell me how this happen ? And my client wants to remove that value for year 2009.

I believe your Asset which is deactivated does not have any value. that is its net book value is Zero and was deactivated in 2008. Now if it is showing up in 2009 with some acquisition value.

The solution are as follows: – Sanjeev

Check if someone has activated it again and put some acq in 2009. (though it is not a pssobility its worth checking.
Try to run a report RACORR55 which should make correct entries in all the asset tables.
Even after this if your problem exists then your Asset work list (AR03) has got some problem while deriving values from table. check if there is any OSS note else you can also write to SAP.

Depreciation calculated on AuC value

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:45:11 +0000

I have purchased an AuC of Rs. 107491.40. Now as?I am running the Depreciation Posting through AFAB transaction, it is calculating depreciation of 0.40 paisa.

Although the depreciation key assigned is 0%.??It is calculating the depreciation of 0.40 paisa.

What can be the solution for it?

Use the standard depreciation key “0000″ or create a own depreciation key with the base method 0002.
and Classe 0 No assignment

When you use a key with 0 % you have still the risk of rounding differences

Useful life of Fixed Assets

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:57:58 +0000

Is there any standard SAP report or Transaction code to know the “Useful life of the Assets” in the SAP system?

Check?both SAP tables as follows:

Table ANLB
Table ANLC

Current Year assets not getting transferred

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:14:55 +0000

We are currently trying to do transfers in our system. We are substituting the cost center for the assets and are using substitutions for the same. The issue we are facing is that for assets with ‘Capitalised Date On’ in the current year, the transfers are not taking place.

I get an error ‘Field Original Asset is not ready for input’. On double clicking the error message, the explanation is:

While creating or changing an asset using function module ASSET_MASTERRECORD_MAINTENANCE, you tried to assign a value to field Original asset. However, field Original asset is not ready for input.

I am facing the above issue only for assets in the current fiscal year. The transfers take place properly in ABT1N transaction for assets with ‘Capitalised Date On’ in the current year,. The SAP issue seems to be with AR31 transaction.

The solution is:

Go to asset master data screen layout and make the field ‘AIBN1‘ – original asset as optional (instead of suppressed).

F1 help on this field says:

This field contains the number of the original asset, which was transferred to the asset being displayed.

Asset under construction field is the “original asset” field. Make it as either “Option” or “Display” – Kartik D.

AS01 with reference to existing asset in SAP

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:02:34 +0000

When trying to create a new asset with reference to an existing asset in SAP. In this case, the new asset will be in a different asset class from the original asset.

The two asset classes have been configured for different depreciation terms. However when I use AS01 transaction and enter the reference asset, the depreciation terms on the new asset now become the same as the reference asset.

The depreciation term of new asset can be changed while creating. However, if there is a simple config step that says don’t copy the depreciation keys from the existing asset, use whatever the new asset class is configured for.

The solution is:

Go AO21 transaction then un-select the copy box against depreciation key indicator. – Jave