Purpose of t-code AFAR u2013 Recalculate Depreciation

[Former Member]

When would it be necessary to run this process?

Planned deprecation amounts appear to be updated automatically when we change a life, depreciation key, etc. (it doesnu2019t appear necessary to run AFAR to get these values to update).

Thanks very much!

Jon "Sap Newbie"

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

whenever you change into your asset like depreciation % or useful life, you need to recalculate by using AFAR. and that changes will display which you have changed in AFAR when you executed AFAB next time.

Regards,

pooja

[shanid_mp]

Hi,

Just adding a scenario which required to run AFAR before running AFAB.

If you are using a unit production depreciation key and in between changed the units in AO25, you need to run AFAR to update the planned values.

Regards

SM

[former_member205615]

Hi Jon

In general, you need to run AFAR for depreciation re-calculation in following cases:

1, after change terms of depreciation calculation in asset master data or relevant tables

2, after coding changes, e.g. note implementation, SP upgrade etc

3, before monthly/yearly closing

As you mentioned above, when you change asset master data, e.g. UL, dep. Key etc, the planned dep. Will be updated automatically thatu2019s because depreciation re-calculation will be triggered when you save those master data changes. However, there are some cases, the depreciation re-calculation does not take place that causes planned depreciation amounts are different with the amount contained in table ANLC, afterwards message AU390 issues in AW01N consequently. In such cases, you have to run AFAR to re-calculate depreciation and update the newly calculated figure into table ANLC.

Hope itu2019s helpful for you.

Regards

George