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Change dep key from Dep / period to Dep / day

Former Member
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Hi Nathan, Senior Experts,

Please help me understand one concern around change of dep key from Dep / Period to Dep / day.

Now after activating EA Fin i have seen a change in system message and behavior, where system issue massage

AB722 "Changing setting for depreciation to the day not allowed within year"

and if i make the change effective from start of next year, i am allowed to make the changes.

Does that mean, system is now supporting updating the ANLB & ANLC dependent fields, when we do Year end in sub-Ledger.

Or is this function still un-supported. (Change of dep key from Periodic Dep calculation to Dep / day)

I currently don't have a system where i can actually perform year end close and test,

I hope you can share some knowledge out of experience.

Thanks in Advance.

Pankaj Bansal

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Accepted Solutions (1)

raymond_moynihan
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Hello Pankaj,

It is not possible to change from a depreciation key with Depreciation to the day to Monthly depreciation or the other way around.

In the asset master record, the first time you post to a fixed asset,
the system updates the number of periods to be taken into account in the
depreciation calculation for this fixed asset.


Therefore, in a fiscal year with 12 periods, the number of periods is
always 12 unless you use half months or depreciation to the day. If you
use half months, the number of periods is 24. If you use depreciation to
the day, the number of periods is 365.

If the depreciation start date is in a closed fiscal year, the system
must no longer change the number of periods in the asset master record
because the depreciation in the closed fiscal year was calculated on the
basis of this number of periods and must no longer be changed.


If you wish to depreciate as of a certain time considering depreciation
to the day, we recommend to transfer the asset to a new asset using
depreciation to the day. This is the only proper solution.

I hope this helps to clarify the system behaviour,

regards

Ray

Answers (3)

Answers (3)

Former Member
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hi,

once assigned periodic depreciation key  in asset master. changes not allowed for depreciation of the day key

go to ABUMN  transfer asset from old to new and assign new depreciation key then please check

Former Member
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Thanks Arvinda!

Former Member
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Thanks experts,

I completely understand what you said and agree with.

Now question is, Is the message issued mis-leading "Dep key cannot be changed within fiscal year".

Client is not convinced with explanation, and user was able to change dep key(Period based) to other dep key (Daily dep), with start of next fiscal year (Time interval), and i am able to do so in our test environments as well.

Has SAP thought about this, or there is something hiding underneath which we are not aware of.

Thanks in Advance.

Pankaj Bansal

former_member190652
Contributor
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Hi Pankaj,

Even after EA-FIN activation, you can't change the depreciation calculation methodology from periodic to daily.  There is no change in procedure even now.

Please check SAP Note 1795678 which confirms this behaviour.

Regards,

Sridhar