Capitalizing of PROJECTS from Last Financial Year

[Former Member]

Dear SAP Experts,

This query is linked to the thread above but for previous fiscal year.

(Checked couple of stuff on the AFAB . AW01N Transactions but no help).

• Our Financial Year in AU is from JUL 2015 - JUN 2016.

• Some projects were completed in last Financial Year but capitalized in current Financial Year.

• For the assets capitalized in current financial year, with completion date of last financial year, we want the amount of depreciation to be posted in the current Financial year for each asset be calculated from the capitalized date of last Financial year.

• For example if an asset is created in November 15 with a completion or capitalized date of Dec 14, we want the depreciation posted in November 15 to be total of for the 5 months (July – Nov) of this financial year and 6 months from last financial year(Dec – June 15).

This is not happening at the moment.Can someone please advise us as to what we need to do to have this happen.

Please refer to snapshot below from our SAP system.

Thanks

Vishal

SCN user

[former_member198650]

Hi Vishal,

You have to post unplanned depreciation for the assets by ABAA for the last year depreciation. System wont calculate automatically for the last year depreciation. Because you have closed the last year. Even though if you have opened the year, you have to post the depreciation in last year only not in current year. So better option is post unplanned depreciation.

Regards,

Mukthar

[Former Member]

Hi Mukthar - Thanks for your reply and assistance in this Regard!

Unfortunately the Accounts Department has lot of Depreciation for various Projects to be posted and they are following this Workaround mentioned by you.

In fact we are only concerned with the fact that PLANNED VALUES are not shown from the date Asset was CAPITALIZED.

In Asset Explorer the Expectation is to see the PLANNED VALUES from the the start of Acquisition Date and not from the first PERIOD of current FISCAL year.

NOTE: Previous YEAR cannot be opened for POSTING hence the only requirement would be to see at least the values against the Planned Values Tab.

Would appreciate and request further assistance in this Regard.

Note: Other solutions I have received in this Regard are as below,but our only concern mostly would be to see the planned Value in previous periods.

1. In the asset master, in the depreciation areas tab, change the ordinary depreciation start date. I believe next time you run the depreciation, system will automatically post the depreciation.

2. If option 1, is not possible, what you can do is use an unplanned depreciation transaction type and manually post the depreciation.

Thanks

Vishal

SCN SAP USER

[Former Member]

Hi Vishal,

Not possible without opening Fiscal periods, another option could have been to use Depreciation key with "Remaining Useful Life" method, but for that you will have to maintain expired useful life in each asset, which involves manual work as well.

Other options like massaging Database directly etc, are not advisable and should not be considered without due consulting.

Reach out directly to SAP, and see if they can provide some consulting solution.

BR

Pankaj Bansal

[Former Member]

Thanks Pankaj for the Reply!

We are going through the Steps mentioned in SAP Note:

1823307 - Depreciation Calculation: Ord.depr.start date is before the Asset value date and in a prior fiscal year.

Would you be able to share inputs on this Note like:

If it's applicable and if it can have any adverse effects with refernce to CONFIG changes highlighted in this OSS NOTE.

Hopefully this should help.We are Still Exploring around this OSS Note.