Depreciate addition over remaining useful life of original asset

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have an existing asset that was capitalised 01.Feb.2015 with a 3 year useful life, say for example with an original value of $900.

I then wish to make an addition to the original asset of $500 via a sub-asset, and want to depreciate this evenly over the remaining useful life of the original asset, in the case of from 01.Aug,2016, that would be over 18 months.

I would expect there to be a monthly increase of $27.77 in depreciation for the depreciation of the addition.

How do I get this to be the case in SAP?

Using LINA or LINR key doesn't seem to work, and I cannot select the useful life of the sub asset in months, only in full years.

Please help advise how this can be achieved?

[Former Member]

Hi,

According to me, as you have created the Sub Asset, the sub asset and the main asset are 2 different assets and are not dependent on each other. So in you case I think the option would be to assign the LINR Depreciation key and the useful life to be 1.5 years.

Regards,

Malhar.

[Former Member]

Yes, Malhar is correct. I didn't realize the additional acquisition value is booked to a subasset. If the additional value was booked to the main asset, there would be no issue.

[Former Member]

Hello E Private,

When you add new value to an existing asset that is already depreciating the depreciation engine will recalculate the planned values. There a couple of ways you can correct your issue to get the desire result.

So it's already depreciated for 18 periods.

As seen below:

You should create a new straight-line depreciation key and assign it to the asset.

To create the new dep key go to  transaction code AFAMA and create a new key as follows.

Test this out and let me know how it goes.