Expired useful life

[Former Member]

Hello everybody,

I don't understand well as SAP update the expired useful life in years and months.

I must upload assets with AS91.

The expired useful life is calculated from the start dep. date or from the capitalization date?

What happened at the end of the year?

If I use the transaction AJRW for posting in the new year the expired useful life is updated?

Thanks.

Best regards.

Roby

[Former Member]

Many thanks Bernhard

I have this doubt beacuase if I press F1 in the field 'expired useful life' SAP says that the value is calculatied from the capitalization date.

For me is strange because the capitalization date is often different from the the start of the depreciation.

About AJRW.

I must migrate from SAP to SAP assets with AS91.

The upload will be done in January with the value of the assset at 31.12.2010.

I will charge the useful life (in years and months) and the expired useful life (in years and months).

To have the correct expired useful life of the assets the users must load the transaction AJRW in the old SAP before to extract the file that will be upload in the new SAP. Is it true?

Many thanks.

Best regards.

Roby

[former_member205041]

Hello Roby,

I'm not sure what is your question.

1) The expired useful life is calculated from the dep. start date.

2) Example

Depr. start date: 03.08.2008

Period control: 01 Pro rata at period start date

End of 31.12.2008: 5 months -

End of 31.12.2009: 12 months - sum 1 year 5 month

End of 31.12.2010: 12 months - sum 2 years 5 month

End of 31.12.2011: 12 months - sum 3 years 5 month

End of 31.12.2012: 12 months - sum 4 years 5 month

End of 31.12.2013: 7 months - sum 5 years

In AW01N you have a good overview how the the system calculates:

2010

Useful life 005 / 000

Exp. usefl life 001 / 005

Remaining life 003 / 007

2011

Useful life 005 / 000

Exp. usefl life 002 / 005

Remaining life 002 / 007

2012

Useful life 005 / 000

Exp. usefl life 003 / 005

Remaining life 001 / 007

2013

Useful life 005 / 000

Exp. usefl life 004 / 005

Remaining life 000 / 007

2014

Useful life 005 / 000

Exp. usefl life 005 / 005

Remaining life 000 / 000

(for ANLC lines the ARJW is necessary).

3 You spoke about AS91

If you make a legacy data transfer during the fiscal year you have to take into accout the following:

- In OAYC you have to specify the period in which the depr. is already posted.

- In AS01 you can't enter cum. values. Cum values are generally from a closed fiscal year. You have to press the button transactions and and enter here the transactions.

- the depr. which is already posted you have to enter at "posted depreciation.

Regards Bernhard

Edited by: Bernhard Kirchner on Nov 6, 2010 12:28 AM

Edited by: Bernhard Kirchner on Nov 6, 2010 12:29 AM

[Former Member]

Dear Bernhard!

I am facing with very strange situation. I have one asset already upload in Production System with following parameters in master data

- In General data tab: Capitalized on 01.08.2010

Acquisition year: 2010 008

- In Deprec.area: Depreciation key Straight line

Useful life: 1 year + 3 period, Odep start: 01.08.2010

In AW01N:

- Planned value tab: One transaction TType: 100 with the amount of 264.000.000

=> For 2010

- Posted value tab:

Status Period Ord.dep Uplnd dep. Reserves Revaluation Crcy

Legacy data transfer 9 35.200.000- 0 0 0

Posted 10 17.600.000- 0 0 0

Posted 11 17.600.000- 0 0 0

Posted 12 17.600.000- 0 0 0

=> But for 2011

Status Period Ord.dep Uplnd dep. Reserves Revaluation Crcy

Posted 1 176.000.000-

I am still confuse why in 2011 the system posted depreciation for this asset with the amount of 176.000.000 while this asset should have to depreciate for more 10 months (from Period 1 to Period 10 in 2011). And the wrong amount 176.000.000 is the net book value of 2011 not depreciation amount posted in period 01/2011.

Please help me resolve this problem!

I will raise your point!

Thanks so much!