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With SAP Enhancement Package 7, a new functionality is available in Asset Accounting to manage
Parallel Valuations. The following document contains information about use of this functionality for a new
implementation customer. In OSS Note 1776828 SAP recommends activation of New Asset Accounting for
new customers. To use this solution, prerequisite is the use New GL Accounting with Ledger Approach. Prior
to New Asset Accounting, to manage parallel valuations one had to use delta depreciation areas, as only one
depreciation area (01) could post to the General Ledger in real time.
With the new solution it is now possible to post actual values to different depreciation areas in real time.
There's no need for delta postings and delta depreciation areas. In the following paragraphs I shall attempt to
explain the configuration steps involved with an example of our implementation project.
Before you actually begin implementation of New AA, take a stock of Global Settings related to General
Ledger, particularly Ledgers and Currencies. This will help you ascertain the Chart of Depreciation settings
required in Asset Accounting.
E.g. if you have two ledgers for your Company Code (leading and non leading) there must be two depreciation
areas that post in real time.
Note - This is not applicable to Depreciation areas for Investment Support. Also if there are multiple currencies
there must be a depreciation area for each currency. This ensures consistencies between General Ledger and
Asset Accounting sub ledger.
In our case we had:
Ledgers:
Leading Ledger for Indian GAAP - 0L
Non Leading Ledger for IFRS - NL
Additional Currencies:
Group Currency - INR
Hard Currency - EURO
Also we had to implement Investment Support, so additional Depreciation areas were for created for the same.
Also had a separate depreciation area to Income Tax depreciation. This is what the final Chart of Depreciation
looked like:
Now if you didn't have Investment Support in scope, area 51, 59, 71 and 75 wouldn't be required. Also if
Investment Support accounting is not applicable for Accounting Principle IFRS, area 71 and 75 wouldn't be
required.
Once this is sorted the rest of configuration settings are straight forward:
Business Functions: Activate the following Business Functions:
Copy the chart of depreciation as usual and define your depreciation areas
Assign each depreciation area to a ledger group.
For Depreciation area 60, define depreciation area 01 as Alternate depreciation area for account
determination
Asset Accounting (New)->New Asset Accounting: Preparation and Activation->Activate Asset Accounting
(New)
To enable parallel postings to different ledgers system uses a technical clearing account for Asset acquisition
and Investment support postings. This is required from a technical purpose and the balance of this account is
always zero after each posting.
See an example of integrated posting with technical clearing account at Example 1: Acquisition, Integrated
Posting - Asset Accounting (FI-AA) (New) - SAP Library.
The technical clearing account must be a reconciliation account for assets and it can't be used in account
determination for Asset Accounting (for example, tables T095, T095B, T095P)
Rest of the configuration remains unchanged. You define your asset classes, account determination,
depreciation keys etc. as usual.
Area 60 - Ledger NL
References:
1. OSS Note 1776828
2. Release Notes for EHP7
3. Various Help.sap.com pages on New Asset Accounting
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