Cross-System Depreciation Area

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1 Cross-System Depreciation Area

Definition
A depreciation area that has the same function and significance in all charts of depreciation within a corporate group. A cross-system depreciation area consists of
a key and a description only. It has no control parameters of its own. Cross-system depreciation areas are needed only if assets are transferred between company
codes that have different charts of depreciation.

Use
When you transfer assets between company codes, the two company codes might not use the same chart of depreciation. Nonetheless, there could be
depreciation areas in the two charts of depreciation that actually have the same function, although they have different keys. Cross-system depreciation areas are
used to control the transfer of values during intercompany asset transfer.
By defining cross-system depreciation areas in Customizing for Asset Accounting , you ensure the unique assignment to one another of depreciation areas with
the same function. You assign depreciation areas from different charts of depreciation, but that have the same function, to the same cross-system depreciation
area. This assignment provides all of these depreciation areas with one key that is valid in all clients, but is at the same time independent of the key of the
depreciation area in its local client.
In most cases global depreciation areas are not required. You only need global depreciation areas if:
You use different charts of depreciation, but the function of the certain depreciation areas is the same.
There is one depreciation area that you do not want to transfer. Then do not assign that area to a cross-system depreciation area.
Some depreciation areas have the same key, but have different functions.
Any depreciation areas that are transferred gross have to be active in the target asset (see below).

Matching Depreciation Areas when the Cross-System Depreciation Area is Not Used
If you have not defined an appropriate cross-system depreciation area (an asterisk is entered in the transfer variant), the system determines the amount that is
capitalized in the individual depreciation areas in the target asset as follows:
Depreciation area exists on both assets
The receiving asset has a depreciation area with the same key as a depreciation area in the sending asset: Then the system transfers the values according
to the transfer method specified in the transfer variant for this valuation method for this company code relationship type.
Depreciation area only on target asset
If a depreciation area exists on the target asset that does not exist on the sending asset or it is deactivated there, the system does not transfer any values
for this depreciation area. However, the depreciation area can adopt the transfer acquisition from a different depreciation area. Prerequisite for this is that
The depreciation area in the target asset has to have been defined as a dependent area in Customizing, meaning that it is defined to adopt values
automatically from another depreciation area (see Features at Chart of Depreciation Level).
The depreciation area that automatically supplies values to the dependent area has to have received the asset transfer using the net method.
Depreciation area only on sending asset
If a net depreciation area on the sending asset that is to be transfer posted does not exist on the receiving asset or it is deactivated there, the system does
perform the transfer posting, but it does not transfer the values for this area (retirement due to scrapping). Any depreciation areas that are transferred using
the gross method have to exist in both the sending and the receiving asset; otherwise the system rejects the posting.

Integration
If you make use of cross-system depreciation areas, you have to create cross-system depreciation areas explicitly for all depreciation areas that are transferred.
This applies even if you only actually need the cross-system depreciation area for one depreciation area, and all other local depreciation areas (with identical
functions) have the same keys.
Assign the necessary local depreciation areas to the cross-system depreciation areas for all charts of depreciation you use. To do so, you have to temporarily
change the chart of depreciation when customizing cross-system depreciation areas.
Defining cross-system depreciation areas affects the transfer of values only. Cross-system depreciation areas have no influence on the creation of depreciation
areas on the target asset. Instead, the creation of depreciation areas on the target asset is controlled by the Customizing settings under Determine Depreciation
Areas in the Asset Class.

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