New Asset Accounting

• Features in New Asset Accounting

• Advantages in New Asset Accounting
• Technical changes to the Table
• Configuration changes
• Changes and deleted functions
• New BAPIs
• Technical clearing account
• Migration procedure
• SAP Notes for more information

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Features in New Asset Accounting
1. Using new AA is mandatory
2. ACDOCA now includes fields like Dep Area, Transaction type Asset value
date and Asset number
3. FI-AA reconciliation (ABST2)is abolished
4. Asset balance (AJAB) carry forward with the GL balances
5. Depreciation posting program is simplified and performance improved
6. Depreciation posting is made per Asset
7. Each depreciation area must be assigned to a ledger grp
8. Multiple depreciation areas can post in real time( each accounting
principle can have its own ledger grp)
9. Delta depreciation postings are no longer needed (only one depreciation
area per accounting principle)

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Features in New Asset Accounting
10. Periodic posting (ASKBN) is now obsolete
11. Assignment of posting indicators to depreciation areas simplified
12. For each parallel currency in FI, a corresponding depreciation must
exist
13. Smoothing of depreciation over remaining periods is now obsolete
14. New Asset APC posting logic introduced. Separate for each
accounting principle
15. Settlement of AUC at depreciation area level
16. New posting logic in AA requires Technical clearing account for Assets
acquisition posting
17. Postings are divided into Operation view and valuation view

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Features in New Asset Accounting

18. Both multiple valuation approaches are possible: Ledger approach

and Account approach. But a mixture of two is not supported
(Ledger with accounts approach)
19. Legacy upload GL account is part of Configuration
20. Legacy upload document type is part of configuration
21. Technical clearing account is part of configuration

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 Advantages in New Asset Accounting
• Instant Access to Correct Up-to-Date Values
• When a change is made to an asset, its planned depreciation (used to post actual
depreciation) is immediately updated, and all reports show up-to date values.
• Single Source of Truth
• FI and Asset Reconciliation is by design
• Simplification of Posting Logic
• New transactions and accounts have been introduced that allow you to post
independently to individual depreciation areas, accounting principles, or ledger
groups, if required.
• Transparency
• A separate line item is produced for each asset posting, including the acquisition and
retirement values, the depreciation P&L charge, and the accumulated depreciation,
which allows full visibility in FI.
• No Redundancy of Data
• New Asset Accounting no longer requires the use of delta depreciation areas in
addition to normal depreciation areas.
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Advantages in New Asset Accounting

• Smart Migration
• Compatibility views in SAP S/4 HANA have the same name as previous tables to allow
custom reports when migrating from SAP to S/4 HANA and certain program to
continue as earlier.
• Easy reporting structure
• Because of Universal general reporting is easy to fetch the data
• Smooth Period end closing

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Technical Changes to the Tables

aa

ANEK

ANEP BKPF

ANEA ACDOCA

ANLP FAAT_DOC_IT

FAAT_PLAN_VALUES
ANLC
FAAT_YDDA
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Configuration changes

• Depreciation area with accounting principles

• Technical clearing account at account determination level
• Setting depreciation for Quantity update in case of collective low value Assets
• Define alternative document type for ledger postings
• For every additional currency type defined on the company code a corresponding
depreciation area needs to be set up
• Define revenue distribution for fixed Asset retirement
• In new Asset Accounting, it is not possible and also not necessary to restrict
transaction types to depreciation areas.
• Smoothing is no more available
• Post NBV instead of Gain/Loss

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Configuration changes

• Unilateral Assets
• Depending on the legal requirements, it may be necessary to manage a fixed
asset in one accounting principle (such as local valuation) as an asset, but in a
different accounting principle (for example, IFRS) not to manage it as an asset,
but post the costs directly to profit and loss instead.

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Changes and deleted functions
• You enter post-capitalization both gross and net in the same transaction
(transaction ABNAL). The system always calculates the depreciation values,
meaning in the standard system it assumes that you are entering gross
values.
• A revaluation is always posted accounting principle-specific.
• The Accounting Principle field in transaction ABAWL is therefore a required
entry field.
• With a partial retirement it is no longer possible to adjust the retirement
amount manually, for example for cost-accounting areas.
• Instead you must perform an adjustment posting in an extra step for the
cost-accounting area.
• Errors with individual assets do not necessarily need to be corrected before
period-end closing; period-end closing can still be performed.
• You have to make sure that all assets are corrected by the end of the year
only so that depreciation can be posted completely.
Changes and deleted functions
• Insurance Values
• Until now there were two ways to map insurable values in the system:
1. Defining specific information for insuring the complex fixed asset in the asset master record
2. Managing insurance values in a dedicated depreciation area.
• In SAP S/4HANA only the second option
• The leasing opening entry from the asset master record is not supported in
SAP S/4HANA.
• It is no longer necessary (or possible) to restrict the transaction types to
individual depreciation areas.
• The user exit APCF_DIFFERENT_AMOUNTS_GET is no longer supported.
• The reload program for archiving RAARCH03 is no longer supported.
• Archived documents of Asset Accounting can only be written but not
reloaded.
New BAPIs
Business Object Functional Module
Asset Down Payment BAPI_ASSET_DOWNPAYMENT_CHECK
BAPI_ASSET_DOWNPAYMENT_POST
Asset Investment Support BAPI_ASSET_INV_SUPPORT_CHECK,
BAPI_ASSET_INV_SUPPORT_POST
Assets: Revaluation BAPI_ASSET_REVALUATION_CHECK,
BAPI_ASSET_REVALUATION_POST
Assets: Subsequent Costs and Revenues BAPI_ASSET_SUB_COST_REV_CHECK,
BAPI_ASSET_SUB_COST_REV_POST

Assets: Transfer Postings BAPI_ASSET_TRANSFER_CHECK,

BAPI_ASSET_TRANSFER_POST

Assets: Depreciation BAPI_ASSET_VALUE_ADJUST_CHECK,

BAPI_ASSET_VALUE_ADJUST_POST
Assets: Write-Up BAPI_ASSET_WRITEUP_CHECK,
BAPI_ASSET_WRITEUP_POST
Technical Clearing Account
• Purpose
To post multiple ledgers at the same time it is necessary to split the postings into operational and
valuated document
• It is a Reconciliation account

Operation l View Valuation view

Document valid in all Accounting System generates a separate document
principles and valid for a given accounting principle
System generates ledge group System generates ledger group specific
independent document document for each accounting principle

Ledger grp Vendor invoice posting Asset Posting

All Ledgers Technical clearing a/c Dr
Vendor Cr
IFRS Asset Dr
Technical clearing a/c Cr
Local GAAP Asset Dr
Technical clearing a/c Cr
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Ledger Approach
Because we’ve left the Ledger Group field blank when posting, all ledger
groups were posted to, producing a separate document for each accounting
principle/ledger group.

Simple Nonintegrated Local GAAP Posting

Simple Nonintegrated IFRS Posting 14

Account Approach
A separate range of accounts has been set up for the second accounting principle, named Group Accounting with a Ledger
Group of A1, but in the same ledger. The accounts are similar but two digits shorter.

Simple Nonintegrated Local GAAP Posting

Simple Nonintegrated Group Accounting Posting

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Sequence of the Migration steps
1. Create prerequisites for the use of new Asset
2. Installation of SAP Simple Finance Add-on
3. Set up customizing for new Asset Accounting (Request)
4. Migrate the COD (Request)
5. Additional customizing in case this is missing in step 3 (Request)
6. Check prerequisites for Activating new Asset Accounting
7. Activate the customizing switch (Request) – Asset Accounting (New) is active
8. Migration data to SAP Simple Finance Add-on
Note:
• Pre-check of prerequisites for Asset Accounting (New) is very important before starting
installing of the Add-on
• Periodic APC postings are deleted in Simple finance, you must have completed periodic
postings in the system before installing the add-on
• Postings are not possible (including in FI-AA) after installation of add-on until migration
has been finished.
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Migration of legacy data upload process
• Earlier
• Through AS91 Asset Master data and Asset balances are uploading
• This results Balance update in Asset table
• OASV Transaction code is using to update Asset balance by GL wise
• Document type is an manual input
• This leads mismatching between GL and Asset Balance (ABST2)
• Legacy upload through LSMW
• Batch input, Business Object Method (BAPI) and Direct input recording
• In New Asset Accounting
• Asset Master data will created by using AS91 Transaction code
• Transaction balances will update through ABLDT
• This results Asset and GL initial balance upload
• Document type is part of configuration
• Legacy data during the FY will upload through T code AB01
• AUC/WIP Balance will upload through ABLDT_OI by line item wise.
• If wrong transfer values were posted, you must reverse the journal entry and then
recreate it.
• ABST2 is obsolete
• Legacy upload through LSMW
• Only direct object method supports – BAPI (BAPI_FIXEDASSET_OVRTAKE_CREATE)
• Legacy data transfer using Microsoft Excel Transaction AS100 is still available
• This corresponds with choosing method CREATEINCLVALUES of business object BUS1022 in transaction
LSMW.
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Transaction changes
The following transactions are no longer available:
• ABST, ABST2, ABSTL , ABUB, AW01_AFAR,ABF1 and ABF1L, AJRW,OASV,AB02,ASKB and
ASKBN,ABB1,ABMW,ABCO
• Programs
The following programs are no longer available:
RAALTD01, RAALTD11, RAALTD11_UNICODE
RAPERB2000, RAPOST2000
RAABST01, RAABST02, FAA_GL_RECON
RAJAWE00
SAP Notes

SAP Note Note Description

2270387 S4TWL - Asset Accounting: Changes to Data Structure

2270388 S4TWL - Asset Accounting: Parallel valuation and journal entry

Ledger approach and Asset Accounting (new): Alternative fiscal year variant for parallel
2220152 valuation

2332030 Specification for the Conversion/Migration in Accounting

2257555 S4TWL - Asset Accounting: Business Functions from FI-AA and FI-GL

2137314 Joint Venture Accounting with SAP Simple Finance powered by SAP HANA