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7.4.23 Specify the Document Type for Posting Depreciation .... 389
7.4.24 Transaction Types .......................................................... 391
7.4.25 Conguring the Asset History Sheet .............................. 396
7.4.26 Dening Validations for Asset Master Data ................... 399
7.4.27 Substitutions for Asset Master Data .............................. 402
7.5 Asset Transaction Processing ....................................................... 404
7.5.1 Create a New Asset Master Record ............................... 404
7.5.2 Post Values to an Asset Using External Acquisition ........ 408
7.5.3 Working with Asset Explorer ......................................... 411
7.5.4 Post Transfers to Other Assets ....................................... 415
7.5.5 Post Retirements with Scrapping ................................... 418
7.5.6 Post Depreciation Run .................................................. 420
7.6 Current Asset Valuation .............................................................. 422
7.6.1 Inventory Valuation ...................................................... 422
7.6.2 Accounts Receivables Valuation .................................... 425
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This chapter explains the mysteries of Asset Accounting, which many FI
consultants struggle to cope with. Asset Accounting is very different from the
other FI subledgers, and good process and conguration knowledge in this
area is a valuable asset.
7 Asset Accounting
The objective of this chapter is to explain the functionality of the Asset Accounting
(from this point on referred to as AA) submodule (often referred to as xed assets).
AA functionality is designed for the management and supervision of an organiza-
tion’s xed assets and is a GL subledger. AA is sometimes considered a specialist
topic because many SAP professionals do not understand the processes within
this submodule from a company or a statutory point of view. For this reason, this
chapter provides a lot of information to help explain this area to beginning users,
including the following topics:
E The link between the different organizational elements within AA
E Conguration of asset master records
E Conguration of depreciation methods and postings to the GL in line with statu-
tory requirements
E Asset acquisitions, transfers, and retirement transactions processing
E Asset depreciation processing
E Substitutions and validations in asset master records
E Current asset valuation
This chapter’s order is important because it follows the IMG, which is organized
by type of activity. Following this order (which is also the order in which steps
are processed) ensures that you complete the conguration in the order required
by SAP ERP to take into account the dependencies between the different objects.
This also ensures that less experienced users do not miss any steps or get confused
with the different dependencies.
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The chapter begins by presenting the main concepts of AA. We then look at the
key points that should form part of your workshops with your business partners
when creating a design for your AA solution in your business blueprint. After that,
we take a detailed look at conguring AA.
Create Asset
Master (AA)
Cost Center
Asset Reports
(AA) Business Areas
Vendor
Master Asset
Acquisitions External/AuC Plant/location
Vendor
Invoice (AA)
Outgoing
Payment Asset Depreciation
(FI) Additions Charge
(AA)
Customer/
AP CASH scrapping
X X
Asset Asset AR SALES
Transfers Retirements X X
(AA) (AA)
Customer
Within/outside Customer Customer Payment
company code Master Invoice (FI)
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You should also ensure that no country-specic settings are hard-coded when
you congure your system. Where appropriate, the SAP system delivers many
country-specic settings that can be copied to reduce the effort required in
implementations.
7.1.2 Integration
AA is fully integrated with other components, as indicated in Figure 7.1. At all
times, postings to assets are integrated with the GL, so the value of your assets is
reected correctly in your balance sheet.
Company
Division
Shipping Loading
Plant
Point Point
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Note
SAP supplies a number of charts of depreciation relating to different countries, which you
can copy; however, you can’t use them directly. Be sure to make a copy of the appropriate
chart of depreciation for your country because the chart contains all of your statutory
requirements and provides you with a good base from which to start.
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with similar AA requirements use the same chart of depreciation, and the same
applies for industry-specic company codes.
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E Assignment to cost center and prot center: We have already mentioned that
GL postings are integrated by asset class. If you think about the account assign-
ment object, you will agree that an asset may belong to a specic department.
For this reason, the nancial transactions related to an asset must also be assigned
to the department it belongs to, which could be a cost center entered on its
master record. An asset can only be assigned to one cost center at a time. This
assignment enables the following:
E Assignment of all costs (depreciation and interest charges) related to the asset
to the correct cost center
E Planning for future depreciation or interest for the asset
E Assignment of gain or loss from the sale of the asset to the correct cost
center
You can assign xed assets to a cost center from a specic point in time, and if
the assignment changes, the system is smart enough to distribute the deprecia-
tion or interest amount to the subsequent cost center. Prot center assignment
is achieved through the cost center–prot center assignment in the cost center
master record.
Note
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Note
You can use an asset main number to represent a xed asset if your requirements are
simple.
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their requirements from an AA point of view. The answers to these questions will
help you build an AA model according to the exact requirements of your business
partners. Examples of the questions could include:
E How many different types of assets do you have?
This will help you determine the number of asset classes you need in the system
to represent their current structure within the SAP system.
E Do you want to represent different types of assets with individual balance
sheet accounts in your nancial statements?
This will determine if you need to create separate account determinations for
every type of asset and also for the same type of assets with different useful lives,
or if you can assign the same account determination to an asset, for example,
furniture and xtures, with different useful lives. This means you don’t have
to create a separate account determination for this asset with different useful
lives. Most companies prefer to use one account determination for each type
of asset and use the AA reports to view more details about asset types with dif-
ferent useful lives.
E Do you want your different asset types to have unique number ranges?
This will help you to determine if you need to add more number ranges so they
can be assigned to different types of assets using their respective asset classes.
Most of the time, companies want to assign a different number range to differ-
ent types of assets so that they can be easily identied.
E How many different types of depreciation calculations are required?
This will help you determine how many different depreciation areas are required
within your chart of depreciation and which of these will post to the GL and
which will post, for example, only to the Controlling component (CO) for cost
accounting purposes. Remember that the settings required for straight-line
depreciation as well as for declining methods and so on are also connected to
the depreciation area through the depreciation key. Settings such as when to
start or stop depreciating assets (when they are acquired, transferred in or out,
or retired) are also linked to the depreciation key. These settings are also deter-
mined at this stage so that the same can be reected when the conguration of
depreciation keys are done.
We have now spent some time explaining the concepts of AA to provide you with a
solid understanding of the key elements involved. AA is sometimes seen as a special-
ist subject that will start making sense as we begin our conguration activities.
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AS91, 551 B
Assessment, 166, 190, 470, 473
Asset Accounting (AA), 349, 605 Balance sheet, 355
Building Blocks, 351 Accounts, 383
Business Model, 355 Bank, 222
New General Ledger, 386 Bank master record, 225
New GL integration, 191 Base method, 374
Asset Assignment, 353 Define, 374
Asset Balance, 554 Base value, 378
Asset Classes, 355, 365, 370 Basic controlling area settings, 437
Define, 365 Batch Input Session, 569
Asset Explorer, 411, 605 Business Transactions, 257
Asset History Sheet, 396, 605 Billing, 282
Groups, 396, 397 Account determination, 501
Position Allocation, 398 Billing document, 283
Version, 397 Release to accounting, 304
Asset Master Record, 404, 405, 406 Bill of exchange payable, 234
Create, 404 Bill of exchange receivable, 233
Asset Number Range, 364 Bill To, 285
Intervals, 364 Customer master, 285
Assets Blocked, 244, 324
Legacy asset migration, 551 BSX, 493
Asset Transaction, 404 Build, 641
Asset Transfer Date, 549 Business Analysis, 637
Data Migration, 549 Business area
Assign Accounts to Account Symbol, 270 Definition, 42
Assign Bank Accounts to Transaction Types, Business Intelligence (BI), 600
268 Business Roles, 643
Assign External Transaction Types to Posting Business transaction
Rules, 274 Document splitting, 182
Assign GL accounts, 383 Business transformation, 636
Assign number range
Customer account group, 301
Assign Report Group, 624 C
Assign the valuation areas and accounting
principles, 582 Calculating Interest, 345
Assign the Valuation Areas to the Accounting Cash Journal, 257
Principles, 585 Cash Journal Postings, 264
Attribute, 482 Change Management, 634
Automatic account assignments Change message control, 126
Maintain, 468 Change Report Group, 625
Automatic Account Determination, 526 Change Report Layout, 618
Automatic credit control, 319 Characteristics, 598
Automatic payment program, 248 Chart of accounts, 42
AW01N, 411 Company code assignment, 89
Configuration, 64, 66
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J
Maintain Number Range Intervals
Journal entry Customer master, 300
Screen, 86 Maintain Terms of Payment, 515
Manual conguration log, 643
Manual outgoing payment, 239
K MASS, 402
Master data
KA01, 447 Operational, 285
KA06, 447 Static, 285
KANK, 439 Matchcode, 203
KCH1, 80 Customer, 288
KDH1, 187 Material masters
KE52, 162 Migration, 546
Key Figure, 482 Materials Management
Kick-off meeting, 636 Account Determination, 490
KO01, 460 Menu bar, 33
KOFI Messages
Account Determination, 503 Customization, 126
KOT2, 456 Migration service
KP06, 483 New GL, 548
KS01, 453 Minimum amounts
KSH1, 75 Dunning procedure, 333
KSH2, 450 MMPV, 578
Period-end timetable, 578
Movement Type
L Account Determination, 493
MR11, 580
Last Dunned, 335 Period-end timetable, 580
Leading ledger, 154 Multicash, 267
Ledger, 617 Multilevel method
New GL, 146 Define, 377
Ledger group, 159 Multilevel Methods, 377
Ledger-specic lines table, 149 Multiple Ledger Approach, 630
Legacy System Migration Workbench Multiple ledgers, 38
(LSMW), 544, 555 MWAS, 136
Cross Application, 572 MWST, 136
Data migration, 543 MWVS, 136
Legacy systems
Data migration, 540
LIFO, 424
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N OBC5, 97
OBD4, 98
Netting, 295 Object Attributes, 558
New GL, 25 OBLC, 133
New Totals Table, 149 OBU1, 120
Non-leading ledger, 186 OBV1, 343
Nonstock invoice, 228 OBXR, 233, 306
Number range, 216 OBY6, 82
Customer, 299, 300 OBYC, 493
Document type, 112 OBYR, 233, 306
GL master record, 111 OBYZ, 134
OK17, 479
OKB2, 445
O OKB3, 446
OKB9, 468, 512
OA77, 362 OKE5, 81
OA79, 396 OKEQ, 440
OAAQ, 594 OKKP, 76, 438
OAAR, 594 Open item
OAB1, 359 Customer invoices, 311
OABC, 368 Migraton, 547
OABD, 370 Management, 105
OACS, 402 Open Item Transfer, 547
OACV, 400 Data Migration, 547
OAOA, 365 Open new period, 579
OAP1, 357 Operational
OASV, 554 Master data, 285
OAV9, 396 Order number range
OAYZ, 370 Assignment, 458
OB01 Order-to-cash, 281
Risk category, 322 Process, 281
OB02, 323 Order type, 456
OB13, 65 OSS
OB37, 71 Online SAP Support, 51
OB41, 115 Outgoing payment, 201
OB46, 336 Output determination procedure
OB52, 578, 580 Customer master, 290
Period-end timetable, 578 Customer master records, 290
OB53, 90 OVA8, 325
OB58, 129 Overpayment
OB82, 337 Customer, 316
OB83, 343 OX02, 69
OBA1, 585, 586 OX06, 438
OBA7, 107, 112, 259 OX15, 68
OBBG, 138
OBBP, 64
OBC4, 92
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