on 02-08-2007 3:09 PM
Hi,
We made some repair costs to our building, and we decided to capitalize the repair costs to value of the building. Also we decided that repair works incresed/prolonged useful life of this building. We want that NBV and capitalised repair costs would depreciate during the remaining + prolonged periods, i.e.
Initialy useful life was 30 years, after 20 years when we made repair it was 10 years remaining, and we decided that repair prolongs useful life additional 5 years, so in total 15 years.
How to adjust remaining useful life in order to claculate depraciation for the rest period plus additional period smoothly? Because system recalculates depreciation of previous periods and posts positive values and than negative, but we want calculate smoothly for the whole rest depreciation period with negative depr. values.
Please help!
Maybe I have described not so clear my problem. Because it is realy important for us I try to describe more detail:
According to our internal accounting principles of fixed assets, when
we made essential subsequent acquisition, e.g. we made repair works of
the roof of our building; we have to add those costs to initial
acquisition cost of the building, and to prolong useful life of the
building. And depreciation calculation must be calculated in this way:
Initial acquisition cost 1.000.000 monetary units (MU);
Initial useful life 40 years;
Monthly depreciation was: 1.000.000/40/12 = 2.083 MU;
After 20 years we made subsequent acquisition amounting to 200.000 MU
and prolonged useful life additionally 10 years.
So in our accounting books planned monthly depreciation after
subsequent acquisition must be as follows:
(500.000 + 200.000) / 30 / 12 = <b>1.944</b> MU,
500.000 MU net book value at subsequent acquisition day = 1.000.000 /
20
30 years = remaining 20 years + prolonged useful life 10 years
But the system calculates in this way:
Recalculates depreciation of past 20 years and posts difference with
positive depreciation value to current year planned depreciation:
1.000.000 / 40 / 12 - 1.000.000 / 50 / 12 = 2.083 - 1.667 = 417 MU,
417 * 20 * 12 = 100.000 MU
And only after that in planned future fiscal years system posts
negative depreciation. For example we made subsequent acquisition in
December of 2006:
Period Depreciaiton, MU
2006/12 +100.000
2007/01 -2.222
2007/02 -2.222
-2.222
2036/12 -2.222
Posting like above are completely inconsistent with our internal
accounting principles. We need to avoid positive depreciation postings
at all.
We need postings as follows:
Period Depreciaiton, MU
2006/12 -1.944
2007/01 -1.944
2007/02 -1.944
-1.944
2036/12 -1.944
How to configure depreciation of subsequent acquisitions and prolonging
of useful life according to our needs?
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Hi Marcus ,
Dep recalculated for the past periods / years will be posted in the current open periods. The system will not post the difference of the past yrs to the remaining useful life...as far I know.
Cheers
Kartik
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Hi,
Good morning and greetings,
Please go through the following SAP OSS Note
Note 46456 - Subsequent acquisition and production costs
Please reward points if found useful
Thanking you
With kindest regards
Ramesh Padmanabhan
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Hi Andreas,
But it does not solve my problem, because Smoothing functionality distributes changed depreciation costs equally over the periods within one fiscal year, but I want to distribute depreciation over the remaining useful life.
I tried to make repeat posting run, but planned monthly depreciation still the same.
My problem is that system calculates positive depreciation values for the current fiscal year and negative values for the next fiscal years. And we don't want positive depreciation postings at all.
We make monthly reporting, so we want equal monthly depreciation costs over the remaining useful life.
Hi Marius,
After you have updated your <b>APC value</b> and have changed the <b>depreciation key</b> to reflect the new remaining useful life, use transaction code <b>AFAR</b> to recalculate your depreciation specifying the Fiscal Year you want the recalculation to commence from. You can do this first in <b>Test Mode</b> and check "<b>List Assets</b>" so that you can review what the system would be posting before excuting in Production mode.
I hope the above helps.
Do not forget to award the points please.
Regards,
Jacob
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