Starting FA use during fiscal year - can't post depreciation in current FY

[Former Member]

Our company is transferring assets posted to a G/L account into the FA module. These are the first assets to be added to our FA module.

I have run transactions AJAB and AJRW to set the FA fiscal year to 2008, and had no errors on either transaction, but I am still unable to post depreciation to this fiscal year. (I can post the G/L transfers correctly using ABZON.)

The depreciation error is "You can only post in new year after closing the previous year" and I'm supposed to post something in the last period of the previous year. Since these assets were depreciated by manual G/L entries, I don't have anything to post for the previous year.

Can someone offer suggestions on how to troubleshoot this problem? Thanks!

Julie Carson

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Whas there an error when you run AJAB?

With the transaction OAAQ - Entire Company Code you can see the actual status.

perhaps you can have a look to with se16 to the table TABA what is in there

[NathanGenez]

Markus is right. You have to look at the config tables to confirm when depreciation was last run. Since this is completely new data (am I right?) in a fresh company code, you may have to adjust the table manually.

-nathan

[Former Member]

Nathan - thanks for the info. This is completely new FA data, although the company code has existed in our system since we went live in December 2005.

I checked the TABA table for our company and there are no entries in there for any fiscal year, as expected. It appears I need to input a "dummy" 2007 document into this table to allow postings in 2008. Is this correct, and if so, how do I do that?

Thanks again!

Julie

Paul - no errors running AJAB, and OAAQ showed this company code as closed through 2007.

[Former Member]

Hi Julie,

Was asset accounting implemented (perhaps some little test, depreciation) some years ago?

When there was some years no depreciation it is possible that you have to implement a note.

There is an other tables with date's I think T093...... but I don't have a system at the moment

You can found it by doing an search on this forum with TABA. These tables have relations

Paul

[NathanGenez]

no no no. not table TABA. You most likely need to review the settings for the last depreciation run in T093D ("D" for depreciation). What is its value?

[NathanGenez]

note 26073 is a similar situation. Basically, a customer implements the company code (technically) but never loads data in it. So the fields are initialized with a FY value that is no longer appropriate once the company is functionally implemented. Does that make sense?

[Former Member]

Nathan - the values for depreciation area 01 are all zeroes or blanks.

I did some further searching on TABA and found someone with a similar situation in the thread Posting period of "Asset depriciation run". I'm now testing a change to the take-over date as suggested by Paul; when I post test asset data according to the current take-over date (12/31/2004) I can perform a depreciation run on that asset back in that timeframe. I'll post another note once testing is done.

Thanks for the quick responses, all!

Julie

[MarkusBredel]

Hi Julie,

you can execute a depreciation run in a new year first when the last period of the prior year has been posted by the depreciation run.

So you can post period 1/2009 with AFAB first after at least one run has been executed for 12/2008.

Regards,

Markus