Change useful life of existing asset - already posted depreciation

[Former Member]

Hi!

My customer wants to change useful life from 5 to 3 years on a specified asset class.

When trying to make this change an error message occur saying that

"You have initiated a recalculation of asset values for fiscal year 2008. However, fiscal year 2008 is still open is Asset Accounting, but not in Financial Accounting.

Due to this inconsistency between the General Ledger and the the subsidiary ledger, processing is terminated.

Close fiscal year 2008 in Asset Accounting as well"

Is it impossible to do this change?.

Or is the problem solved only by close fiscal year 2008 in asset account ing as well? I donät want the system to recalculate depreciation for closed periods, only to make larger depreciation for the future periods so that the assets are fully depreciated after 3 years.

Many thanks in advance!

[Former Member]

Hi

If AS02 has not allowed you to do, check if a simple BDC or LSMW can help to perform these mass changes in the asset class level

Check in sandbox

why is the FI still open?

reg

suresh

[Former Member]

I have already made the change in IMG on asset class, but thos only effects the future assets. To make the changes even on existing assets I have to make changes on useful life in as02 on every asset (which is approx 20 assets for the current asset class). I have no problem doing this on assets capitalized during 2009 but when trying to change useful life for assets capitalized before 2009 I get the error message above. I don't want to do any recalculation on 2008.

Please help.