NBV negative in Area 11 & Area 12

[Former Member]

HI Guys,

we have few assets from legacy system which are depreciated beyond their acquisition value and as a result NBV is negative for Area 11 AMT and for Area 12 ACE. I n the config the definition of dep.areas only allow positive values, I can change the values allowed to "all values" but this will also change the definition of dep.areas.and system also gives warning message,Is it ok to change the dep areas to all values allowed or it wil have some effect on book area also ??what are the consquences if I change the dep areas to accamodate negative assets.Thanks

Regards

Shaun

[former_member205041]

Hi Shaun,

The consequence of allowing negative values is that you can post evereything. Therefore SAP don not recoment to allow negative valeus for depr. aea 01 expect of AUC's. Generally, negative values should always be allowed for assets under

construction. You should therefore make this setting at asset class level (Transaction OAYZ).

It is not important if the values are positiv at the end. If the values are negativ at one time, the error message rises.

So if the valeus are really negative:

1) Avoid negative values

2) Allow negative values

ad 1) Reverse and post in another sequence

ad 2) In OADB or in depreciation area (XNEGA)

Regards Bernhard