Organizational Elements and Structures 

Purpose

In addition to providing for the management of assets and their values, asset accounting should offer an organizational structure for assets that reflects the organizational structure of the enterprise. For this reason, the Asset Accounting (FI-AA) component uses the various SAP organizational units. An asset is clearly assigned to these organizational units at any given point in time.

In addition, you need to classify assets according to various accounting criteria (such as depreciation methods). This classification assists in management-accounting-oriented tasks, and in the summarization of asset values in the general ledger.