Specify the following control information, per depreciation area, for the charts of depreciation created for an asset class.

When you maintain an asset class, the system displays every depreciation area of the specified chart of depreciation. By deactivating depreciation areas, you can limit the management of asset values to the depreciation areas you need in your enterprise. For example, you can deactivate the depreciation areas in a particular asset class that deal with investment support measures, if they are irrelevant for the assets in this class.

Once you have created asset master records for an asset class, you should not deactivate depreciation areas.

Along with deactivation at the asset class level, it is also possible to deactivate depreciation areas for individual assets directly in the asset master record.

In order to guarantee uniform depreciation terms for the asset class, specify the depreciation terms here.

For calculating using replacement values, specify an index series. However, there are prerequisites for calculating with index values. You must have provided for using revaluation when you defined the depreciation area involved; and you must have used a depreciation key that allows you to depreciate from replacement values.

You must specify the screen layout for every active depreciation area in the chart of depreciation entered in the asset class. The screen layout determines the field selection, the required fields, and the maintenance level for the depreciation terms (for example, the depreciation key).

In the detail display of the depreciation area, you can specify the following control indicators that are typical for certain asset types:

• Activation of amount check for individually managed low-value assets

• Activation of the quantity and amount-related check for collectively managed low-value assets

• Allowing the management of negative values. This may be required for assets under construction, for instance, or for investment support managed as a negative asset.

• Maximum/minimum useful life allowed