Carrying Out the Depreciation Run 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Fixed Assets ® Periodic Processing ® Depreciation Run ® Execute

    Transaction Code

    AFAB, SM37

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Company code

    1000

    Fiscal year

    2001

    Posting period

    1

    Planned posting run

    Select

    List assets

    Select

    Test run

    Select

  3. Choose .

    4. A dialog box with the message: Online processing is limited to 1000 assets appears.

  4. Choose Yes.

    5. If another user has already carried out the depreciation run for period 1 or further periods, you will receive a message telling you the next period that can be posted.

    Confirm the message with .

    Change your entry for the posting period to that period and run the program again.

  5. The program log should tell you that the test run was successfully completed.

    6. The list is organized according to account groups and business areas. It displays planned depreciation, posted depreciation and depreciation to be posted in seperate columns for each asset.

    Choose .

  6. To carry out a production run, start the program again, but remove the test run option.

    7. However, if other users also want to carry out the depreciation run, we recommend that you do not carry out a production run.

  7. Choose Program ® Execute in background.
  8. Enter the following data:
    9.

    Field

    Data

    Output device

    Your printer

    New spool-request

    Select

  9. Choose .
  10. Confirm the dialog box with .
  11. In the Start Time dialog box choose Immediate and .

    12. The system tells you that the background job was scheduled for programm RABUCH00.

  12. To check if your job is ready, choose System ® Services ® Jobs ® Job-Overview.
  13. Choose Execute.

    14. You receive an overview of the jobs running under your name today. Normally you will only see the job for the depreciation run. The status is either released or active or finished.

    To change the status, select until the job has the status finished.

    The job could run several hours, depending on how much data has to be processed and how busy the system is. Therefore you might want to interrupt the job for awhile until the job has run.

  14. Choose until the overview tree appears.