Transfers (SAP Library - Investment Management (IM))

Transfers

Use

Transfers between investment measures are generally needed if you have somehow charged the wrong investment measure. You must distinguish between transfers of debits from the current fiscal year, and debits from previous years.

Features

Transfers in the Acquisition Year

You can post transfers in the acquisition year (that is, in the fiscal year in which the original debit was posted) directly to the order or WBS element (Actual Postings ® Manual Reposting of Costs or Repost Line Items). The system retains the original cost element during this process. From the point of view of asset accounting, the system treats transfers of this kind like a debit reversal on the asset under construction, when a later periodic settlement is carried out.

For transfers, the system also calculates separate amounts in each depreciation area for the settlement to the asset under construction. This calculation is made according to the capitalization structure. Any special depreciation calculated on the asset under construction is automatically reversed. You have to manually transfer or reverse any investment support posted to the asset under construction, as you do for a debit reversal.

Transfer of Data from Prior Years

In order for them to be displayed correctly in the asset history sheet, you have to post transfers of debits from prior years with a different transaction type than transfers of current-year debits. In addition, it is necessary to calculate and transfer any proportional values for special depreciation, and so on. Therefore, a transfer of data from prior years, like a retirement, is only possible as a settlement. The values for the retiring transfer can also be determined and posted as they are for retirement (refer to Retirements ).

Note

If you post a transfer of acquisitions from prior years as if it was a transfer of current acquisitions, the system does not reject the posting, as long as the total of the acquisitions is not negative. Nothing is incorrectly posted that will affect the income account, since a reversal of current-year acquisitions would change the special depreciation in the current year by the same amount as would have been posted for a transfer of prior-year acquisitions. Only the assignment to a column in the asset history sheet is not strictly correct.

Transfer of Prior-Year Acquisitions to Other Receivers

A transfer from fixed assets to current assets cannot be represented directly in the Asset Accounting (FI-AA) component at the present time. This type of transfer must be posted as a retirement. In the same way, you should also post the transfer of investment measures to other receivers as a retirement.