EA-FIN: Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

Asset Accounting (FI-AA) is a part of the Financials Extension (EA-FIN) business function.

Technical Data

Technical name of the business function	EA-FIN
Type of business function	Enterprise Extension
Documentation based on release	SAP ERP 6.0
SAP software component	EA-FIN
SAP application component	FI-AA
Business Intelligence content	SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3
Enterprise Services	Not relevant
Portal content	Not relevant
Additional content available in other SAP applications	Not relevant
Business function requiring activation in addition	Not relevant

Use

This business function provides you with new functions for calculating depreciation.

Integration

The depreciation calculation program (DCP) is a back-end solution that does not require any special configuration. In addition, SAP provides Business Add-Ins (BAdI) that you can use to modify the calculation of values. (These BAdIs are similar to the user exits available in depreciation calculation up to now).

Prerequisites

If you activate Enterprise Extension EA-FIN, then the depreciation calculation program that was in the system is replaced with the new program.

Features

The functions of the new depreciation calculation program include the following:

Period-Based Calculation

The system uses the asset value date and the period control group of the transaction type group to determine the calculation period. The system assigns each transaction to a calculation period.

Then the system creates period intervals from the calculation periods that were determined. Based on these intervals, the system calculates the depreciation.
Time-Dependent Depreciation Terms

You can make time-dependent changes to depreciation terms in the asset master data. Changes to the depreciation terms become effective on the key date that you specified for the given depreciation area. A midyear change to depreciation terms causes the system to set up new calculation period intervals.

Time-dependent depreciation terms include: useful life, depreciation key, scrap value, scrap value percentage, and variable depreciation portion.
Midyear, Period-Dependent Changeover

With the new depreciation calculation, you have new options for changing over the depreciation method (for example, changing over from declining-balance to straight-line depreciation). Instead of using the old annual changeover, you can specify an automatic changeover of the depreciation method that takes place midyear. The UMPER field in table ANLB is used for this function.

To use this midyear changeover, use the FAA_DC_CUSTOMER BAdI (method DEFINE_USE_OF_MAX_PERIODS). Set the CB_USE_MAX_PERIODS parameter to the value X.

More Information

For more information on configuration and the process flow for depreciation, see SAP Library under Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Accounting Financial Accounting Asset Accounting (FI-AA) Depreciation End of the navigation path .

For more information about configuration and Customizing for Asset Accounting , see the SAP Service Marketplace at:

service.sap.com/releasenotes SAPSolutions SAP ERP SAP ERP 2005 ECC 6.0 English in Chapter 4.7 FI-AA Asset Accounting . This information is also available in the release notes in your system.
service.sap.com/erp SAPERP SAP ERPFinancials SAP FinancialAccounting Asset Accounting Media Library .

See also:

SAP Note 965032: Differences Between Old and New Depreciation

This SAP Note explains the following:
- The depreciation calculation is now period-based rather than transaction-based.
- For customers who have already gone live with Asset Accounting, the changed logic of the calculation can cause rounding differences. You can display these differences by executing a test run of report RAAFAR00.
SAP Note 1025126: Correct Error Messages from New Depreciation Calculation