Chaning business area in asset master

Hi gurus,
Can we change business area in asset master? is there any customizing or transaction?

Hi,
If you want to use the "Specify Time-Independent Management of Organiz. Units, in asset accounting under Master Data tab, please read the following SAP Notes:
SAP Note 193233 - Changing organizational unit in asset master record
SAP Note 162247 - Error AU133 or additional line item with transfer
SAP Note 210278 - RW022 when changing organizational units
Furthermore:
Purpose:
If we want to use Time-independent management of organization units, the system manages the rganizational units 'business area' and 'cost center' (and thereby 'profit center') as not time dependent in the asset master records in this company code.
Advantages:
Any change to these organizational units during master data maintenance then automatically generates a transfer posting document.
Disadvantages:
If the indicator is not set, you have to create a new asset master record (only in case of business area change), and manually transfer the entire asset, when the business area changes.
Points to be considered:
1. This method will not change the asset number. However, it will not keep track of the transfers.
2. If you set this indicator, and then change these organizational units in asset master data maintenance, the system replaces the business area and cost center (and profit center) in all existing time intervals by the new assignments.
3. After that, it is no longer possible to report on these organizational units for past time periods in Asset Accounting! This applies even if you later remove the indicator!
4. In short we will lost track of any type of past reporting on business area/Cost center.
Recommendation:
You should only change the standard setting when ALL of the following apply:
1. You do not need a history of the time-dependent assignments of an asset to a business area or cost center.
2. You create business area or profit center balance sheets.
3. You expect to make frequent changes to the assignments to business areas or cost centers.
Thanks
Javed

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We have an asset created in the system and we assigned a business area to that asset.
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The system is not allowing to change the business area when we tried to that in "AS02".
Can somebody please help me in guiding about the following issues:-
1) Can the business area be changed once assigned and postings has beeen carried out with the same business area?
2) If yes, then please help how?
3) Will the business area change will be effective from the current date or it will affect the previous records too?
In spro we have one settings which is Time-Independent Management of Organize.if i will use what is disadvantage and advantage.
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Dear Sai,
In relation specifically to changing the Business area I have reviewed the documentation and it is not possible to change the Business area via As02 once created.
Please could you review the document below which explains the situation clearly .
Changing Organizational Units Relevant to the Balance Sheet
There are two ways of changing the asset#s assignment to organizational units that are relevant to the balance sheet (that is, changing assignment to a business area, or changing the cost center, which in turn affects the profit center).
The first method: changing the assignment using the master data transaction However, you can only use this method if the Business area and Cost center master data fields are not managed as time-dependent. You can set the business area and cost to time-independent in Customizing for Asset Accounting. Choose Master Data. When you change one of these organizational units in the asset master record, the system automatically creates a transfer document with the
acquisition and the retirement, as well as a master data change document. The system uses the system date as the standard default posting date for the automatically created document. However, you can also change this posting date using a substitution (refer to Validation and Substitution).
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Visit:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/4f/71ec4c448011d189f00000e81ddfac/frameset.htm
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http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/5f/1fac7c4aee11d189740000e8322d00/frameset.htm
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