Advantage/ disadvantage Asset sub number & asset super number

Hello,
I do not really understand what are the advantages from the asset sub number compare to the asset super number.
The only point for me is that a sub-number asset can inherit some informations from the principal asset.
For me there is no difference for example for the depreciation.
Can someone help me?
Thank you very much
Cécile

Hi Cécile,
The purpose of the Asset Super number is to group together assets that are not necessarily related to each other the same way as sub assets are normally related to its parent asset.  As an example if you have power grid with several distribution centers and even plants you would not define that as sub assets to a parent asset called power grid.  However you might want to be able to look at them together and that is when you would create a super asset called power grid 1 and classify all the assets belonging to the grid as such's.
Hope this clarifies this a bit better.
cheers,
Gudmundur

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