API to add member Assets to a Group Asset

Hello Everyone,
We've a requirement to attach all the assets that we receive in a excel to a group that we have already created. Since the count of assets is more, is there any API which could possibly do this. Any help on this would highly appreciated.
Thanks
El

Hi EI,
See if the below note helps:
- Suggestions for Converting into the Group Asset Structure in 11i and/or R12 [ID 456064.1]
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Assignment of Asset Number to Group Asset

Hi All,
For our client they are using Group Asset for the calculation of Income Tax Depreciation (Depreciation Aea:15), actually he is having two types of Land 1. Free hold land and 2. normal Land. They created total 5 asset through(AS01) like 10000, 10001,10002,10003 and 10004. and a Group asset through (AS21) 110000 and assigned all these assets in one group asset but they want to create two Group assets 1. 10000 & 10001 2. 10002,10003 & 10004 as another Group asset for income tax depreciation purpose. Can somebody give me the suggetion how to create 2 group assets.
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Hi Raghavendran,
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Regards,
R.K

Differentiating the asset class for group assets

Hi,
I want to create group assets in AS21. For creating group assets I want to create a seperate asset class. I could not find any option of differentiating the asset class for group assets in transaction OAOA (i.e., Define Asset Class)
How we can identify that an asset class can be used only for group assets and not for individual assets.

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HI
A group asset is represented in the system by a separate master record. The structure of this master record corresponds to the structure of the normal asset master record. You can determine the structure of this master record using screen layout control, just as you do for normal master records. Just the same as a normal asset, a group asset can have any number of sub-numbers. In this way it is possible, for example, to collect all the acquisitions for one year in a single sub-number master record at the level of the group asset.
There is a separate master data transaction for creating group assets (Asset ® Create ® Group asset). This transaction corresponds to the transaction for creating normal assets. However, there are certain special considerations to keep in mind for master data maintenance of group assets:
Group assets can only be deleted when all the assets belonging to them have been marked for deletion.
Group assets can only manage depreciation areas that have been specially marked. You mark them using an indicator in the company code specific specifications for the depreciation area (FI-AA Customizing: Specify depreciation areas for group assets).
Group assets have to be assigned to an asset class, just as normal assets do. You use an indicator in the asset class to specify that the class can be used only for group assets.
Assignment of an Asset to a Group Asset
You can assign an asset to a group asset by specific depreciation areas. For this purpose, there is a special field in the asset master record (in the detail display of each depreciation area). You enter the number of the group asset in this field. Once this entry is made, the system calculates and posts the depreciation for this depreciation area only at the level of the group asset. In this way, you can also assign one asset to different group assets in different depreciation areas.
Regards,
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Please tell me the group assets configuration

my client wants , add the assets to groups assets, and how many assets are there for a particular group, but i am unable to search that . i dont know group assets concept. please tell me the configuration.

Hi anji,
the system calculates depreciation at the level of individual assets. Certain types of calculation needs or tax requirements (such as in the U.S.A.) make it necessary, however, to calculate depreciation at a higher level. For this purpose, you can group assets in the FI-AA system together into so-called group assets. You can group assets together per depreciation area to form group assets.
It is basically possible to use all asset classes for creating group assets. you need to set aside particular asset classes for use in conjunction with group assets. These asset classes are then reserved solely for group assets, and are not allowed to be used for normal assets.
A group asset is represented in the system by a separate master record.
FI-AA: Master Data -> Group Assets
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_45b/helpdata/en/4f/71dfff448011d189f00000e81ddfac/content.htm
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Asset A/c'g- group assets

Dear frds,
Pls explain me the **only Group Asset Configuration - GL A/c's - Asset Creation- ** steps and also the fields what we have to give in the steps. I will assign points to U. Need each & every step & field.pls watch the following and give me.Pls dont give the links.
1.Copy Ref CODor Dep Area.
2. Delete other than Book Depn & Spl Tax dep.
3. Asset Class( A/c det,screen layouts,no range).
4. What GL a/cs should create?
5.Assgning the GL a/c's which fields we have to give.
6.Determine Dep area in Asset class - which check box I have to select.
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12. AS21- which fields i have to give.
13. wher I have to link the Normal Asset to the group Asset ?
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Thanks in advance.
Rajan.

follow these steps,
1. copy chart of dep: t.code : fc08
2. delete depriciatin areas
3. assign to company code; oaob
4.specify account determination, create screen layout rules
5.define number ranges; as08
6.define asset class ; oaoa
here you have to give no ranges, account determination for all asset classes.
7. determinine depriciation areas in asset classess; oayz
now you have one idea about your asset configuration. now before further, create your gl accounts for each asset depriciation, gl for asset loss, gl for asset profit on sales.
8. now you have to assign accounts for postings; a090
goto each account determinatin and assgin relavent gl accounts in all cloums
9. specify document type for posting depriciation
10. specify rounding figures of net asst book value/depriciation; oayo
11. define screen layouit for asset master data, depriciation areas, define base methods, multilevel methods etc.,
12.you have to maintain period control methods for dep run and maintain depriciation keys
13. now you should have one asset, so create one asset maser record; t.code as01, post the purchase transation by f-90
14. now you have to run the depriciation by t.code AFAB
GOTHROUGH AL THESE SETTINGS
before that decide abut your asset classes, create gl a/cs and then start from the first step,
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Link-Group Asset Class, Depreciation Area & Depreciation Key

Dear Experts,
I am new to FI-AA Customization & have a basic query about Group Asset Concept.
I am working on Ecc 6.0 & for Country India.
I want to create Group Asset for calculation of Depreciation as per Income Tax Act. Hence there is just one Depreciation Area (for Group Assets) , but the Depreciation keys are different. E.d IN1, IN2 etc. (Country Version India)
Now the questions are :
1) Do we need to create different Asset Class for different Group Assets or to create just 1 Asset Class for all Group Assets.
E.g. I want to calculate Depreciation As per income Tax Act on Gross Block of Building, Furniture & Fixture, Motor Car, Vehicles etc. So I need to create separate Group Asset Class for each one of above or just to create one Group Asset Class.
2) If we need to create just one Asset Class for all Group Assets; how to maintain a Depreciation Key in OAYZ as there are more than 1 Depreciation Keys?
3) is there any other method / functionality to calculate Depreciation as per income Tax Act or Group Asset is the only functionality?
Thanks & Regards,
Reshma

Dear,
Reshma.
Looking at your Questions let us take explanation for Group Assets :-
1 ) We need to create new different asset class for Group Class in OAOA. Then permit the depreciation area for only Group Asset in OAYM as it is in your current scenario India is Depreciation Area 15 Just select your company code in OAYM and check the Grp Asset field for respective area 15. Then go to OAAX here we have to maintain the assets classes particularly for Group Assets. So check your Group Asset classes for Group Assets. Cerate different Group asset classes for your said requirement.
In these depreciation areas, it is then possible to make an assignment to a group asset. You make this assignment in the specifications for the depreciation area in the asset master record. When you post an acquisition to this kind of asset, the system duplicates the line items from this depreciation area on the given group asset.
2 ) According to me you have to create different depreciation keys for Group Asset classes. Assign the Depreciation keys to your newly created Group Asset Classes in OAYZ and make sure you are deactivating 01 area which is Book Depreciation area.
3 ) As far as I know this is the only functionality available to handle Group Assets. How ever SAP does not have any standard Group Assets functionality. SAP does not supply asset classes to be used solely for group assets. It is we have to determine as per varying Business Process.
I hope this will clear your doubt makes you to understand. Please revert back for further clarification. Welcome you.
Regards,
Pankaj A Bhalerao.
Edited by: pankaj_ab on Feb 3, 2010 8:26 AM

Calculation of Depreciation for Group Asset

Hi Experts,
I am getting a problem while doing depreciation for group asset
Ex: 80,000; Rate 10%
total depreiaiton p.a is Rs 8000/-
as per the Indian standards if it is below 180 days it should take Rs 4000/-, but in my system it is showing Rs 3333.33
my depreciation start date & capitlization date is 01.11.2007.
Regards,
Satya Vani.

Dear,
Reshma.
Looking at your Questions let us take explanation for Group Assets :-
1 ) We need to create new different asset class for Group Class in OAOA. Then permit the depreciation area for only Group Asset in OAYM as it is in your current scenario India is Depreciation Area 15 Just select your company code in OAYM and check the Grp Asset field for respective area 15. Then go to OAAX here we have to maintain the assets classes particularly for Group Assets. So check your Group Asset classes for Group Assets. Cerate different Group asset classes for your said requirement.
In these depreciation areas, it is then possible to make an assignment to a group asset. You make this assignment in the specifications for the depreciation area in the asset master record. When you post an acquisition to this kind of asset, the system duplicates the line items from this depreciation area on the given group asset.
2 ) According to me you have to create different depreciation keys for Group Asset classes. Assign the Depreciation keys to your newly created Group Asset Classes in OAYZ and make sure you are deactivating 01 area which is Book Depreciation area.
3 ) As far as I know this is the only functionality available to handle Group Assets. How ever SAP does not have any standard Group Assets functionality. SAP does not supply asset classes to be used solely for group assets. It is we have to determine as per varying Business Process.
I hope this will clear your doubt makes you to understand. Please revert back for further clarification. Welcome you.
Regards,
Pankaj A Bhalerao.
Edited by: pankaj_ab on Feb 3, 2010 8:26 AM

Issue on migration of tax depreciation balances for group assets

Dear Experts,
My client is using group assets for tax depreciation report India.
The SAP implementation was done in 2006 during the data migration the
client was not clear of the values both individual asset wise and
group asset wise to migrate to tax depreciation area. So the tax
depreciation for some of the assets are migrated with some
(non caluclated) value.
Now the client want to see the tax depreciation group asset wise or if
possible individual asset wise.For this the group asset need to be
created and assigned to each individual asset in the asset master
record.
The fiscal year variant is v3, april to march with 4 quaters June,
Sep, Dec, Mar.
Now when the data migration for the current year come into picture
I can use AS81/AS82 for loading current year opening balance and
accumulated depreciation for all the group of assets as a whole. Or
I can use AS91/AS92 to load balances into tax depreciation of
each asset individually. But I am not sure whether this is correct.
And also what to do with the previous years balances. I am very
confused. Somebody suggest good solution.
When I create a legacy asset or group asset in AS91 and AS81
respectively the fields in the Takeover values screen are grayed
out and do not allow mw to input values. But I am able to enter
values by clicking the button Transactions in the Takeover values
screen and able to enter a value date , transacton type and amount
for tax depreciation area. Here again I am not convinced using 100
transaction type for current year opening balance. I used
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acquisition) for accumulated current year dpereciation upto second
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Need for Group asset

Hi Experts
Any body guide me about group assets we have Building, Plant and machinery,vehicles,computer,furniture&fittings
I need to configure seperate asset class for each asset or I can maintain same asset class for all assets
please guide me,
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Hello,
As a general rule, the system calculates depreciation at the level of individual assets. Certain types of calculation needs or tax requirements (such as in the U.S.A.) make it necessary, however, to calculate depreciation at a higher level. For this purpose, you can group assets in the FI-AA system together into so-called group assets. You can group assets together per depreciation area to form group assets.
Definition: group asset
Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
A combination of a number of assets for the purposes of a common, summarized calculation of depreciation.
A group asset is represented in the SAP System by a separate master
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So it is up to your requirement weather you want to go with Group Asset or not.
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Hi,
I am maintaining group asset for Income Tax Depreciation. All the asset under the same class is consider single asset for Income tax purpose. For eg value of Plant and machinery under Income tax is derived for all asset totaled together after depreciation for the year. Thus P&M is considered single asset for calculating I.T. Depreciation, even though it may contain 100 assets.
For Income tax, for P & M class of asset depreciation for first year is with different rate and for rest years with different rate. Hence I have maintained sub asset for this group asset. Whenever a new asset is purchase, for income tax purpose it is recorded in the newly created sub asset number.
The problem arises in sale of asset. When I am selling any machinery the sale value is deducted from the group value for IT purpose. In this case even though the value of sale is higher than the WDV of the individual asset it is adjusted in total. While configuring this in SAP I am facing following difficulties-
1.     As the rate of depreciation is different for different years I am not able to maintain a single group asset. I have to create a sub asset. This facilitate the right depreciation calculation by different dep rate for purchases in diff year.
2.     But as I am maintaining different Sub asset the sale value cannot exceed the balance of that particular asset, even though the total value in SAP for all the group assets is higher.
3.     I can not allow having negative values. Negative values are not allowed to maintain in IT Records.
Please help to resolve the issue.

Hi,
I am maintaining group asset for Income Tax Depreciation. All the asset under the same class is consider single asset for Income tax purpose. For eg value of Plant and machinery under Income tax is derived for all asset totaled together after depreciation for the year. Thus P&M is considered single asset for calculating I.T. Depreciation, even though it may contain 100 assets.
For Income tax, for P & M class of asset depreciation for first year is with different rate and for rest years with different rate. Hence I have maintained sub asset for this group asset. Whenever a new asset is purchase, for income tax purpose it is recorded in the newly created sub asset number.
The problem arises in sale of asset. When I am selling any machinery the sale value is deducted from the group value for IT purpose. In this case even though the value of sale is higher than the WDV of the individual asset it is adjusted in total. While configuring this in SAP I am facing following difficulties-
1.     As the rate of depreciation is different for different years I am not able to maintain a single group asset. I have to create a sub asset. This facilitate the right depreciation calculation by different dep rate for purchases in diff year.
2.     But as I am maintaining different Sub asset the sale value cannot exceed the balance of that particular asset, even though the total value in SAP for all the group assets is higher.
3.     I can not allow having negative values. Negative values are not allowed to maintain in IT Records.
Please help to resolve the issue.

Account assignment for group asset is different from that in asset

Dear experts,
I have creted one main asset . and i have created group asset. and my main asset class and group asset class are both are different.If i continue that error assets are shoud be craeted .but the depreciation key and usefull life and ordinary depreciation will going and it's showing grey.
My question at the time of assighning the group asset for the particular assets the below error is comming.
Account assignment for group asset is different from that in asset
Message no. AA810
Diagnosis
The account allocation 14000 of the group asset 140000001 0 is different from account allocation 1000 of the asset.
System Response
This error needs to be corrected for balance sheet valuation (usually determined in depreciation area 01). For all other depreciation areas, this is only a warning you should check.
Procedure
Check your entry. When an individual asset has a different account assignment than the group asset, it is not possible to reconcile the individual asset to the group asset in reporting by means of accounts.
kindly help on this issue
regards
venkataswamy

Hi sudhakar
Thanks for your reply
1) for example i have buliding asset class and i have one group asset class.under the building asset account determination i have assighned the gl a/c for both b/s and book deprecitaion
In groups asset class also i have done same things. i have craeted asset under building asset class and created one asset under group assets.
then assighned the group asset to main assets. the error is comming like this Account assignment for group asset is different from that in asset
I have serched in sdn forum and service .sap.com . they are saying you can use same gl a/c for both asset class.for depreciation .i have tried this scenario. still i am getting the same error and same problem.
The most important thing is we are working on ECC 6 versions
sap note 76186.
Kindly help me
Regards
venkataswamy
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Problem in group asset for tax dep
While creating asset master data, indicator for Group Asset is in non - changeable mode for tax depreciation under area 15. When we assign
group asset under Additional Specifications in the box Group Asset,
system is giving message - Group asset does not manage area 15. Message
no. AA809
We need this for calculating Group Depreciation.
All configure settings have been carried out. Detail list is as follows
1.created account determination, screen laylot rules, number range
intervals & asset class for Group Asset.
2.Specify Depreciation Area for Group Assets.
3.Specify Asset Classes for Group Asset (OAAX)
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Pl advice.

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Govind yadav

Group Asset for Asset Master

Hiii gurus
We are uploading data from April ' 07 till now..while uploading data i have entered the closing balances of assets and for group assets..
Now in the month of April & May ' 07 , in Asset master template i forgot to enter Group Asset no. in Asset master data ( AS01 ). And the assets also capitalised in the relevant months.Now i have to give ( Assign ) Group Asset no. in Main Asset , but the field Group Asset in Main Asset is Suppressed.
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Hi,
Try at below path:
Financial Accounting (New)>>Asset Accounting>>Master Data>>Screen Layout>>Define Screen Layout for Asset Master Data.
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Kind Regards,
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The acquisition of group asset in AW01N not correct

Dear Experts,
I have a group asset is A, and there are 3 asset A1, A2, A7. this 3 assets belongs to group asset A.
I buy A1 with acquisition value =10. I see in column CHANGE in tcode AW01N of group asset A, A has acquisition value =10.
After that I transfer from A1 to A2 with amount =2, in column CHANGE of tcode AW01N, A has acquisition value =12. After that I transfer from A1 to A3 with amount =4, in column CHANGE of tcode AW01N, A has acquisition value =14.
3 asset A1, A2, A7 belongs to group asset A. I transfer assets within A, so the acquisition of A would be = 10, but in column CHANGE in tcode AW01N, A has acquisition value =14 in year 2010, but in year 2011 I see A has acquisition value =10. I donu2019t know why?
Please help me to solve for A has acquisition value =10 in year 2010.
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Dear ravikumar,
1. when I transfer the A1 asset with value 10$ to A2 asset for 2$ is it showing the value of A1 asset as 8$.
2. the accounting entries: PK 75 A1 2-
PK 70 A2 2
Additional information:
When I transfer the A1 asset with value 10$ to A2 asset for 2$, in the reports as following:
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