AUC asset settlement

Question

Dear All,
After settling the AUC asset to normal asset, values are not flowing into the group asset number which is tagged to the normal asset master data whereas under normal asset, values are flowing accurately.
Kindly give your suggestions over this.
Regards
Anuj

Answer 1

Hi Anuj,
What i feel is group asset is only for reporting IT Dep Values.
and also please also check the following settings for group assets:-
Asset grouping, depreciation etc) as per Indian IT act from SAP system
Country Version India comes with a report for calculating depreciation on
asset blocks (asset groups) as required by law for calculating a company's
taxable income.
Country Template
The country template for India comes with the following settings:
  - Chart of depreciation
  - Depreciation keys as per the income tax laws
Year-End Income Tax Depreciation Report
You use this report to calculate the depreciation on your assets and any
capital gains or losses according to the Income Tax Act.
To access the report, from the SAP Easy Access screen, choose *Accounting
(r) Financial Accounting (r) Fixed Assets (r) *Information
System* (r) *Reports
on Asset Accounting* (r) Taxes (r) Country Specifics (r) India
(r) *Year-End
IT Depreciation Report*.
Prerequisites
You can use the Customizing settings delivered by SAP in order to configure
Asset Accounting (FI-AA) with respect to the income tax depreciation area
and so that the report works correctly. For more information about what
settings to make, see the Release Note structure under FI (r) *Release Notes
from Country Version India Add-On* (r) *Customizing Settings for Income Tax
Act*. Given below:
Customization Settings relevant to Income Tax Act Description
In India, depreciation on assets for the purpose of computation of net
income as per the Income Tax (IT) Act 1961 is calculated over a block of
assets instead of individual assets as allowed under the Companies Act 1956
Asset acquisitions and retirements are managed over the block level. The IT
Act prescribes certain rates of depreciation to be used under the Written
Down Value (WDV) method over these asset blocks to compute depreciation.
The following are the customization settings that may  be followed in the
R/3 system in order to manage your assets in the income tax depreciation
area.
*Customization settings *
1. Copy the standard chart of depreciation 0IN as provided by SAP and create
your own chart of depreciation.
2. Use the depreciation area 15 for the purpose of management of assets
under the IT Act. Make it statistical in nature. (Reference Transaction
Code: OADB). Do not check the box negative net book value.
3. Specify that the Income Tax depreciation area takes over the APC from the
book but not make it identical (Reference Transaction Code: OABC).
4. Create an asset class for the purpose of income tax blocks. This asset
class will be used to create only group assets. (Reference Transaction Code
OAOA)
5. Specify that the depreciation area for income tax can be managed only for
group assets. (Reference Transaction Code: OAYM). This would mean that
depreciation for this depreciation area would be computed only at group
asset level.
6. Specify that the asset class defined in (b) above will be used for
creating group assets only. (Reference Transaction Code: OAAX)
7. Two period control methods (IT and NL) have been defined in the system
for determination of start or the end of depreciation calculation at the
time of a fixed asset acquisition or retirement. You may use these period
control methods while creating the depreciation keys for the purpose of IT
depreciation.
Calendar assignments have been made for the above mentioned period control
methods in order to reflect valuation requirements as per the Income Tax
Act  (Transaction Code: OAVH). You may create your own period control
methods depending on the fiscal year variant you use. The period control
methods supplied are based on the fiscal year variant V3.
8. Depreciation Keys:
The following depreciation keys have been created in the system. They
correspond to the income tax block that are prescribed under Indian tax
laws. They are as below:
*Depreciation Keys : *
1.  IN1 - Tax Depreciation -   5% - India
2.  IN2 - Tax Depreciation - 10% - India
3.  IN3 - Tax Depreciation -  15% - India
4.  IN4 - Tax Depreciation -  20% - India
5.  IN5 - Tax Depreciation -  25% - India
6.  IN6 - Tax Depreciation -  40% - India
7.  IN7 - Tax Depreciation -  50% - India
8.  IN8 - Tax Depreciation -  60% - India
9.  IN9 - Tax Depreciation - 100% - India
The features of the keys supplied are as below:
Depreciation type: ordinary depreciation
Class: declining balance depreciation
Depreciation method: stated percentage
Base value: remaining book value with proportional value adjustments
Percentage rate: will correspond to the depreciation rate of an IT block
Period controls:
Acquisition: IT
Acquisition in following year: IT
Retirement: NL
Transfer: NL
9. For the asset classes corresponding to the IT blocks, default the
corresponding depreciation key for the depreciation area created for income
tax. (Reference Transaction Code: OAYZ). Use an infinite useful life e.g.
999.
10. Create a screen layout rule for depreciation areas (Reference
Transaction Code : AO21) in which the field group asset is mandatory.
11. While maintaining the other asset classes for the income tax
depreciation area, use the screen layout rule as in (j). (Reference
Transaction Code: OAYZ).
12. Create group assets using the asset class defined in (b), where each
group asset master record corresponds to an IT block. You will be able to
view only the income tax depreciation area for the group assets.
13. Maintain the following posting variants for the transaction types
normally used for asset retirements: 200, 210, 250, 260 (Reference
Transaction Code: OAYS) in the income tax depreciation area:
Treatment of retirement: balance revenue
14. Create individual asset master records, where for the income tax
depreciation area, you have to enter a group asset. Choose the group asset
depending to which IT block your asset belongs.
Note :
1. For individual assets, the system will not show any depreciation in the
income tax depreciation area.
2. For the group assets, the system will not display the book depreciation
area.
3. At the time of takeover of old asset data, create the group assets first
and specify the opening gross value and accumulated depreciation for the
income tax depreciation area. Then while creating the individual assets, you
have to specify the opening gross value and accumulated depreciation for the
book depreciation area only.
Features
Selection
Enter the asset numbers of your group assets and other selection data as
required.
Output
The system:
  - Calculates the
depreciation on
each asset block
  - Calculates any capital gains or
losses
If you deselect Test Run, the system also:
  - Posts the depreciation to the income tax depreciation area
  - Stores the capital gains amounts from the report in a table for your
  future reference.
Calculation of Depreciation
Use
The program calculates the depreciation on each asset block according to the
Income Tax Act.
Features
Depreciation of Asset Blocks
The Income Tax Act requires you to depreciate all assets in blocks (in the
SAP System, called asset groups). In other words, you do not calculate the
depreciation on each individual asset. Instead, an asset group has its own
net book value.
The asset block's net book value increases when you add assets to it and
falls when you sell or retire assets. You also calculate depreciation on the
block's net book value. The depreciation rate depends on the asset block and
is prescribed by the government. Since an asset block may exist for a very
long time, as you add new assets to it, it has an unrestricted useful life.
For example, assume your company has four trucks. At the beginning of fiscal
20X1, the trucks have a total net book value, for income tax purposes, of
INR 300,000. At the end of the year, with no acquisitions and no
retirements, the net book value has not changed. The total depreciation on
all of the trucks is 10% of INR 300,000, or INR 30,000.
The total net book value of the block at the beginning of 20X2 is therefore
INR 270,000.
New Assets Held for Less Than 180 Days
If you purchase an asset less than 180 days before the end of the fiscal
year, you are only entitled to depreciate it at half of the normal rate of
depreciation. To continue the example, on 1 June 20X2 you sell a truck for
IN 30,000. On 31 March the following year, instead of posting INR 3,000
depreciation, you can only post half of that, INR 1,500.
The system handles this requirement by taking half the acquisition cost and
calculating depreciation on that.
Asset Retirements
When you retire an asset, you are not entitled to calculate any depreciation
on it in that fiscal year at all.
Calculation of Capital Gains or Losses on Sales of Assets
Use
The system automatically calculates any gains of losses on sales of assets
according to the Income Tax Act. Any gains or losses have to be taxed.
Features
If you sell an individual asset from a block, the value of the asset block
goes down by the sale price. For example, assume that you have an asset
block of trucks. On 1 April 20X2, the trucks' total net book value is INR
270,000. On 1 February 20X3 you sell one of the trucks for INR 50,000. At
the end of the year, the net book value before depreciation is therefore INR
220,000.
Capital Gains
If the sale of an asset causes the value of the asset block to fall below
zero, the amount below zero constitutes a capital gain under the terms of
the Income Tax Act. For example, on 1 April 20X3 the trucks' total net book
value is INR 198,000. On 1 December you sell a truck for INR 210,000. On 31
March 20X4 the system determines the asset block's net book value as:
INR 198,000 u2013 INR 210,000 = u2013 INR 12,000
This makes a capital gain of INR 12,000, which the system stores in a table
for your future reference.
The following year, the net book value of the asset block is set to zero.
Capital Losses
If you sell all the assets in a block, but the block still has a net book
value, the system posts this value as a capital loss. For example, if you
have a block with only one asset valued at INR 12,000, and you sell it for
INR 10,000, the net book value of the block is still INR 2,000, even though
there are no assets in it.
The system stores the capital loss amount in a table for your future
reference.
Regards,
Raghavendra.M
SAP-Practice
Edited by: Raghavendra Muchukota on Jan 23, 2009 11:31 AM