Best Practice for Impairment Of Fixed Assets

Dear friends,
I have seen lots of thread about impairment of fixed assets. However, lots of it have different solutions and some resulted in need to use different depreciation area too.
Since IFRS is so common to all countries nowadays, I believe SAP should have a standard solution for treatment of impairment for fixed assets. Basically, it should affect only depreciation area 01 so that asset history sheet will show all movement of fixed assets in one sheet, show reduced the depreciation calculated IMMEDIATELY (not only in new fiscal year when using unplanned depreciation), and also be able to reverse that impairment accordingly subjected to limitation of earlier impairment value and what taken out via reduced depreciation.
What is the BEST standard practice that all consultants can use as long as that country follow IFRS? Other packages already have a fixed solution but in SAP, we are still disputing which is the right one.
Thanks,
Stephen Siew

Hi Stephen,
How you set it up is based on your bussiness requirements, (paralel ledgers, currencies,...) In the most cases you have more depreciation area's some are creating posting other ones are statistical.
I think in the most cases you will have a minimum from 3 depreciation areas
01 Local books Real-on that create postins
02 Tax book Based on the local tax rules
10 IFRS Create postings or not
When you use IFRS you have to think about the transaction AR29N - Post Revaluation and New Valuation (see the help there).
With this transaction you can upload (new) values from am excel file Search on this forum with AR29N, Marcus give some tips about it
You can use idexes to for doing the revaluation

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Thanks very much.

Originally Posted by jcw_av
We're getting ready to do our first system-wide update of agents to fix a critical bug. Our summer vacation is just ending, and teachers and students will be coming back very soon and turning on our Windows 7 computers for the first time in many weeks, although they won't all be turned on the same day. When they are turned on they will be attempting to get various updates, in particular Windows updates, but also Flash Player and Adobe Reader. I need to update the agents as quickly as possible, but I'm concerned about the possibility of the agent update conflicting with another update, especially Windows updates. Isn't it possible that Windows Update could restart a computer while the agent update is happening (or the other way around), leaving the machine in an unstable or unusable state? What are the best practices for dealing with this? I considered the possibility of deploying the agent to a dynamic workstation group whose members all have a certain file or files that indicate that they have already received the latest Windows updates. However, I can't see how to create a dynamic group based on such criteria.
So far I have only updated a few devices at a time using "Deploy System Updates to Selected Devices in the Management Zone". When those updates are done I cancel that deployment because that's the only option I can find that does anything. If you can offer general advice for a better strategy of updating agents I'd appreciate that. Specifically, how would you push an agent update to several hundred computers that will be turned on sometime over the next two weeks?
Thanks very much.
To be honest, you have to work around your other deploys, etc. The ZCM agent isn't "aware" of other deploys going on. For example, ZPM doesn't care that you're doing Bundles at the same time (you'll get errors in the logs about the fact that only one MSI can run at a time, for example). ZPM usually recovers and picks up where it left off.
Bundles on the other hand, with System Update, are not so forgiving. Especially if you have the agents prior to 11.2.4 MU1 (cache corruption errors).
We usually:
a) Halt all software rollouts/patching as best we can
b) Our software deploys (bundles) are on event: user login Typically the system update is on Device Refresh, OR scheduled time, and are device associated.
IF possible, I'd suggest that you use WOL, system update and voila.
Or, if no WOL available, then tell your users to leave their pc turned on (doesn't have to be logged in), on X night, and setup your system updates for that night, with the auto-reboot enabled. That worked well
But otherwise the 3 components of ZCM (Bundles, ZPM, System Update) don't know/care about each other, AFAIK.
--Kevin

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