Changing useful life of an asset

Hi All,
Client wants to change the asset's useful life from 4 years to 3 years. Also previous depreciations should not get affected due to this. The new recalculated value of the asset should be spread over the remaining useful life and depreciation amount should also be recalculated accordingly. Do we have such functionality in SAP version ECC4.6?? or we need to post the depreciation manually going forward?? I have tried smoothing method but this is also not helping me out.
Please advice if we can do something in it.
Many Thanks,
Parul

Hello Parul
Sorry but this functionality is only available as of release 6.0 if you have the
new depreciation engine activated. Note 965032 will provide you more details. In
particular section 4. c) Managing time-dependent depreciation parameters:
With the new depreciation calculation, you now have the option to
change depreciation terms during the fiscal year. This means that
the changed parameters are included in the calculation always
from the period for which the period is also valid.
The following depreciation terms can be maintained   time-dependently on the   fixed asset:
- Depreciation Keys
- Useful life
- scrap value/scrap value percentage rate
- variable depreciation portion
Regards
Javier

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We change the useful life of an asset during the middle of the year. The deprecaiton calculation is not effecting correctly for the remaining useful life of an asset.
We are using stright line method of depreciaion. I will appreciate if any post some tips what is wrong .
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Acquisition date: 1/1/08
Useful life: 3 years
NBV 12/31/08: 200,000
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New life: 2 years, starting 7/1/2009
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Monthly Depreciation expense between 8/31/09-12/31/09: $16,667 / month
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NBV at 6/30/09 divided by remaining life as of the date of the change: (150,000/6mos) $25,000
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By default, any change in depreciation parameters will recalculate depreciation from the beginning. If you want to change depreciation terms on different phases, you may need to introduce a depreciation key which changes percentage in multi-level method.
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Asset which is under Asset Class Support system-B700. Here every thing is ok but the problem in USE FULL LIFE which is come by default. It must be 4 instead of 5.   So can any body help me out from this how to change the Useful life in that Asset class. In that Asset Class we have the morethan 200 Assets. It was happend in Prdocution system so now the problem is where i can change the useful life for the asset class either in DEV or PRD.
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Hi Gurus,
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Hello Parul
Sorry but this functionality is only available as of release 6.0 if you have the
new depreciation engine activated. Note 965032 will provide you more details. In
particular section 4. c) Managing time-dependent depreciation parameters:
With the new depreciation calculation, you now have the option to
change depreciation terms during the fiscal year. This means that
the changed parameters are included in the calculation always
from the period for which the period is also valid.
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Change the useful life of an asset

Hi everyone,
I'm using Oracle 11i Asset module. currently I have an asset whose useful life is 4 years. But we realise that this asset can only last for 3.5 years (3 years and 6 months).
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Is there any standard report which gives the following information --
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Hi
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Problem in useful life of the asset?

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I don't know what and where it is going wrong so need your suggestion please:
We have created one new asset class and trying to check dep. in testing server but system is calculated dep. with useful life as 10 years only for all the assets I have created.
In OAYZ, I have just given the dep. key and the fields of useful life and period is blank for all the dep. areas. Also, tried with useful life 5 but result is same.
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I have checked it by creating some of other assets as well with different useful lives but the result is same.
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If the depreciation is based on 10 years even if you have entered useful life 5 years then it means depreciation key is not configured as dep based on useful life.
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