Clarifications in Asset Accounting

Dear Experts,
Please clarify below questions.
1) What is the difference between Depreciation Area and Depreciation Key?
2) What is the importance of Recalculate value button in Asset Accounting?
3) Suppose I have 1000 assets, if I want to run depreciation only for 200 assets how can I do that?
4) If suppose I have 5 Depreciation areas, I am able to see the book depreciation values only, where I
can see the other depreciation values? If we cant see for which purpose we are using other
depreciation areas?
5) Vendor and Customer balances get update regularly or once in a month or year?
6) Where we have to create number ranges either in Production or Development Environment?
7) How can we transfer GLs from one environment to another?
Full points will be assigned as way of thanks
Regards,
Vineela

Hi Krishna,
Thanks for your reply,But still I need some more clarifications please respond........
2) What is the importance of Recalculate value button in Asset Accounting?-
(A)recalculates depr when asset parameters are changed
Where it will be there as it(recalculate button) is not there in AFAB
3) Suppose I have 1000 assets, if I want to run depreciation only for 200 assets how can I do that?
(A)select those 200 and run depreciation
Here Assets Selection option is there only in test run not there in update run.
4) If suppose I have 5 Depreciation areas, I am able to see the book depreciation values only, where I can see the other depreciation values? If we cant see for which purpose we are using other depreciation areas? (A)use AW01N- you cans ee all dep areas
In AW01N only book depreciation values is displayed,how can I see other depreciation area values
Regards
Vineela
Edited by: Vineela Siri on Apr 9, 2008 7:22 AM

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