Freeze the partial depreciation for asset

Question

Dear Expert,
We have special scenario for asset depreciation. In China, the assetu2019s retirement need waiting for government inspection & approval. The requester to do the physical scrap when we got the approval, and then the asset accountant will retire this asset in SAP system.
In the period of waiting of approval, the asset needs to stop the depreciation. We can shutdown or change depky 0000 for depreciation freeze, but these methods will freeze all NBV which mean the entire asset has not depreciation, but we think freeze the partial NBV and the remainder NBV still has depreciation in future.
For example,
Asset A - 01/31/2009     GAV  $100   AD $50     NBV $50
This asset needs the partial scrap for $20 on 02/01/2009.
Asset A - 02/01/2009     GAV $100   AD $50     NBV $30 * 20$ will be froze.
Just need to your help,  What method can carry out this result in SAP?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
You can use the cutoff value key and assign it in the depreciation key and in turn assign it in asset master,in your case the cutofff key would be defined as 20%. (if you want you can create a new dep key and assign it to the specific asset)
doing this will make sure that after NBV of the asset is $20, depreciation will not be carried out.
hope this clarifies youe query.
Regards,
J