Index series

Hi,
1 I notice that the index is going up trend by years. May I know what is the reason?
example 1980 10 but in 2000 is going up to 15.
2 How does it impact the insurance valuation and replacement value when the index is getting higher? meaning asset worth more and more each year? I thought asset is getting cheaper by the years?
Hope can get explanation.
Thanks

My company intends to uses these Index Series to record the Handy Whitman Index or the Consumer Price Index for the respect years for our industry. These will go up year over year due to inflation factor. The system uses this to calculate the replacement cost of the asset as new in the unfortunate event that it needs to be replaced though an insurance claim. this allows the system to calculate the Insured Value of an asset. The asset does loose value due to depreciation which is a completely different matter. The Insurance Value will increase in value solely for the purpose of valuating the asset in the event that it needs to be replaced as a result of an insurance claim.
Hope this helps!
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Payment cycle
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The total lease payments to be made for the asset
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Implementation Considerations
General Tips
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Assign a leasing type to the asset master records for leased assets.
Maintain the information and conditions of the leasing agreement in the master records of the leased assets. Specify an interest rate for calculating the present value and determine whether the lease payments should be made at the beginning of the payment period or at the end of the payment period.
Post the acquisition of a leased asset with the display transaction for asset master data.
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The "acquisition of a leased asset" is considered for our purposes to be the entry of the leased asset in the FI-AA System. This does not necessarily mean that the leased asset must be capitalized. You can enter a leased asset simply to manage purely statistical data. You handle the leased asset as a master record, with no values in the book or tax depreciation areas.
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You have received a new leased asset (goods receipt).
You need to change the way bookkeeping is handled for a leased asset due to a change in the conditions of the lease.
You need to post a leased asset to a new asset master record due to a transfer.
Process Flow
Before posting the acquisition of the leased asset, you must determine the bookkeeping method to be used, either:
Capitalization of the leased asset to fixed assets, with the present value of the future lease payments and depreciation of the present value (capital lease)
Statistical management of the leased asset (no capitalization), and direct posting of the lease payments as rental expense in the profit and loss statement (operating lease)
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4f/71fd71448011d189f00000e81ddfac/frameset.htm
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