Moving assets or portions of assets that are currently depreciating

Question

When moving entire asset values or only portions of assets from one depreciating asset to another depreciating asset in the same asset class, does the depreciation recalculate automatically on each of the assets used in the transaction with the next periodic depreciation run (t-code AFAB) ?

Answer 1

Hi,
yes, the transfer is a closed process. In this process the sending and the receiving asset have to be consistent. That means for example: If the transfered amount is depreciated on the sending asset you can not depreciate it again on the receiving asset.
The following settings are relevant for this:
1) Flag "Adopting dep. start date" in the depr. key
If you make a transfers within a company code, then you have to use special transaction types (e.g. 300, 310) in order to guaranteed, that the values at the receiving asset match to the values to the sending asset. Acc. to note 327088 for transaction type 300 and 310 you have to set the flag "Adopting dep.start date".
F1 Help:
Indicator: Transfer adopting dep. start date
Set this indicator, if you want to adopt the historical depreciation
start date and capitalization date from the retiring asset when you
perform intercompany asset transfers or intracompany transfers.
2) Specify Transfer of Fields
CU: FI-AA:
-> Transactions
-> Intercompany Asset Transfers
-> Automatic Intercompany Asset Transfers
-> Define Transfer Variants
-> Specify Transfer of Fields (for New Asset in Target CoCd)
3) Period control of the depr key
4) Of course also the depreciaiton start date
regards Bernhard