SAP B1 Fixed Assets query

Good Morning,
Could someone please comment on whether the SAP B1 fixed assets add-on would accommodate the following two issues, which one of our Accountants has requested?
(1)     We are introducing a restoration provision policy that creates a restoration asset and could increase/ decrease the book value of this asset on a yearly basis.  I am looking into the practical issues of booking this and whether the SAP fixed asset register can cope with regular changes in the value of a restoration asset (both up/down).
(2)     Adding in terminal/residual values for existing assets.
Thankyou,
regards
Kelly

Hi Kelly
This response may be a little late, but I hope it helps. 
The SAP Fixed Assets add-on is very thin, not very deep, and very European (both vernacular and accounting).  For some US clients, it may not work because of shortcomings with GAAP and/or Federal Tax compliance.  I have known this for several years. 
SAP asked me to develop a full-featured Fixed Assets addon several years ago.  I have been in the Fixed Assets commercial software business for over 30 years, and developed the solution now offered by Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains).  Our SAP Business One add-on product is now available for both Versions 2007 and 8.8.  It is written using the SAP Business One SDK, so it integrates fully with SAP Business One and has the same look-and-feel.
From a function-feature perspective, it is desinged to exceed the accounting functionality of mid-market products such as FAS (from Sage), QBE, and even Dynamics GP.  It also provides considerable capabilities for managing Assets (Maintenance Contracts and Service Requets, Lease Accounting and Tracking, Physical Inventory, Custodial Control, Component Assets, Property Tax, etc.). 
The respondant in February was correct - with the SAP addon you can do what you asked, but you have to jump through a hoop to do it.  With our B1-FAM addon, you not only can do the things you need, and do them in a very straightforward manner, but will have choices reagrding the best way to do them.  Plus, you wil have a comprehensive solution that works as it is supposed to in the US.
Feel free to vist our website at www.B1FixedAssets.com.
Best of luck
Joe Lewis

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