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July 27, 2015 4 minute read

New Asset Accounting EHP7 – Functionality and con guration

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With SAP Enhancement Package 7, a new func onality is available in Asset Accoun ng to manage Parallel Valua ons. The
following document contains informa on about use of this func onality for a new implementa on customer. In OSS Note
1776828 SAP recommends ac va on of New Asset Accoun ng for new customers. To use this solu on, prerequisite is the use
New GL Accoun ng with Ledger Approach. Prior to New Asset Accoun ng, to manage parallel valua ons one had to use delta
deprecia on areas, as only one deprecia on area (01) could post to the General Ledger in real me.

With the new solu on it is now possible to post actual values to different deprecia on areas in real time. There’s no need for
delta pos ngs and delta deprecia on areas. In the following paragraphs I shall a empt to explain the configura on steps
involved with an example of our implementa on project.

Before you actually begin implementa on of New AA, take a stock of Global Se ngs related to General Ledger, par cularly
Ledgers and Currencies. This will help you ascertain the Chart of Deprecia on se ngs required in Asset Accoun ng.

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E.g. if you have two ledgers for your Company Code (leading and non leading) there must be two deprecia on areas that post
in real me.

Note – This is not applicable to Deprecia on areas for Investment Support. Also if there are mul ple currencies there must be
a deprecia on area for each currency. This ensures consistencies between General Ledger and Asset Accoun ng sub ledger.

In our case we had:

Ledgers:
Leading Ledger for Indian GAAP – 0L
Non Leading Ledger for IFRS – NL

Addi onal Currencies:

Group Currency – INR
Hard Currency – EURO

Also we had to implement Investment Support, so addi onal Deprecia on areas were for created for the same. Also had a
separate deprecia on area to Income Tax deprecia on. This is what the final Chart of Deprecia on looked like:

Now if you didn’t have Investment Support in scope, area 51, 59, 71 and 75 wouldn’t be required. Also if Investment Support
accoun ng is not applicable for Accoun ng Principle IFRS, area 71 and 75 wouldn’t be required.

Once this is sorted the rest of configura on se ngs are straight forward:

Business Func ons: Ac vate the following Business Func ons:

Transac on Code – SFW5

ENTERPRISE_EXTENSIONS – EA-FIN
ENTERPRISE_BUSINESS_FUNCTIONS – FIN_AA_PARALLEL_VAL

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This will ac vate a new path in SAP IMG:

Copy the chart of deprecia on as usual and define your deprecia on areas
Assign each deprecia on area to a ledger group.
For Deprecia on area 60, define deprecia on area 01 as Alternate deprecia on area for account determina on

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Specify Area type:

Asset Accoun ng (New)->General Valua on->Deprecia on Areas->Define Deprecia on Areas->Specify Area Type

Specify transfer of APC values:

Asset Accoun ng (New)->General Valua on->Deprecia on Areas->Specify Transfer of APC Values

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Here we define the reference deprecia on area that provides values to other deprecia on areas. Deprecia on areas that don’t post
in real me must takeover APC and deprecia on values from a reference deprecia on area.

Specify Transfer of Deprecia on Terms

Asset Accoun ng (New)->General Valua on->Deprecia on Areas->Specify Transfer of Deprecia on Terms

Deprecia on Area Currencies

Asset Accoun ng (New)->General Valua on->Currencies->Define Deprecia on Areas for Foreign Currencies

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Specify the deprecia on areas’ currency for your company code(s).

Ac vate New Asset Accoun ng

Asset Accoun ng (New)->New Asset Accoun ng: Prepara on and Ac va on->Check Prerequisites for Ac va ng
Asset Accoun ng (New)

Asset Accoun ng (New)->New Asset Accoun ng: Prepara on and Ac va on->Ac vate Asset Accoun ng (New)

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Technical Clearing Account

To enable parallel pos ngs to different ledgers system uses a technical clearing account for Asset acquisi on and Investment
support pos ngs. This is required from a technical purpose and the balance of this account is always zero a er each pos ng.

See an example of integrated pos ng with technical clearing account at Example 1: Acquisi on, Integrated Pos ng – Asset
Accoun ng (FI-AA) (New) – SAP Library.

The technical clearing account must be a reconcilia on account for assets and it can’t be used in account determina on for
Asset Accoun ng (for example, tables T095, T095B, T095P)

Rest of the con guration remains unchanged. You de ne your asset classes, account determination,
depreciation keys etc. as usual.

An example of Acquisition posting (without investment support)

Integrated posting in di erent ledgers:

Area 01 – Ledger 0L-

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Area 60 – Ledger NL

Separate documents are generated for the two postings:

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References:

1. OSS Note 1776828

2. Release Notes for EHP7
3. Various Help.sap.com pages on New Asset Accounting

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July 28, 2015 at 7:40 am

Hi Raghav,

Thanks for sharing nice document presented in Asset Accounting which is very help full for parallel valuations.

Can we use this with out simple nance functionality ? because I heard EHP 7 is mandatory for Simple Finance
with HANA.

Thanks,

Bhasakar.

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Former Member | Post author

July 28, 2015 at 10:00 am

Hi Bhaskar,

Yes we can use this solution without Simple Finance on ECC 6.0 EHP7.

EHP7 is mandatory for Simple Finance but not vice versa, at least as far as this functionality is concerned.

Regards,

Arjun

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Atif Farooq

August 6, 2015 at 7:51 am

Hi Raghav:

Thanks for sharing this useful feature in Ehp7.

Thanks

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October 27, 2015 at 12:46 pm

Very informative

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Farhan Qaiser

May 10, 2016 at 5:28 pm

Hi

Just for information purpose, is there possibility to deactivate the new asset accounting, once it is activated.

Kind regards

Farahan

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Nasir Awan

May 11, 2016 at 10:58 pm

ENTERPRISE_BUSINESS_FUNCTIONS – FIN_AA_PARALLEL_VAL is a irreversible business func on.

Prerequisite to activate  FIN_AA_PARALLEL_VAL is Financials Extension (EA-FIN)

Caution

The Customizing switch that you use to start Customizing for new Asset Accounting is not reversible.

See link below for details

FI-AA, Parallel Valuation – Financial Accounting (FI) – SAP Library

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Ranu Eugene

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September 2, 2016 at 4:42 pm

Hi Arjun,

Nice document and very well explained.

Keep up the good work.

I hope I know you

Regrds

Eugene

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Former Member

September 3, 2016 at 6:17 am

Hi

Is it possible to have di erent scal years for depreciation areas-

Eg:

0L-Leading ledger -Currency-INR-Fiscal year variant -V3-

Depreciation area-01-book depreciation

N1-Non-leading ledger-currency-EUR- scal year variant k4-

depreciation area-31-Group Depreciation

Thanks in advance

joseph david

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Former Member

November 17, 2016 at 3:45 pm

Hi. Thanks for the information.

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I have a question.

How is the process for customers with Classic Asset Accounting and they want activate New Asset Accounting
in EPH7?

Regards.

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Former Member

December 26, 2016 at 11:00 am

Hi All,

Thanks for the information.

Can we activate this functionality in Oracle Data base (HANA Database mandatory ?)

Kindly suggest ?

Rahul S Kulkarni

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Former Member

March 22, 2017 at 7:57 pm

Hi All,

Does anyone know if the new depreciation program FAA_DEPRECIATION_POST can still utilize BADIs for
enhancing the depreciation program?  We have two custom enhancements that worked with EA-FIN activated
in ECC 6.0, but now when we upgraded to S/4 1610 it does not appear that these BADIs are being called.  Any
info on how to customize the new program would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

-Aaron Passer

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Hemanthkumar Chittibomma

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March 25, 2017 at 7:10 am

Hello Arjun,

Well exempli ed document. Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards,

Hemanthkumar 

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Former Member

April 9, 2017 at 6:43 pm

Hello Community,

Very good documentation in deed.

However, I wonder if any of you has a problem similar to mine after activating and customizing the New Asset
Accounting.

In tcode AFABN on my customer´s installation, I DON´T have anymore the box with the options of reason for
posting run. Ex: Planned, Repeat, Restart and Unplanned. This box does not appear in the initial selection
screen of the AFABN and program FAA_DEPRECIATION_POST.

Does anybody has ou had a similar issue ?

I need to run depreciation in REPEAT mode for a certain speci c assets numbers and can´t select that.

Thank you in advance

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Alexander Karpov

September 27, 2017 at 2:13 am

Hi, all.

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When we activate New Asset Accounting in EPH7 we get Error Message “Parallel currency depreciation
area xx is not de ned correctly” –> Message no. AC559, or error message “Parallel crcy area
(crcy type xx) missing for area xx ch.of deprec. xxxx”(from note 2307443).

But we can’t use this note and set ag IdntTrm, because, we have di erent sums  in other depr areas.

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