Group Assets

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I'm trying to figure out one of the features in new Asset Accounting saying that group asset postings are now redundancy-free, but so far can't get any evidence of being so. Has anyone checked this one yet, and if yes can you point me to the right direction?

Thanks!

Karl

[Former Member]

Hi Karl,

By featuring redundancy-free meaning that asset account tables have been merged with Universal Journal. Tables such as ANEP, ANEK, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC are now stored in ADCOCA and created compatibility views to ensure non disruptiveness. This further helps to reduce data storage, eliminate reconcilaiton as GL and FA accounting is updated in the same tables.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Santosh Varanasi

[NathanGenez]

It's more than just the ACDOCA table.

Karl, make a posting to a normal asset and a group asset scenario in a non-sFIN system.  You should be able to compare that to an sFIN system and see the difference.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your replies Nathan, Santosh. We had difficulty assessing this benefit because apparently, there's an issue with our sFIN with the ANEP table not being deactivated (it's supposed to be deactivated and redirected to a CDS view in sFIN already). This made us jump into wrong conclusions that there's no difference in terms of postings between an sFIN and a non-sFIN system as there are still postings in both AA and GL tables. If you're interested about this issue, the symptoms are described in SAP note 2182930 though the solution didn't fix our issue, so we'll reach out to SAP about it.

Now we have found that postings for group assets are "redundancy free" because postings will only be made in ACDOCA table -- no postings in AA tables anymore.