Changing useful life of an asset

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Client wants to change the asset's useful life from 4 years to 3 years. Also previous depreciations should not get affected due to this. The new recalculated value of the asset should be spread over the remaining useful life and depreciation amount should also be recalculated accordingly. Do we have such functionality in SAP version ECC4.6?? or we need to post the depreciation manually going forward?? I have tried smoothing method but this is also not helping me out.

Please advice if we can do something in it.

Many Thanks,

Parul

[javier_reviriego]

Hello Parul

Sorry but this functionality is only available as of release 6.0 if you have the

new depreciation engine activated. Note 965032 will provide you more details. In

particular section 4. c) Managing time-dependent depreciation parameters:

With the new depreciation calculation, you now have the option to

change depreciation terms during the fiscal year. This means that

the changed parameters are included in the calculation always

from the period for which the period is also valid.

The following depreciation terms can be maintained time-dependently on the fixed asset:

- Depreciation Keys

- Useful life

- scrap value/scrap value percentage rate

- variable depreciation portion

Regards

Javier