Preface

15

Objective of This Book

15

Target Audience

17

Structure of This Book

19

Introduction

21

SAP S/4HANA Finance

21

SAP HANA Database

21

SAP S/4HANA

24

SAP Fiori

25

New Asset Accounting

27

The New Asset Accounting Concept

27

Multiple Valuation Principles

28

Real-Time Integration with the General Ledger

29

Summary

30

1 Organizational Structures

31

1.1 Company Codes

32

1.1.1 Company Codes in the Organizational Structure

32

1.1.2 Defining Company Codes

32

1.1.3 Company Code Settings

35

1.2 Charts of Depreciation

39

1.2.1 Charts of Depreciation in the Organizational Structure

40

1.2.2 Configuring the Chart of Depreciation

40

1.3 Depreciation Areas

44

1.3.1 Portraying Valuation Frameworks

44

1.3.2 Depreciation Area Settings

45

1.4 Asset Classes

55

1.4.1 Structuring Asset Classes

56

1.4.2 Configuring Asset Classes

58

1.5 Summary

71

2 Master Data

73

2.1 Screen Layouts

73

2.1.1 Screen Layout Definition

74

2.1.2 Field Control

76

2.1.3 Layout for Depreciation Areas

79

2.2 Account Determination

81

2.2.1 Account Determination Definition

81

2.2.2 Assigning General Ledger Accounts

82

2.3 Number Ranges

89

2.4 Asset Hierarchy

90

2.4.1 Asset Numbers

91

2.4.2 Asset Subnumbers

99

2.4.3 Asset Group Numbers

103

2.5 User Fields in Asset Master Records

106

2.5.1 Four-Character User Fields

106

2.5.2 Eight-Character User Fields

107

2.6 Asset Super Numbers

109

2.7 Display Asset Master Worklist App

111

2.8 Summary

115

3 Asset Valuation

117

3.1 Parallel Valuation

117

3.1.1 Accounting Principles

118

3.1.2 Configuring Multiple Valuation

119

3.2 Currencies in Asset Accounting

122

3.2.1 Currency Types

123

3.2.2 Depreciation Area Currency Settings

126

3.3 Real-Time Integration with the General Ledger

129

3.3.1 General Ledger Posting Control

130

3.3.2 Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition

131

3.3.3 Alternative Document Type for Integrated Asset Acquisition

133

3.3.4 Specifying the Posting Key for Asset Posting

134

3.3.5 Assigning an Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions

136

3.3.6 Posting of Depreciation in the General Ledger

136

3.4 Additional Valuation Settings

141

3.4.1 Defining a Depreciation Area for Quantity Update

141

3.4.2 Defining the Transfer of APC Values

142

3.4.3 Defining the Transfer of Depreciation Terms

142

3.4.4 Determining Depreciation Areas in the Asset Class

143

3.4.5 Maximum Amount for Low-Value Assets

146

3.5 Summary

148

4 Business Transactions

151

4.1 Acquisitions

151

4.1.1 Configuring Acquisitions

152

4.1.2 Acquisitions with a Vendor

159

4.1.3 Acquisitions with Automatic Offsetting Entries

171

4.1.4 Acquisitions from Affiliated Companies

177

4.2 Assets Under Construction

179

4.2.1 Configuring Assets Under Construction

179

4.2.2 Capitalization of Assets Under Construction

183

4.2.3 Assets Under Construction with Investment Management

187

4.2.4 Assets Under Construction with Project System

190

4.3 Transfers

193

4.3.1 Configuring Transfers

193

4.3.2 Transferring Assets within a Company Code

198

4.3.3 Intercompany Asset Transfers

201

4.4 Retirement

203

4.4.1 Configuring Asset Retirement

203

4.4.2 Asset Sales with a Customer

206

4.4.3 Asset Sales without a Customer

209

4.4.4 Asset Retirement by Scrapping

211

4.5 Manual Value Corrections

213

4.5.1 Configuring Manual Asset Value Corrections

213

4.5.2 Write-Ups

214

4.5.3 Write-Downs

215

4.5.4 Manual Depreciation

217

4.5.5 Unplanned Depreciation

218

4.6 Summary

219

5 Periodic Processing

221

5.1 Depreciation

221

5.1.1 Configuring Depreciation

222

5.1.2 Executing Depreciation Runs

236

5.1.3 Displaying Logs

241

5.1.4 Analyzing Errors

242

5.2 Revaluation

243

5.2.1 Configuring Revaluation

244

5.2.2 Posting a Revaluation Run

247

5.2.3 Inflation

248

5.3 Year-End Closing

251

5.4 Summary

251

6 Asset Reporting

253

6.1 Asset Overview

253

6.1.1 Asset Explorer

253

6.1.2 Asset Accounting Overview App

258

6.2 Asset Balances

262

6.2.1 SAP GUI Report

262

6.2.2 Asset Balances App

265

6.3 Asset History Sheet

267

6.3.1 Configuration

267

6.3.2 SAP GUI Report

271

6.3.3 Asset History Sheet App

274

6.4 Asset Transactions

279

6.4.1 SAP GUI Report

279

6.4.2 Asset Transactions App

283

6.5 Display Asset Master Worklist App

285

6.6 Depreciation Lists App

287

6.7 Summary

289

7 Migrating Asset Data

291

7.1 Migration Process in SAP S/4HANA

291

7.1.1 Migration Checks and Prerequisites

292

7.1.2 Migration Tools

296

7.1.3 Migration Execution

307

7.2 Migrating Fixed Asset Data

308

7.2.1 Configuration Activities Prior to Migration

309

7.2.2 Performing Manual Migration

311

7.2.3 Automated Migration Process

318

7.3 Summary

320