Issue No.: 50
A user needs help with the following situation:
Some assets will be purchased for $50 million. Then, after using them for 12 years, they can be sold for $5 million. So, the depreciable basis needs to be $45 million instead of $50 million over 12 years, or $3.750 million per year. The method will be straight line. So at the end of the 12 years, the net book value should be $5 million.
A user needs help with the following situation:
Some assets will be purchased for $50 million. Then, after using them for 12 years, they can be sold for $5 million. So, the depreciable basis needs to be $45 million instead of $50 million over 12 years, or $3.750 million per year. The method will be straight line. So at the end of the 12 years, the net book value should be $5 million.
The SAP R/3 system comes with two options to handle the scrap: (1) by defining an absolute percentage or (2) by entering an absolute value.
1. You can define an absolute percentage in the scrap key and then assign the key to the asset master. To define the scrap key, use transaction code ANHAL (menu path: IMG → Financial Accounting → Asset Accounting →Depreciation → Valuation Methods → Further Settings → Define the Cutoff Value Key).
Using transaction code ANHAL
2. Instead of a scrap key, you can enter an absolute amount in the asset master as a scrap value.
Depending upon your other configurations, either the scrap value will be reduced before calculation of depreciation or the system will limit depreciation to the scrap value.
