Asset Accounting
Questions:
1) Are any of your asset values managed in a foreign currency? If so, specify the relevant countries and currencies.
2) Does the fiscal year for asset accounting correspond to the calendar year? If not, specify the start and end dates of your fiscal year.
3) Is your enterprise currently using a shortened fiscal year, or you have used a shortened fiscal year in the past, for which you want the R/3 System to recalculate depreciation as part of the asset data transfer?
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
4) Is your enterprise required to calculate mid-month or mid-year depreciation?
A: [ ]Yes e.g. mid-year review
[ ]No
Handling Fixed Assets - Asset
Maintenance
Creation of Master Record for
Tangible Assets
Questions:
1) Do you need to manage and depreciate certain parts of your asset portfolio in the form of group assets?
2) Who is responsible for creating asset master records? Who provides which information?
3) Which organizational units and/or which functional areas have authorization for creating or displaying asset master records?
4) The asset master record can be divided up into tab pages. How should the asset master record field groups be ordered for your organization?
Explanation: Customizing layout of screen layout
and assignment to asset class.
e.g. SAP standard
Asset Master Record Change
Questions:
1) In your enterprise, who has authorization to change asset master records? For which areas? Are these authorized individuals different from those who create the master records?
2) How often is it necessary to change your asset master records? Which parts of the asset master record are most often affected?
3) Are there certain asset master record fields that need to be protected against changes? If so, which fields?
Explanation: It is possible to define non-changeable
display fields in the asset master record screen layout.
Mass Change
Questions:
1) In your enterprise, who has authorization to change a large number of assets simultaneously?
2) Do you need to make changes to a large number of assets simultaneously?
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
3) If so, under what circumstances? Please describe.
Receipts
Questions:
1) Does your organization have a specific amount, above which purchases are to be capitalized as fixed assets? If so, what is this amount?
Explanation: Amount limit for low-value assets
