Is there a method to effectively clear these fixed asset depreciation records?

[SAPSupport]

The customer has identified that there are hundreds of assets with accumulated depreciation amounts recorded for last year. They would like to clear this data from the production environment ahead of the second go live.

Could you advise if there is a method to effectively clear these depreciation records?

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[SAPSupport · Accepted solution]

If you have transferred legacy data with errors to the Q system, either manually or using the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit, you can completely delete this incorrect data.

To do so, use the Reset Transaction Data job template from the app Schedule Accounting Data Corrections.

You use this job template to delete master data and transaction data from Asset Accounting, along with other accounting data.

Note

You can only use the job template in the quality management system (Q system), and not in the production system (P system).

On production you can only reverse one by one, there is no API or mass reversal tool. The reversal will reverse both the APC and cumulative depreciation amounts as they would be part of the one journal entry number.

• The customer could reverse normal postings like an APC posting.
• The manual depreciation in opposite to the normal depreciation values (ordinary/special) could be reversed similar by just reversing the related posting.
• The normal depreciation posting to G/L happens through the depreciation posting run. And this run could not be reversed directly. But if there is no depreciation calculated again by for example changing the depreciation key to 0000 this will ‘reverse’ the already posted depreciation with the next depreciation posting run, i.e. in sum the values will be 0.