Settlement of Old Asset Data error when trying to settle an investment project #COE #MODPIZZA

[former_member95896]

Hello,

We are trying to post a partial capitalization from an investment project element to both a GL as we've done several times over the past year and are getting the following error as we have entered a new fiscal year and period (we're trying to do this as part of FY21 Period 1 close activities).

I've read that this error message has been out there for a while on AUC's on prem and much of the advise is to switch the error message to a warning (which to my knowledge isn't something we can do in public cloud). We have investment projects that routinely span fiscal years and it is unrealistic to think that we'll know at the end of a fiscal year that  either that 100% of our investment project element balance is going to go to a fixed asset or to have us expense and resettle every element to allow us to expense to a GL in the new year.

Why does S/4HANA Cloud have this limitation with investment projects, and how can we workaround it?

Regards,

Ryan

[former_member95896]

The workaround developed for this specific case was to post a journal entry removing the value from the investment project element associated with the AUC and posting it to the expense GL we were trying to use in the partial capitalization. After that doing a periodic settlement on the project element.