2626273 - Depreciation Amount of Same Period Differs Among Multiple Sets of Books

You review the depreciation values for Fixed Asset ABC (ABC represents the Fixed asset ID).

You notice that the depreciation amount in period XXX (XXX represents the accounting period) is different among multiple Set of Books, e.g. Set of books XZY and DEF (XYZ and DEF represent the IDs of two different Set of Books).

Set of books XYZ is assigned to a Fiscal Year variant following the calendar year.

Set of Books DEF is assigned to a Fiscal Year variant deviating from the calendar year, starting during the calendar year.

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1. Go to Fixed Assets work center.

2. Go to Fixed Assets view.

3. Show All Fixed Assets and Find ABC(ABC represents the ID of fixed asset), and click on Go.

4. Select Fixed Asset ID ABC and click on Edit->Values.

5. Select Set of Books XYZ(XYZ represents the ID of set of books which fiscal year follows the calendar year) and view subtab Depreciation Overview.

6. In the Fiscal Year field select Fiscal year YYYY (YYYY represents the Fiscal Year).

7. For Accounting period XX (XX represents the Accounting period number) a Depreciation amount of ZZZ,01 LC (LC is short for Local Currency) is displayed.

8. Now select Set of Books DEF(DEF represents the ID of set of books which Fiscal year deviating from calendar year) and navigate to the Depreciation Overview sub-tab.

9. Select Fiscal Year YYYY.

10. You now notice that the depreciation amount for the same accounting period (XX in Fiscal Year YYYY) is different: ZZZ, 02 LC.

For better understanding, you may refer to the following example:

1. Go to work center Fixed Assets.

2. Go to view Fixed Assets.

3. Show All Fixed Assets and Find ABC(ABC represents the ID of fixed asset), and click on Go.

4. Select Fixed Asset ID ABC and click on Edit Values.

5. Select Set of Books XYZ(Fiscal year follows the calendar year) and view subtab Depreciation Overview.

6. In the Fiscal Year field select, for example, Fiscal year 2018. For Accounting period 02 (Calendar month: February 2018), a Depreciation amount of 100,01 LC is displayed.

7. Now select Set of Books DEF(Fiscal year deviating from calendar year) and navigate to the Depreciation Overview sub-tab.

8. In the Fiscal Year field select Fiscal year 2017. For Accounting period 11 (Calendar month: February 2018) a Depreciation amount of 100,02 CNY is displayed.

As the different set of books are assigned to different Fiscal Year variants, also the period definitions are slightly different across the set of books. This then can cause slight differences of the Depreciation amounts.

System works as designed.

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