2934462 - Balance Carryforward Error Depreciation Pending For The Fixed Assets

The Balance Carryforward run cannot be executed as the error message 'Depreciation pending for the fixed assets' appears. 

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1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Select the view Periodic Tasks.
3. Select the sub-view Balance Carryforward.
4. Select the New button.
5. Enter the values in the required fields.
6. Start the run.

The following error message 'Depreciation pending for the fixed assets' appears and the run cannot be finished. 

You have already completed Depreciation and do not expect this error.

Cause 1: Configuration Changes: 

There has been either 

• a configuration change either triggered by a business user or
• a new fiscal year being opened or
• an SAP delivered modification. 

Such changes trigger a depreciation recalculation run (note the period/year set to 999/9999). The recalculation run triggers recalculation of depreciation values, as in some cases the values would need to be updated after such triggering configuration/fiscal year changes.

When the recalculation of depreciation happens for fixed assets, the system recalculates the values and stores the pending depreciation for every open accounting period.

Case 2: Accumulated Depreciation for previous, open accounting periods:

• If there has been no such configuration change then, very likely,  the depreciation run was not executed for each accounting period of a fiscal year separately but got executed in the last period of a fiscal year when all accounting periods of this year were still open.
• If the depreciation run is executed in a later period when the previous periods are still open, then, even though the depreciation is posted on the later date, the depreciation values are stored in the respective accounting periods rather than in the period for which the run was executed. 

To resolve the error, you could just execute a depreciation update run for all the fixed assets again. 

Or, in case,  the recalculated net value should be zero and you do not want to execute a depreciation run in update mode again, do the following:

1. Close all the accounting periods (= blocked) for the year which you want to run the balance carry forward run, except for the last period under General Ledger work center's Open and Close Periods screen.
2. Go to the Fixed Asset work center and go to the Periodic Tasks view and select the Depreciation subview.
3. Create a new depreciation run and input the year as 9999 and period as 999.
4. Execute the depreciation recalculation run. With such a recalculation run, if the total net values thus recalculated is zero, the values stored in the previous periods and negated in the later period would all be removed. Then you can run balance carry forward without errors.

In case the error persists, please report incident to us.

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