Symptom
- An error occurs while posting a customer invoice in the source documents work center view.
- The error message states: "Posting not possible; fixed asset 123-FA-0/set of books ABC not capitalized".
Note:
123 refers to the Company ID
FA-0 refers to the Fixed Asset ID
ABC refer the Set of Book ID
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the General Ledger work center.
- Go to the Source Documents view.
- Find the customer invoice ID XYZ (XYZ refers to the Customer Invoice ID) and observe the error: "Posting not possible; fixed asset 123-FA-0/set of books ABC not capitalized".
Cause
The customer invoice XYZ includes the material YYY (YYY refers to the Individual Material ID) in the line items. The Fixed Asset FA-0 related to Individual Material YYY is retired.
Resolution
The asset needs to be capitalized to resolve this issue. Please follow the steps below to capitalize the retired fixed asset:
- Go to the Fixed Assets work center.
- Go to the Fixed Assets view.
- Filter for fixed asset with Individual Material ID YYY in the advanced filter and click Go. Here we see asset FA-0 is retired.
- Click Edit > Master Data.
- Navigate to the Life Cycle Data sub-tab, observe the deactivation date.
- Remove the deactivation date and click Save. Close the asset.
- Go to the Source Documents work center view and post the customer invoice XYZ.
Keywords
Unposted Source Document, Error, Customer Invoice, Fixed Asset, Retired, Material, Line Item, Capitalized, Posting not possible; fixed asset /set of books not capitalized. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To