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3519687 - Error at Posting of Customer Invoice - Posting not possible; fixed asset 123-FA-0/set of books ABC not capitalized

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

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Source Documents view.
  3. 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:

  1. Go to the Fixed Assets work center.
  2. Go to the Fixed Assets view.
  3. Filter for fixed asset with Individual Material ID YYY in the advanced filter and click Go. Here we see asset FA-0 is retired.
  4. Click Edit > Master Data.
  5. Navigate to the Life Cycle Data sub-tab, observe the deactivation date.
  6. Remove the deactivation date and click Save. Close the asset.
  7. 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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions