The following settings have to be made in Customizing for Asset Accounting in preparation for the legacy data transfer (choose Asset Data Transfer): · Decide on the transfer date and the transfer options for each company code and/or depreciation area. · Specify the sequence in which the depreciation areas are to be supplied with values. It makes sense to arrange the depreciation areas so that those areas with values that are not, or only partially, calculated by the system, appear first on the screen in dialog transactions. · If you are using a year-dependent fiscal year version, you also have to carry out the following steps.

For all historical fiscal years, from the capitalization year of your oldest asset minus 1, up to the current fiscal year, you have to · Maintain the calendar date assignments for the fiscal year variant (in Customizing for Financial Accounting). · Generate the depreciation period controls for Asset Accounting (in Customizing for Asset Accounting, choose Periodic processing).

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