SAP: Asset Accounting: Reversing Documents

You can reverse documents that originated in Asset Accounting.

TCODE: AB08 -> Posting -> Reverse Document.

When you call up the reversal transaction, the system shows you all the transactions for the asset. Select the transaction you want to reverse, and choose the Reverse function.

Postings that Cannot Be Reversed in Asset Accounting

The following postings cannot be reversed in Asset Accounting. They have to be reversed in the integrated application in which they were posted:

• Acquisition with vendor (Accounts Payable)

• Acquisition with purchase order (goods/invoice receipt)

• Retirement with customer (Accounts Receivable)

• Stock withdrawal (Materials Management)

Reversal Indicator

 

Along with the special reversal transaction, the initial screen of the FI-AA posting transaction also offers a reversal indicator. When you set this indicator, you can create a posting that corresponds to the selected posting transaction, but has reversed positive/negative signs.

 

This posting, however, has no relation to the original document. In addition, when you use this posting, the system newly calculates the proportional value adjustments in accordance with the asset value date of the posting. This is different from the procedure with an actual reversal.

 

Reversal of the Settlement of an Asset under Construction

 

There is a separate transaction for reversing the settlement of an asset under construction. Enter the number of the asset under construction that was settled. The system then reverses all documents that were posted during the last settlement. If you want to reverse a settlement that was posted before the most recent one, you first have to reverse all the settlements, which were posted after the one you want, in chronological order.

 

You cannot use this transaction to reverse the settlement of assets under construction that were only managed for cost accounting.