In SAP S/4HANA's new Asset Accounting, the depreciation posting run provides enhanced flexibility. The run is executed per accounting principle, allowing for separate postings to different ledgers to support parallel valuation (C). If a depreciation run is posted incorrectly, the resulting financial accounting document can be fully reversed using standard FI reversal procedures (B). The depreciation run posts detailed line items to the Universal Journal (table ACDOCA), which includes the specific asset number for each posting. This data is linked by the FI document number, making it possible to check the posted depreciation for each individual asset (A).

D: The program automatically stops and issues an error log if it detects errors in any assets during an update run; there is no user option to "select to cancel".

E: The depreciation run is a mass processing transaction for multiple assets. Simulating depreciation for a single, individual asset is a function of the Asset Explorer (Transaction AW01N).

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

"Depreciation Run": This document states

"You can restrict the run to one or more accounting principles." This confirms that the run can be executed separately for different ledgers (or more precisely

the accounting principles assigned to them). It also explains the error handling process where the system stops if errors are found.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

"Universal Journal Entry": The documentation for the Universal Journal and table ACDOCA shows that asset-specific fields (like ANLN1

ANLN2) are part of the journal entry line item. This confirms that the FI document

which represents a set of journal entries

contains the underlying data to trace depreciation back to individual assets.

3. SAP Note 2969065 - "Reversing depreciation posting run in S/4HANA": This official SAP Note details the procedure for reversing a depreciation run

confirming that the generated FI documents are reversible.

4. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

"Asset Explorer": This documentation describes the Asset Explorer as the primary tool for analyzing values and simulating depreciation for an individual asset

distinguishing its purpose from the mass processing depreciation run.