Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

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Hello AX forum!

Previously I asked a question about depreciation and we've luckily gotten that issue resolved.

However, there is another issue.

Apparently, when the consultants set up the fixed assets and the depreciation books, they set up one book and called it Tax. They also set it up a double declining balance. That issue has been resolved.

But the new issue is there is a depreciation profile that is set up as Straight Line. As mentioned, we had a previous issue but that has been resolved.

The new issue appears to be that because the assets are pulling depreciation from the Depreciation Profile rather than a book, we are unable to utilize AX for transfers or disposals. The requests appear to go through but the Fixed Asset Journal Entries simply move the asset correctly then reverse.

If we go into the value models to by pass the transfer (because we know it does not work) we can correct the "location" but it does not correct the fixed asset journal entry when we propose the depreciation entry.

What is the difference between the depreciation profile and the depreciation book?

I've set up another "Month End" depreciation book that is straight line, with all the correct items, but without being able to transfer, what would be the easiest way to move the assets from the depreciation profile to the depreciation book?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Christine Ando

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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

Hello Ludwig,

Regarding this particular issue. Our internal IT person was able to find a workaround for this particular issue.

For the assets that need to be transferred, I have to do a "Reclassification". Although I am not changing/revising the asset category, it works. I am able to keep the same asset category but by correcting the value model, the "new" asset has the correct location and department.

This has been quite a journey attempting to "correct" all the assets but I believe it's all correct now.

Thank you for all your input!

Christine
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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

Hi Christine,

Per Ludwig's prior comment, this definitely has the feel of a 'bug'.

To address this, you may want to open a support case with Microsoft to verify if the issue can be reproduced in a standard environment.

If so, Microsoft will log a bug (assuming you're still on a supported version of AX 2012).

The workaround you did (JE to correct the location) would be the suggested route to get around this in the interim.

Thanks!
Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

Hello D365problems,

What is your exact build number?

Please see: cloudblogs.microsoft.com/.../

Best regards,

Ludwig
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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi Christine,

This 'smells' like a bug.

What is your exact AX2012 build version?

Best regards,

Ludwig
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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

Hi Ludwig,

My example is, I transferred a asset from Location 08 to Location 01. (I utilized the Transfer button in the FA module.)

The transfer is reflected in the asset:

The transactions reflect as:

However, when the depreciation proposal was created, the JE was to the prior (incorrect) Location:

To correct the posting, we posted another JE to correct the location.

The amount of depreciation is correct, however, the location is not correct.

Thank you

Christine
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Hello Christine,

When you say that the depreciation proposal was not correct, what do you mean by that?

Are the wrong amounts or findims used?

Can you share an example?

Many thanks and best regards,

Ludwig
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I have finally been able to test the transfers in AX.

I would like to announce that the transfers did work correctly.

HOWEVER, I would also like to announce that the depreciation proposal was not correct.

Although the assets transferred and when I look at the Value Models, Financial Dimensions, the Dept and Loc reflect the changes.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what table I may look at for the depreciation proposal? It seems the depreciation proposal does not pull from the same table as the financial dimensions in the value models.

Thank you

Christine
Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

Good morning Christine,

Have you received some feedback from your IT and did you make some progress to get this issue fixed?

Best regards,

Ludwig
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RE: Depreciation Profiles vs. Depreciation Books

OK. Please keep us updated and note that the transfers and postings that I made were for fixed assets that had a value model attached for which previous vouchers were created. If you do some testing in your environment, double check that possibly in some of the MS standard demo companies such as USMF. This should help. Best regards, Ludwig