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<Session ID="/baanerp/tf/fam/tffam1215m000" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Asset Book Depreciation (tffam1215m000)</Title>
	</Header>
	<HelpTopic><AimSection><Paragraph>Use this session to indicate basic <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000129" role="glossary">depreciation</Link> data for <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000114" role="glossary">asset books</Link>. You depreciate assets by book when you want to record an asset's depreciation for one or more but not all of an asset's related books. When you depreciate assets by book, you indicate the period and year through which SSA ERP must calculate depreciation and the books in which depreciation must occur. SSA ERP determines which of the indicated assets and books are eligible for depreciation in the selected periods, then calculates the appropriate depreciation amounts.</Paragraph>
		</AimSection>
		<GeneralSection><Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>SSA ERP calculates the depreciation amount as follows:</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>Depreciation amount = Transaction costs / Asset life.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>If the costs in relation to the asset life are so low that after rounding off the amount according to the currency definition the depreciation amount approaches zero, the depreciation does not end. Depreciaton transactions with zero amounts are created and the asset net book value is not decreased.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
			<Paragraph>If the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld" role="module">General Ledger</GUIRef> module is closed for any of the periods, SSA ERP books the depreciation as one large transaction. If the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld" role="module">General Ledger</GUIRef> module is open, SSA ERP creates multiple <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000149" role="glossary">transactions</Link>, one for each period.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>If any of the selected assets contain a life in units in any of the assets' books, you must first run <Link href="/baanerp/tf/fam/tffam1145s000" role="session">Record Asset Units Used (tffam1145s000)</Link> prior to depreciation. If you do not run the session, SSA ERP will assume no units are used and will increment the last depreciation date accordingly. When computing depreciation, SSA ERP calculates and compares the new value to the existing value. The difference is recorded as the depreciation transaction for that period.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000173" role="manual">Restating Depreciation for Asset Books</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000136" role="manual">Restating Depreciation for Assets</Link>
			</RelTopic>
		</RelatedTopics>
	</HelpTopic>
	<Fields><FieldHelp ID="form.prod"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Period</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The period through which depreciation will be calculated.</FuncDesc>
			<AllowedValues><SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>Integers between 1 and n, where n is the number of periods in the calendar.</Paragraph>
			</AllowedValues>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="form.year"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Year</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Year through which depreciation will be calculated.</FuncDesc>
			<AllowedValues><SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>Four-digit numeric values.</Paragraph>
			</AllowedValues>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="form.suppress"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Suppress Journal Entries</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, <Link href="/baanerp/tf/glossary/glossary#000160" role="glossary">journal entries</Link> are not created in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld" role="module">General Ledger</GUIRef> module for this transaction.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="print.report"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Print Error Report</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, an error report is printed.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
	</Fields>
</Session>
