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<Session ID="/baanerp/tf/fam/tffam1215m000" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>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 ERP Enterprise must calculate
		  depreciation and the books in which depreciation must occur. ERP Enterprise 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>ERP Enterprise calculates the depreciation amount as follows:</Paragraph>
            <Formula space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
               <Paragraph>depreciation amount = transaction costs / asset life</Paragraph>
            </Formula>
            <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, ERP Enterprise books the
		  depreciation as one large transaction. If the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld" role="module">General Ledger</GUIRef> module is
		  open, ERP Enterprise 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, ERP Enterprise will assume
		  no units are used and will increment the last depreciation date accordingly.
		  When computing depreciation, ERP Enterprise 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>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000521" role="manual">Depreciation by location</Link>
         </RelTopic>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/000522" role="manual">Reverse depreciation</Link>
         </RelTopic>
      </RelatedTopics>
   </HelpTopic>
   <Fields>
      <FieldHelp ID="form.prod">
         <Header>
            <Title>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>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>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>Print Error Report</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, an error report is
		  printed.</FuncDesc>
      </FieldHelp>
   </Fields>
</Session>