Blueprint MODECOR
Blueprint MODECOR
Version: A
_________________
Record of Release
Version No. Release Date Modified By / Reviewed By / Remarks/Changes
date date
Table of Contents
A. Organization ................................................................................................................................ 4
1. Financial Accounting ............................................................................................................ 4
1.1. Chart of Accounts ......................................................................................................... 4
2. Asset Accounting .................................................................................................................. 5
2.1. Depreciation area .......................................................................................................... 5
2.2. Chart of depreciation ..................................................................................................... 6
2.3. Asset class .................................................................................................................... 7
B. Master Data ................................................................................................................................. 8
1. Financial Accounting ............................................................................................................ 8
1.1. G/L Account .................................................................................................................. 8
1.2. Ledger ........................................................................................................................... 9
2. Asset Accounting .................................................................................................................. 9
C. Business Processes .................................................................................................................... 11
1. Financial Accounting ............................................................................................................ 11
1.1. Basic Settings ............................................................................................................... 11
1.2. General Ledger Accounting .......................................................................................... 15
1.3. Accounts Payable ......................................................................................................... 21
1.4. Accounts Receivable .................................................................................................... 30
1.5. Bank Accounting ........................................................................................................... 40
2. Asset Accounting .................................................................................................................. 44
2.1. Handling Fixed Assets .................................................................................................. 44
2.2. Handling of Leased Assets ........................................................................................... 60
Organization
1. Financial Accounting
1.1. Chart of Accounts
Questions:
Q: 2) How many natural accounts will each chart of accounts contain? (estimated)
Q: 4) Describe how the account number is set up (for example: department, natural
account).
A: Account Group wise (e.g. Liabilities, Current Liabilities, Assets, Fixed and current ,
Expenses (i.e. Manufacturing, Selling, Administration) Revenues (Sales, Dividends,
Miscellaneous Income & others)
A: It has been decided to follow the Legacy Chart of accounts with additional GL accounts
for MM, SD & PP automatic postings.
A: English
Q: 7) Which additional languages do you wish to use for your charts of accounts?
A: Arabic
2. Asset Accounting
Questions:
A: For all the 4 Companies (i.e. SFCCL, MODECOR, UGG & UGS)
Q: 2) If you have more than one enterprise entity: is a holding company the owner of assets
used in another enterprise?
A: No
Q: 3) If you have more than one entity, are there affiliated or integrated companies? Please
list all affiliates, subsidiaries, trading partners, shares in other companies and integrated
companies.
A: No.
A: According to KSA Laws, any addition to the FA, the depreciation will be calculated on
50% of APC in current year and 50% next year and on retirements during the year.
Q: 2) Do you require additional parallel valuations for your assets, e.g. for consolidated
valuation, for cost accounting purposes or for statutory reasons? If so, please specify
A: Not required.
Q: 3) If you have a separate valuation for cost accounting, do you calculate and record
interest?
A: No
A: No
Q: 5) Do you need to record depreciation for purposes other than book depreciation?
accounting depreciation - Special reserves for special depreciation ? - N
Q: 6) Do you want the values for these other viewpoints to be derived from the book
depreciation area or another depreciation area (for example, the cost-accounting depreciation
area can be derived from indexed book depreciation values)?
Q: 7) Which depreciation area do you use for calculating cost-accounting depreciation and
passing it on to cost accounting?
A: Book Depreciation.
A: Base for Cost accounting depreciation is Book Depreciation. Hence no specific valuation
is required.
Q: 9) If you claim special tax depreciation, how do you handle it: - Allocation and write-off
amounts individually or balanced with each other? - Using a separate depreciation valuation
area?
Q: 2) Are there any statutory asset valuation requirements which would involve parallel
valuation in your financial accounting?
Q: 1) Describe how your fixed assets are structured in the balance sheet?
Q: 2) How do you classify your fixed assets at the moment? How do you intend to classify
your assets in the future?
A: No
Q: 4) Do you manage low value assets (LVAs) as fixed assets, or do you post them directly
to an expense account?
A: The Limit for LVA is 2500 SAR. Yes, we will have the concept of LVA in future.
Q: 5) Please list, or provide a list of the asset types that you intend to manage in the Asset
Accounting system (e.g. Land, Buildings, Intangibles, etc).
Q: 6) For each asset category (asset class), list the default depreciation method and the
period of depreciation you would like to use.
A: Each Asset class will have uniform rate of Depreciation and period will be derived from
the nature of FA.
SLM will be followed.
B. Master Data
1. Financial Accounting
1.1. G/L Account
Questions:
Q: 1) What procedure do you use when you need to create new account numbers?
Explanation: This can occur centrally or decentralized; Sample accounts can be used.
A: Based on the Nature of Accounts, under relevant account group it will created
Creation of GL account will be a centralized. Decision to be taken by Business Heads
Q: 2) Can you define groups of general ledger accounts that require similar information in
the master record?
A: Yes. All individual GL accounts will be grouped according to its nature with similarity
through FSV.
Q: 4) For which general ledger accounts do you wish to display line items?
A: All expenses, revenues, clearing accounts, bank accounts and for all off setting, payable
accounts.
Q: 5) Which accounts do you wish to manage on an open item basis (for example, bank
clearing accounts)?
Q: 6) Which accounts do you wish to maintain in foreign currency (for example, bank
accounts)?
A: There are certain bank accounts which are maintained in Foreign Currency account. Any
other GL accounts which business process requires (e.g. Service charges incurred for foreign
nationals)
Q: 7) Describe any special requirements when posting to particular general ledger accounts
(for example, expense accounts require an associated cost center).
A: Yes there will be certain expenses will have default Cost Centers.
A: As there is no tax procedures exists in KSA, Hence all accounts will be not relevant to
tax.
1.2. Ledger
Questions:
Q: 2) Do you have special statutory accounting requirements that are not covered in other
R/3 applications? Example: Currency translation of a foreign subsidiary, different fiscal year
ends to the international trading partner.
Q: 3) Have you defined the necessary domains and data elements in the ABAP Dictionary?
A:
2. Asset Accounting
Questions:
Q: 1) How many fixed assets and how many assets under construction do you currently
have?
Q: 4) Do you see a business need to use both internal and external number assignment,
depending on the asset class? If so, please specify.
Q: 5) If you use external number assignment, do you want to allow the assignment of
alphanumeric numbers?
A: No
Q: 6) Do you want to represent asset components using asset sub-numbers? If so, for what
purposes do you plan to use asset sub-numbers?
Q: 7) Are cost centers (business areas) to be defined in the asset master record on a time-
dependent basis?
Q: 8) Do you see a business need to create multiple similar asset master records in one
step?
Q: 9) Do you have assets that require increased depreciation due to multiple shift use?
Q: 11) How do you archive your asset master records at the present time?
Q: 12) How long do you intend to continue to manage assets, which are no longer on hand
physically, in the system?
C. Business Processes
1. Financial Accounting
1.1. Basic Settings
1.1.1. Fiscal Year and Posting Periods
Questions:
A: Yes
A: Yes
Q: 3) If your fiscal year is not identical with the calendar year, please provide a schedule of
period closing for the past, current and next year.
Q: 4) Do all your company codes have the same fiscal year/fiscal year variant? Provide
details if this is not the case.
A: All the 4 company codes follow Calendar year. But each company will have its own fiscal
year variant.
A: Once the auditing is completed and Audit Report is approved by Top Management.
Q: 6) Who is responsible for opening and closing accounting periods (including for materials
management)?
1.1.2. Document
Questions:
A: For all the Document types Internal Number will be used. There are no legal
requirements.
Questions:
Q: 1) Which help for posting do you need (such as account assignment models, sample
documents, control totals, user parameters)?
Questions:
Q: 1) Value added tax: Which are the current tax rates in the countries of your company
codes?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: As of now No. In future depending upon the Business requirement and development, we
may have.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 9) Do you use a particular exchange rate for taxes? If so, please specify.
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
A: No
Questions:
Q: 1) What are the reporting requirements for contractors, self-employed etc. in your
country?
A: WHT is applicable for Imported Services only and WHT to be deducted only at the time of
payment.
Q: 2) How do you transmit this information to the tax authorities and your vendors?
1.1.7. Inflation
Questions:
A: No
Q: 2) If there are legal requirements for inflation, how do they impact financial accounting:
Do you use hard currency or do you use periodic revaluation?
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have documents that occur on a regular basis (monthly or quarterly, for
example)?
Questions:
Q: 1) How should a document reversal update the balances of the relevant accounts?
A: SAP Standard relevant Document types will be used for document reversal.
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) Is there certain information that you wish to be able to display when you view items
online?
A:
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) What daily, weekly, periodic, and ad hoc reports do you need for the general ledger?
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) For which G/L accounts do you calculate interest on balances? Give a brief
description.
Questions:
A:
A:
Q: 3) Describe your current process and time frame for year-end closing.
A:
Q: 4) How do you specifically handle reporting for taxes on sales and purchases and other
statutory requirements?
A:
Explanation: Within Financial Accounting: (Does G/L accounting tally with sub ledger
accounting? Does Financial Accounting tally with Materials Management, Assets Accounting,
Controlling, and so on?)
A:
Questions:
Explanation: F-05
Questions:
Explanation: F-05
Questions:
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you show goods receipts without an invoice and invoices without goods receipts
separately in your balance sheet reporting?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to produce an internal balance sheet on business area or profit center
level?
Explanation: You may need to make subsequent adjustments, in other words, distribute cash
discounts (for example) to the source business areas/profit centers.
A: No
Questions:
A: On monthly basis
Questions:
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic asset reporting?
A: Asset Registers, Asset Explorer. Cost Center wise Depreciation Cost. and other
reporting requirements will be informed in consultation with Core User.
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you need for Asset
Accounting?
Q: 4) Which kind of reports do you use to reconcile asset accounting with the general
ledger?
Q: 5) Are there any particular reports you would like for low value assets?
Q: 6) Are there any particular reports you run for leased assets?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Manually.
Q: 8) By which organizational units (or combinations of units) are asset reporting functions
structured (for example, company, cost center etc)?
Questions:
1.2.6. Integration
Questions:
Q: 1) How should the areas asset accounting, overhead cost controlling, materials
management, payroll, and sales and distribution be integrated with general ledger
accounting?
Explanation: You should also give consideration to special account assignments and
document summarizations.
A:
A: [ ]Yes
[X ]No
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases do your vendors require you to make a payment prior to the
processing of an order or shipment?
Explanation: Comment for PS: Note that it is possible to schedule a down payment in the
invoicing plan for an externally processed or general costs activity, or for an externally
procured material component within the project.
Q: 2) Please describe the complete process currently in place for down payments, including
the postings that are generated.
Explanation: Comment for PS: Note that it is possible to schedule a down payment in the
invoicing plan for an externally processed or general costs activity, or for an externally
procured material component within the project.
A: The request may be from Purchase department. Treasury will make the payment. Dr
Vendor and Cr Bank
Q: 3) Do you plan on paying down payments with the automatic payment program?
Explanation: Comment for PS: The transfer posting of cash items is a process that takes
place at the end of the period. It must be carried out before you can see the current cash
items in the project.
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) What are your internal procedures and controls from the point of invoice receipt to
payment?
A: Invoice is matched with Purchase Order and payment will be made on Due date
Questions:
Q: 1) What is your procedure for parking and releasing invoices and or/credit memos?
Questions:
Q: 1) Which invoices, that are not related to a purchase order, do you typically post?
A: Petty Cash purchases, Staff related expenses and Non inventory transactions.
Explanation: Handling of exchange rates - for example, manual entry of exchange rate in the
document?
A: As per the exchange rates maintained in the Table. No manual entry of exchange rate
will be made.
A: Not applicable
A: Presently not available. In future it will be handled through Payment terms with
automatic account assignment posting
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) How should a document reversal update the balances of the relevant accounts?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have documents that occur on a regular basis (monthly or quarterly, for
example)?
Questions:
Q: 1) Is there certain information that you wish to be able to display when you view vendor
postings online?
Questions:
Questions:
A: by MM
Questions:
Q: 1) Which payment methods do you use (check, bank transfers, bills of exchange, direct
debit, etc.)?
Q: 2) How do you pay your domestic vendors (by check, bank transfer etc.)?
Q: 3) How do you pay your foreign vendors (by check, bank transfer, etc.)
A: By LC and TTs.
Explanation: Are you using the HR module? Are accounts managed for each employee?
Q: 6) Do you always issue a single payment for multiple invoices to the same vendor? If
not please specify the exceptions.
Q: 10) How do you handle exchange rate differences in foreign currency payments?
Q: 11) How do you create the payment media (payment forms, remittance advices or
electronic files) for these payment methods?
A: Yes
Q: 14) How do you transfer your electronic payment file to the bank?
A: By e-mail or CD/Floppy.
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases do your vendors require you to make payment before the date of
required payment on the invoice?
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you release invoices that have been blocked for payment?
Questions:
Q: 2) Do you print or hand-write the payment media (for example, debit memo forms)?
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you post payments? Which G/L accounts are used? Which additional account
assignments (for example, cost centers) do you need for bank postings, bank charges ac
counts, cash discount accounts, and exchange rate differences?
A: Bank Account GL. Bank Charges needs to be debited incase of DD. Presently cash
discount is not applicable.
Q: 2) Do you wish to clear vendor invoices at the time of payment or at the time the bank
statement is posted?
Explanation: Payment method indicator: Selecting payment order and not payment posting
means that the payment program: does not post a payment document does not clear the paid
items. does not clear the paid items. Instead, a payment order is created and saved. The
information contained therein can be used to clear the item at a later date. contained
therein can be used to clear the item at a later date. The posting of the payment occurs
with the account statement of the bank and selection of the associated open items via
entry of the payment order. payment order. The paid items are locked until the
payment is posted. This means that they cannot be used in other clearing transactions or
further payment runs.
A: No
A: No
Q: 7) Which bank account(s) are used for payments? List the bank accounts by payment
method, by foreign currency, or any other criteria relevant for bank selection.
Q: 8) How does your actual cash position influence the way you assign funds to the
different banks in the payment program?
A: Presently this functionality is not in use. Will be explored further to make use of it.
Questions:
Q: 1) For which incoming payments do you create payment medium forms (incoming bills of
exchange, for example)?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Accounts Receivables
Q: 3) Do you use your own number management for checks (check management)?
A: No
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases are open items cleared other than through payment receipts?
Explanation: Note: With advance payments and offsetting, clearing has to be done
afterwards.
Questions:
Questions:
Questions:
A: Not applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
A: Not Applicable
A: Not Applicable
A: Not Applicable
A: Not Applicable
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases do you require your customers to make a payment prior to the
processing an invoice or delivery?
Explanation: Comment for PS: It is possible to schedule customer down payments in the
project billing plan in WBS elements that have the indicator "Billing element".
Q: 2) What is the complete process for down payments, including the postings that are
generated?
Explanation: Comment for PS: Note that it is possible to configure the use of milestones
such that a down payment request is automatically triggered. When the milestone is
completed, the request is generated by the settlement run.
A: Customer account gets credited once the down payment is received and deposited in the
Bank. After, an invoice is raised , it will be knocked off against down payment.
Q: 3) Do you plan on paying down payments with the automatic payment program? (direct
debit)
Explanation: Comment for PS: The transfer posting of cash items is a process that takes
place at the end of the period. It must be carried out before you can see the current cash
items in the project.
A: No
A: Yes
Questions:
A: A separate Recon account will be created for Down payments received from customers.
Q: 2) How are these down payments cleared with the customer account?
A: No.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do customer invoices require any type of approval before they are posted?
Q: 2) What is your procedure for parking and releasing invoices and or/credit memos?
A: Standard SAP Procedure. Authorised person will post the parked documents.
Questions:
A: SAP Standard RV will be used and Doc Number range yet to be decided
A: NO.
Explanation: How are exchange rates handled? For example, manual entry of the exchange
rate in the document?
A: Yes
Comments: Exchange rates will be maintained on periodic basis. The system should
take the rates from the Exchange rate table.
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) How should a document reversal update the balances of the relevant accounts?
A: SAP Standard relevant Document types will be used for document reversal.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have documents that occur on a regular basis (monthly or quarterly, for
example)?
Questions:
Q: 1) Is there any particular information that you wish to represent when representing
customer postings online?
A: Yes
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedures do you have in place to control your customers' credit limits?
Explanation: Time of credit limit check; Relevant documents for the credit limit check;
Consequences of credit limit check (Notification of person responsible, locking of documents
and so on)
A: Presently it is used . In future we need to use the Credit Control Area concept for better
customer
credit limits.
Questions:
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Which payment procedure do your customers use? (Check, bank transfer, bill of
exchange, debit memo procedure)
Explanation: For example, charging off, creating residual items, partial payment
A: Diff. is of small amount, it will be written off. or else, partial payment clearing concept
will be followed.
A: Normally yes.
Questions:
A: Yes
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you release invoices that have been blocked for payment?
Questions:
Q: 2) Which payment procedure do your customers use? (Check, bank transfer, bill of
exchange, debit memo procedure)
Q: 3) Do you print or hand-write the payment media (for example, debit memo forms)?
A: Printed.
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you post payments? Which G/L accounts are used? Which additional account
assignments (for example, cost centers) do you need for bank postings, bank charges ac
counts, cash discount accounts, and exchange rate differences?
Q: 2) Do you process automatic payments for your customers, such as direct debits and
bills of exchange? Please describe in detail how these payments are processed.
A: No
A: No
Q: 7) Which bank account(s) are used for payments? List the bank accounts by payment
method, by foreign currency, or any other criteria relevant for bank selection.
Q: 8) How does your actual cash position influence the way you assign funds to the
different banks in the payment program?
A: Yes. Automatic account determination will be made for customer payment related bank
charges.
Questions:
Q: 1) For which incoming payments do you create payment medium forms (incoming bills of
exchange, for example)?
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do your customers pay by credit card? Describe in detail how these payments are
processed.
A: No not in practice
Questions:
Q: 1) Do your customers use bills of exchange to pay? Describe this procedure in detail.
Questions:
Q: 1) If you process manual payments, do you want the option of directly entering a check
or a bill of exchange?
A: not clear
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases are open items cleared other than through payment receipts?
Explanation: Note: With advance payments and offsetting, clearing has to be done
afterwards.
A: If a customer is also a vendor, then his receivables will be cleared against his payables.
Questions:
Questions:
A: Yes.
Q: 6) Which organizational units are responsible for dunning (for example, company code,
division)?
A: NO.
Questions:
Q: 4) What types of notices do you send to your customers and how often?
Questions:
Q: 5) What types of notices do you send to your customers and how often?
Questions:
Questions:
A: Through Journal entries. Cash receipt in Cash Journal by way of Cash drawn from the
Bank.
Q: 2) For which business transactions are incoming cash journal postings made?
Questions:
Q: 1) For which house banks would it make sense to use electronic bank statements? Do
these banks have the required technical capability?
A: Most of our banks are technically capable to provide us electronic bank statements.
Q: 3) What specific information do the bank statements contain (e.g. invoice numbers)? If
you wish to use the information for the payee to allocate items, you need to select a suitable
interpretation algorithm.
Q: 4) Does you house bank transfer business transaction codes with the bank statements to
help you classify the postings?
A: No.
A:
A: Yes. through Incoming & Outgoing clearing accounts for each Bank account.
Q: 8) Do you want to distinguish between posting documents for manual and electronic
bank statements for accounting and reporting purposes?
Questions:
Q: 1) What specific information do your bank statements contain (for example, invoice
numbers)?
Q: 2) Does you house bank transfer business transaction codes with the bank statements to
help you classify the postings?
A: not clear
A: not clear
A: Yes. Incoming & Outgoing interim clearing accounts for each Bank accounts.
Q: 6) Do you want to distinguish between posting documents for manual and electronic
bank statements for accounting and reporting purposes?
A: No.
Questions:
Q: 1) How many checks do you present to your house banks per day?
A: Approx 25 to 30 instruments.
A: Manually.
Q: 3) What information given by the check issuer can be used to allocate items (check
number, invoice number)?
A: Invoice Numbers.
Q: 4) Sketch the posting steps for check deposits (are checks posted directly to customer
accounts or via clearing accounts)?
Q: 5) Do you want to separate check postings for general ledger accounting and sub ledger
accounting?
A: No.
Questions:
1.5.2. Outgoings
1.5.2.1. Payment with Payment Requests
Questions:
Explanation: Documentation: Payment requests form the basis for payment here, not open
items (FI documents).
A: No
Questions:
A: Through Journal entries. Cash receipt in Cash Journal by way of Cash drawn from the
Bank.
Q: 2) For which business transactions are incoming cash journal postings made?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you use pre numbered checks, or do you assign your checks numbers from self-
defined number ranges?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) For which G/L accounts do you calculate interest on balances? Give a brief
description.
Q: 4) Do you combine the debit and credit balances of different accounts for interest
calculation?
Explanation: Cash pooling involves the fictitious combination of debit and credit balances on
accounts. Interest is calculated on the pooled overall balance.
A:
2. Asset Accounting
Questions:
Q: 1) Are any of your asset values managed in a foreign currency? If so, specify the
relevant countries and currencies.
A: At present only in Local currency. As no branch or plant located outside the Kingdom
Q: 2) Does the fiscal year for asset accounting correspond to the calendar year? If not,
specify the start and end dates of your fiscal year.
A: It is a calendar year.
Q: 3) Is your enterprise currently using a shortened fiscal year, or you have used a
shortened fiscal year in the past, for which you want the R/3 System to recalculate
depreciation as part of the asset data transfer?
A: No
A: No
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to manage and depreciate certain parts of your asset portfolio in the
form of group assets?
Q: 2) Who is responsible for creating asset maser records? Who provides which
information?
Q: 3) Which organizational units and/or which functional areas have authorization for
creating or displaying asset master records?
A: Finance Department.
Q: 4) The asset master record can be divided up into tab pages. How should the asset
master record field groups be ordered for your organization?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to manage and depreciate certain parts of your asset portfolio in the
form of group assets?
Questions:
Q: 1) In your enterprise, who has authorization to change asset master records? For which
areas? Are these authorized individuals different from those who create the master records?
A: Finance Department, will hold the responsibility of creation, change & display master
asset master records.
Q: 2) How often is it necessary to change your asset master records? Which parts of the
asset master record are most often affected?
Q: 3) Are there certain asset master record fields that need to be protected against
changes? If so, which fields?
Explanation: It is possible to define non-changeable display fields in the asset master record
screen layout.
A: Yes. Date of capitalization, Description, Depreciation key, Cost Center & start date of
depreciation.
Questions:
A: Yes
2.1.2. Receipts
Questions:
Q: 1) Does your organization have a specific amount, above which purchases are to be
capitalized as fixed assets? If so, what is this amount?
Questions:
Q: 1) Are some services (or internal activities) capitalized (such as legal costs or
consultancy charges)?
A: Yes.
Q: 2) Do you activate costs for internal activity using: - Production order - Investment
measure - Asset under construction - Direct capitalization - Other?
Q: 3) For reporting, would you like separate capitalized internal activities using different
transaction types?
A: Yes.
Questions:
A: Order will be placed through PO, Receipt of Asset, may be under WIP or AUC, then on
completion certificate it will be capitalized.
A: As explained in question no 1
Q: 4) Are asset acquisitions posted on a net basis (deducting any discounts) or as a gross
amount (discounts are deducted only on payment)?
A: Net Procedure.
Q: 5) Do you want to show acquisitions to certain depreciation areas differently than you do
in the book depreciation area (for example, to fulfill certain cost-accounting, tax or group
requirements)?
A: No.
A:
Q: 8) If using asset sub-numbering, do you want to permit asset acquisitions only to the
main number in the year of capitalization, and post all later acquisitions to sub-numbers?
A: Sub Asset numbering concept will be used for any later or additions to the main asset.
Q: 9) Do you keep a record of costs using acquisitions to the asset under construction?
Q: 10) Do you plan and budget for capital investments in your enterprise? Should assets
that are capitalized directly also be included in the planning and budgeting processes?
A: Yes.
Q: 11) Which is the procedure from invoice receipt to posting of capitalization? Outline the
different steps.
Questions:
A: Before captilisation all the expenses pertaining to assets will be carefully analysed. Then
asset will be capitalized. Mere subsequent debit in the asset will not serve our purpose.
2.1.3. Depreciation
2.1.3.1. Creation of Reserves from Gain from Asset Retirement
Questions:
Q: 1) Under what circumstances do you intend to create reserves from profits realized on
the sale of fixed assets?
Questions:
A: No
Q: 2) If so, provide examples. How do you post? What are the reasons?
A: Not applicable.
Questions:
Q: 1) What are the methods of depreciation that you are currently using?
Q: 4) Do you want to allow negative depreciation for certain assets or categories of assets?
If so, please specify.
A: No
A: !st depreciation calculation period will be from the date of capitalization and for
subsequent periods on monthly basis.
Questions:
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not applicable.
A: Not applicable.
Questions:
A: Yes. It will be posted to a related cost centers assigned in the Asset Master.
Q: 2) How often do you intend to post depreciation to the general ledger and to cost
accounting?
Q: 5) Do you want to show interest only in reports, or do you want to post interest directly to
cost accounting?
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you use the unit of production method for certain assets? If so, please specify.
Questions:
A: Yes. Assets under Construction. Expenses capitalization through Internal Orders settled
to AUC. Again settlement of AUCs to individual assets.
A: [ ]Yes
[X ]No
A: No.
Q: 5) Do you intend to use summary settlement or line item settlement for assets under
construction?
A: Fixed Asset.
A: No
Q: 8) What kind of information flow do you have for when an investment measure is
completed and the asset under construction is ready for settlement to the final asset?
A: No
Q: 10) What kind of information flow do you have for the settlement of down payments?
A: Not Applicable.
2.1.4.2. Post-capitalization
Questions:
Explanation: For example: - Someone neglected to capitalize an asset (if so, for what
reason?) - One amount on the asset should have a different depreciation start date than the
original asset - Other
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 2) How do you intend to post post-capitalization: - Gross, that is, with historical values
(APC and depreciation)- Net, that is, depreciation begins on the posting date using the net
book value.
A:
A: Yes. In case any expense is missed out. It will be done through sub-number concept.
2.1.4.3. Write-up
Questions:
Q: 1) Do the value of your assets appreciate, and if so, do your ledgers need to be
adjusted?
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 2) Describe the reasons for a fixed asset revaluation, the process used, and give
examples of the assets which are to be revaluated.
A: Not Applicable.
2.1.4.4. Reposting
Questions:
A: Yes. Transfer of assets from one company code to another company happens.
But through Purchase and sales by way of PO, GR with Book value.
Q: 2) Do you sometimes split an asset into one or more new assets? If so, please specify.
A: Not applicable.
Q: 4) Is the changing of an assigned cost center or a business area, for example, a reason
for a transfer posting?
A: May be.
Q: 5) How do you find out about necessary transfer postings in asset accounting?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to display insurance values for your fixed or leased assets?
A: Yes
A: No
A: Book Value.
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 6) Do you intend to use a separate asset valuation area for your insurance values?
A: Not applicable.
Q: 7) Is there any interaction between insurance of assets and your leasing agreements?
A: Not applicable.
A: Check.
Questions:
Q: 1) For what business reasons do you need to index your asset values (for example for
insurance replacement values, cost-accounting revaluation, inflation etc.)?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
2.1.5.3. Revaluation
Questions:
2.1.6. Retirements
2.1.6.1. Retirement
Questions:
Q: 3) How do you process retirement of a low value asset (e.g. retirement with zero value;
retirement with revenue; account assignment for retirement with revenue)?
Questions:
Q: 1) When retiring assets, is there ever a need to retire a large number of assets at the
same time?
A: No.
Q: 2) If yes, how many assets are normally concerned? Please provide an example with
documents.
A: Not applicable.
Questions:
Q: 1) What activities are included in the month-end process for asset accounting?
A: Only depreciation and analysis of AUC to capitalize the completed AUCs to final asset.
Q: 2) Which internal and external asset valuations belong to month-end closing process?
Please provide a sample of all required valuations.
A:
Q: 3) What activities are included in the year-end closing process for asset accounting?
Q: 4) Which internal and external asset valuations belong to year-end closing process?
Please provide a sample of all required valuations.
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have parallel valuation for your asset, e.g. for group valuation, for cost
accounting purposes or for legal reasons?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not applicable.
Q: 3) Is there a distinction necessary between book depreciation (for balance sheet) and tax
values (for a tax balance sheet)?
A: Yes the depreciation calculation will be different. Depreciation will be allowed only 50% of
current year APCs and Retirements.
Questions:
A: After auditing and reports are approved by the Board and shareholders.
Q: 2) Do you run the year-end closing process in asset accounting separate from general
ledger?
Q: 3) Are leased assets treated like any other fixed assets in year-end closing?
A: No.
Questions:
A: Yes
Q: 2) Describe the process for distributing planned depreciation. For example, do you
distribute based on asset class, cost centers or estimate the percentage depreciated?
A: On Cost Centers.
Q: 3) Do you simulate retirements of low value assets in your asset history sheet?
A: No.
A: Yes.
A: No.
Questions:
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Does it sometimes occur that you need to change depreciation methods or calculation
rules during the course of a fiscal year? If so, please provide an example and reason why a
change was necessary).
A: Depreciation method will not be changed. There is a possibility of change in the rate of
depreciation.
Q: 2) Does it sometimes occur that you introduce a new depreciation valuation area during
the course of a fiscal year? If so, please provide an example and reason why a new valuation
area was necessary).
A: Not applicable.
Questions:
A: No. Depreciation will be posted to cost center which has been assigned
in the respective Asset Master.
Q: 2) How often do you intend to post depreciation to the general ledger and to cost
accounting?
A: On a periodic/monthly basis.
A: NO
A: Normal Depreciation GL account which will be maintained for each asset class
separately.
Q: 5) Do you want to show interest only in reports, or do you want to post interest directly to
cost accounting?
A: NO.
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you conduct the physical inventory for fixed assets (e.g. manually, using
barcode scanner)?
A: Manually
A: Finance Department
Q: 3) What is the relation between the inventory number of an asset and the number of the
asset master record?
A: 1 to 1
Q: 4) Do you create inventory lists using the SAP R/3 System, or using a non-SAP system?
Questions:
Q: 1) What is the relationship between investment measures and fixed assets in the
planning process?
A:
A: Not activity-dependent.
Questions:
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic asset reporting?
A: Asset Registers, Asset Explorer. Cost Center wise Depreciation Cost. and other
reporting requirements will be informed in consultation with Core User.
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you need for Asset
Accounting?
Q: 4) Which kind of reports do you use to reconcile asset accounting with the general
ledger?
Q: 5) Are there any particular reports you would like for low value assets?
A: Manually.
Q: 7) By which organizational units (or combinations of units) are asset reporting functions
structured (for example, company, cost center etc)?
Q: 1) What kind of leasing agreements do you normally make? Operating leases (not
necessarily shown in Asset Accounting) or Capital Leases (Asset capitalized)?
A: Most of them are Operating Leases. only land is capital leases not capitalized.
Questions:
A: No
Q: 2) If not transferred between legal entities, do you create a new master record when
location changes?
A: NO.
A: Not Applicable.
A: No
Questions:
A: No
2.2.2. Receipts
2.2.2.1. Acquisition of Leased Asset
Questions:
Q: 1) Who is responsible for the acquisition of a leased asset? Who will negotiate the
leasing agreement?
A: HOD of Finance.
Q: 2) Describe the process for the acquisition of a leased asset, from the purchase order to
capitalization in Asset Accounting.
A: Presently this practice is not in force since we have only operational lease agreement.
Questions:
Q: 1) What are the methods of depreciation that you are currently using?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 5) Do you want to allow negative depreciation for certain assets or categories of assets?
If so, please specify.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 2) How often do you intend to post depreciation to the general ledger and to cost
accounting?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 5) Do you want to show interest only in reports, or do you want to post interest directly to
cost accounting?
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
A: No
Q: 2) Would a transfer of a leased asset affect the leasing agreement? If so, please
describe.
A: Not Applicable.
Questions:
Q: 3) In cases where changes to a leasing agreement are necessary, how many assets
would be affected?
Q: 5) What is the information flow in your enterprise regarding a change in asset location or
a change of an asset to a different organizational unit?
Questions:
A: For long term lease agreements the payment conditions may be monthly or yearly. But
for Operational lease the payments will be on monthly basis.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to display insurance values for your fixed or leased assets?
A: Yes
A: No
A: Book Value.
A: Not Applicable.
Q: 6) Do you intend to use a separate asset valuation area for your insurance values?
A: Not applicable.
Q: 7) Is there any interaction between insurance of assets and your leasing agreements?
A: Not applicable.
A: Check.
Questions:
Q: 1) For what business reasons do you need to index your asset values (for example for
insurance replacement values, cost-accounting revaluation, inflation etc.)?
A: Not Applicable.
A: Not Applicable.
2.2.5. Retirements
2.2.5.1. Retirement of Leased Asset
Questions:
Q: 2) What is your process for retiring leased assets? Please describe the postings.
Q: 3) Do you normally buy leased assets after expiration of the leasing contract or do you
return them to the lessor?
Questions:
Q: 1) What activities are included in the month-end process for asset accounting?
Q: 2) Which internal and external asset valuations belong to month-end closing process?
Please provide a sample of all required valuations.
A: Not Applicable
Q: 3) What activities are included in the year-end closing process for asset accounting?
A:
Q: 4) Which internal and external asset valuations belong to year-end closing process?
Please provide a sample of all required valuations.
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have parallel valuation for your asset, e.g. for group valuation, for cost
accounting purposes or for legal reasons?
A:
A:
Q: 3) Is there a distinction necessary between book depreciation (for balance sheet) and tax
values (for a tax balance sheet)?
A:
Questions:
A:
Q: 2) Do you run the year-end closing process in asset accounting separate from general
ledger?
A:
Q: 3) Are leased assets treated like any other fixed assets in year-end closing?
A:
Questions:
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
Q: 2) Describe the process for distributing planned depreciation. For example, do you
distribute based on asset class, cost centers or estimate the percentage depreciated?
A:
Q: 3) Do you simulate retirements of low value assets in your asset history sheet?
A:
A:
A:
Questions:
A:
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Does it sometimes occur that you need to change depreciation methods or calculation
rules during the course of a fiscal year? If so, please provide an example and reason why a
change was necessary).
A:
Q: 2) Does it sometimes occur that you introduce a new depreciation valuation area during
the course of a fiscal year? If so, please provide an example and reason why a new valuation
area was necessary).
A:
Questions:
A:
Q: 2) How often do you intend to post depreciation to the general ledger and to cost
accounting?
A:
A:
A:
Q: 5) Do you want to show interest only in reports, or do you want to post interest directly to
cost accounting?
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you conduct the physical inventory for fixed assets (e.g. manually, using
barcode scanner)?
A:
A:
Q: 3) What is the relation between the inventory number of an asset and the number of the
asset master record?
A:
Q: 4) Do you create inventory lists using the SAP R/3 System, or using a non-SAP system?
A:
Questions:
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic asset reporting?
A:
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you need for Asset
Accounting?
A:
Q: 4) Which kind of reports do you use to reconcile asset accounting with the general
ledger?
A:
Q: 5) Are there any particular reports you would like for low value assets?
A:
Q: 6) Are there any particular reports you run for leased assets?
A:
A:
Q: 8) By which organizational units (or combinations of units) are asset reporting functions
structured (for example, company, cost center etc)?
A: