How to record disposal of assets Calculate the asset's depreciation amount. The first step is to ensure you have the accurate value of the asset recorded at the time of its disposal. Record the sale amount of the asset. Credit the asset. Remove all instances of the asset from other books. Confirm the accuracy of your work.
First, add the depreciation value to the sale value to find the total value that you extracted from the asset being sold. Subtract the initial value at the time you gained the asset from the extracted value to determine the net gain or loss for the asset.
In this posting transaction, you have to enter the revenue posting (debit A/R, credit revenue from asset sale) first, and then enter the asset retirement. An indicator in the posting transaction specifies that the system posts the asset retirement with the revenue posting.
Asset Retirement with transaction code ABAVN To retire an asset go to Navigation: SAP Easy Access -> SAP Menu -> Accounting -> Financial accounting -> Fixed Asset -> Posting -> Retirement -> Asset Retirement by Scrapping. Alternatively: Transaction code ABAVN.
In ECC system the Transaction code AS91 is used to create asset master and also post asset values in asset accounting through 'Takeover values'.
When we scrap an asset, there is no revenue associated with a retirement. To retire an asset by scrapping, we'll enter transaction code ABAVN.
It may be recorded in its total revenue for a given period when a company reports a gain such as the sale of an asset. Total revenue includes operating revenue, which is sales from primary business activities, as well as non-operating activities in this way.