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 an asset sale, the seller retains possession of the legal entity and the buyer purchases individual assets of the company, such as equipment, fixtures, leaseholds, licenses, goodwill, trade secrets, trade names, telephone numbers, and inventory.
A held for sale asset is shown on the Statement of Financial Position as a current asset. When the asset is reclassified, depreciation or amortization ceases because it is no longer being held as a productive asset with future benefit beyond its recoverable amount.
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.
NAST is used for message status. it is a system table. it contains 82 fields.
SAP Host Agent is an agent that can accomplish several life-cycle management tasks, such as operating system monitoring, database monitoring, system instance control and provisioning.
SU3 is user specific, there you can set your user settings (address data, default data, parameters).
Accounting will enter and maintain the fixed asset in SAP. Transaction code, AS03, is used to display an asset master record. You would perform this procedure to verify the location of an asset.
To create a new asset, navigate to Accounting → Financial Accounting → Fixed Assets → Asset → Create → Asset or use Transaction code AS01.