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.
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.
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.
On the other hand a receipt on account of sale of fixed assets is a capital receipt, for example, amount received on sale of a motor car by a person who is not a car dealer.
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.
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.
In ECC system the Transaction code AS91 is used to create asset master and also post asset values in asset accounting through 'Takeover values'.
To create a new asset, navigate to Accounting → Financial Accounting → Fixed Assets → Asset → Create → Asset or use Transaction code AS01.