SAP Note 19264 - Expired useful life in the asset master record

Symptom:

The expired useful life in the master record seems to be incorrect.

Cause and prerequisites

Users did not understand the field in the asset master record.

Solution
The asset master record displays the expired useful life at the end of the last closed fiscal year. This value is taken from the year-related ANLC segment.
If the asset has depreciation areas with different fiscal year closing dates, the first fiscal year to have been closed applies in all the areas.
If the asset is created on 01/01/1993 and the last closed fiscal year is 1993, that is, 1994 and 1995 are still open, the expired useful life in the master record is one year both for 1994 and 1995. The AW01 display, however, refers to the fiscal year displayed there. In our example, the expired useful life would be one year for 1994 and two years for 1995.
The ANLC segment relevant for the expired useful life is created for the new year by the fiscal year change program RAJAWE01. The display of the expired useful life in the master record for this year is determined by the year-end closing program RAJABS00 which updates the closed fiscal year.
Thus, if RAJAWE has been run for 1994, you see a useful life of two years in AW01. In AS03, it is still one year. The expired useful life in the ANLC segment for 1995, however, has already been changed to two years. If RAJABS has already been run for 1994, the expired useful life in the master record which is displayed with AS03 is now also two years.