SAP Note 23740 - Negative list: Variable lease payments

Symptom:

You cannot manage non-periodic lease payments (such as special payments) or changes to lease payments during the life of the leasing agreement.

Further negative points include:

• No flexible installments.

• Down payments/final settlements are not taken into account.

• Posting to vendor account occurs for area 01 only.

• Opening entries with affiliated company are not possible.

• Posting the interest paid occurs for area 01 only.

• Tax is not taken into account when the posting to vendor account is created.

• The installment allocation to interest and repayment portions is executed using the depreciation key.

• No different capitalization amounts (capitalization with the present value).

• The useful life and contract duration must correspond. Changes during the life of the leasing agreement are not possible.

• The contract start date, depreciation start date and interest start date must correspond and must not be in a future fiscal year.

• The purchase price option is taken into account for the calculation of the present value.

• The scrap value is not taken into account for the calculation of the present value.

• Shutdown periods are not taken into account.

• The "new depreciation calculation" is not used in combination with the leasing function. If the present value is determined in the asset master record, the logic of the old depreciation calculation is used.

• The leasing start date must be at the start of the month. The system calculates from the start of the month even if another leasing start date is selected.

• Partial transfer of a leased asset

In general, no value adjustment is determined for interest for intracompany transfers. For the issuing fixed asset, this means that interest on the retirement is determined from the relationship of the transfer posting amount to the entire APC. No prior year acquisitions are determined for interest.

However, the proportion of interest for target assets is newly determined according to the settings of the depreciation key. In almost all cases, there may therefore be differences when comparing the interest for the issuing transfer with the interest for the acquiring transfer.

SAP does not recommend partial transfers, but instead canceling the original acquisition, and activating the individual assets separately.

Other terms

Leasing, LEAS, negative list, LZINS

Reason and Prerequisites

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Solution
You can use a new fixed asset for changes to regular payments during the life of the leasing agreement. In the case of fixed assets with the capital lease method, you must perform a retirement on the previous fixed asset beforehand (this procedure is described in the user guide).
Important: There may be differences between the cash value calculations and the display on a fixed asset (which is not possible).