SAP Note 23814 - Retirement of capital inv. measure -> error AK005

Symptom:

You cannot post a retirement on an asset under construction (AuC), which is created for a capital investment measure (order / WBS element), when an investment profile with line item allocation is used. The following error message is displayed:
AK005 'Asset is capital investment measure, transaction type not allowed'.

Other terms

ABAV, ABAD, ABAO, ABAVN, line item settlement

Reason and Prerequisites

If you use an investment profile with line item apportionment in the investment measure, and the investment profile is thereby settled based on the CO line items, you must assign a retirement to the CO line item that you want to dispatch. You cannot use the usual retirement transaction for this assignment.
It is not possible to post the respective asset under construction directly, since settlement information must be updated for every CO line item through the retirement (otherwise there would be differences between asset under construction values and CO line items that are to be settled in Transaction KOB5 or CJ70 / CJIC).

Solution

Up to Release 3.0E or release-independent workaround:
The CO line items, to which the retirement refers, must be finally settled using Transaction KOB5 and KO88 (order) or CJ70 and CJ88 (WBS element) to an asset under construction that is managed in totals. You can then post the retirement from this asset. The AuC managed in totals is used as a type of clearing account.
Alternatively, you can carry out the affected asset under construction line items to other receivers (GL account or CO receiver, for example, cost center) and not to an asset.

As of Release 3.0E:
For investment measures with line item apportionment, transactions are delivered that allow you to mark line items of the investment measure for a retirement and to post a retirement from the asset under construction for these items by means of a special settlement run.
The following steps are necessary:

1. Extending a display variant:

• Extending a display variant up to Release 3.1:

• Add the ABGKZ field "Retirement ID" to a display variant for the line item distribution transaction.

• Generate the display variant.

• You can also enter the ABGKZ field for a display variant as an allowed additional field.

• Extending a display variant (layout) as of Release 4.0:
  Use the layout management in the line item list (ALV list) to add the field 'Retirement indicator' to the display variant used. The field 'Retirement indicator' is only available in the transaction described below.

2. Marking line items for retirement:

• If your investment measure is an order, call Transaction KOB7. If it is a WBS element, call Transaction CJ7N.

• Enter the object and display the line items.

• Select the line items that are to be posted as retirement by the asset under construction. For the selected items, set the retirement ID by choosing "Edit -> Outflow -> Set Indicator".

• Save your selection.

3. Carrying out the settlement:

• Call Transaction KO8A for the order or CJ8A for the WBS element to carry out the retirment settlement. Internally, these settlements use processing type "R".

• Note that you can only carry out a retirement for line items, for which a periodic settlement to the asset under construction has already been made. You may have to carry out a periodic settlement to the asset under construction first. In this case, you can however check, whether the affected line item cannot simply be reversed in CO or retired by a preliminary settlement of the order or WBS element to the CO receiver or GL account.

• Up to Release 3.1I, you must give the asset value date. In a higher release, the asset value date is optional.

• First, carry out a test run and check the output values.