You run the balance carry forward for your company code. When looking at the log you see there is an error with regards to Asset Accounting. What is the cause of the error?

Question

Options

• AYou have not run the settlement for your assets under construction.
• BYou have incomplete asset master records.
• CYou have not closed the previous fiscal year.
• DYou have not posted depreciation completely.

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  74% (28)
• C
  13% (5)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

Incomplete asset master records (B) cause the balance carry forward error because the program must read and process every asset's master data to correctly transfer closing balances into the new fiscal year - missing required fields (such as depreciation key, asset class, or useful life) mean the system cannot compute what to carry forward, so it throws an error and halts.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (AuC settlement): Unsettled assets under construction generate their own separate warning/error during year-end closing, not during the balance carry forward run itself.
• C (Previous fiscal year not closed): Failing to close the prior fiscal year in Asset Accounting (transaction AJAB) is a prerequisite issue caught before carry forward, and its error message points to the closing step, not to master data.
• D (Depreciation not posted completely): Incomplete depreciation posting also blocks year-end closing (AJAB), not the carry forward - the system would have stopped you at the closing step first.

Memory tip: Think "carry forward = carry data forward" - if the master data is broken, there's nothing valid to carry. Associate "incomplete master records" with any SAP process that reads asset data at its core.

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