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How Initial Mass Copy Works

Use Initial Mass Copy to initially populate your tax book by adding existing assets to a tax book.

Initial Mass Copy copies all the assets added to your corporate book before the end of the current tax fiscal year into the open accounting period in your tax book. The following graphic illustrates the Initial Mass Copy process. In the following example, your fiscal year is from January to December. Your corporate book open accounting period is February 1994 and your tax book open period is December 1993.

When using Initial Mass Copy for the first time in your tax book, you can run it as many times as necessary for the first period to copy all existing assets. When you rerun the process, Initial Mass Copy only looks at assets which it did not copy into the tax book during previous attempts, so no data is duplicated.

What Gets Copied

The current fiscal year in your tax book determines which assets Initial Mass Copy copies into your tax book. If the current fiscal year of your tax book is 1994, Initial Mass Copy copies all assets into your tax book as they appeared at the end of 1994 in your corporate book, even if 1995 is the current fiscal year of your corporate book. The fiscal year must be closed in the corporate book. Only run Initial Mass Copy for the first period of your tax book. For following periods in your tax book, run Periodic Mass Copy.

Initial Mass Copy does not copy assets retired before the end of that year or assets added after the end of that year. You do not need to copy any adjustments or partial retirements you performed before the end of the fiscal year. When you close this initial period, Oracle Assets calculates the net book value of your assets that have zero accumulated depreciation in the tax book, and opens the next period.

When the Initial Mass Copy program copies an asset into a tax book, the following basic financial information comes from the corporate book:

The remaining depreciation information comes from the default category information for your tax book according to the asset category and the date placed in service. You must set up your asset categories with default information for your tax book before you run Initial Mass Copy.

Since tax books share the category and assignments with their associated corporate book, you do not need to copy reclassifications or transfers from one book to another. Tax books also share production amounts with their associated corporate books for assets depreciating under units of production. Initial Mass Copy does not copy any transactions on CIP assets or expensed items. Finally, it does not copy revaluations.

For subcomponent assets, copy the parent asset first. Then copy the subcomponent asset, defaulting the asset life according to the subcomponent life rule you defined for the tax category and the parent asset life. You must set up the depreciation method for the subcomponent asset life before you can use the method and life. If your subcomponent asset uses straight-line depreciation, Oracle Assets sets up the depreciation method for the calculated life for you. If the depreciation method is not straight-line, and not already set up for the subcomponent life rule default, Oracle Assets uses the asset category default life.

See Also

How Periodic Mass Copy Works

Updating a Tax Book with Assets and Transactions

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