A construction-in-process (CIP) asset is an asset you construct over a period of time. You create and maintain your CIP assets as you spend money for raw materials and labor to construct them. Since a CIP asset is not yet in use, it does not depreciate. When you finish building the CIP asset, you can place it in service and begin depreciating it.

You can track CIP assets in Oracle Assets, or you can track detailed information about your CIP assets in Oracle Projects. If you use Oracle Projects to track CIP assets, you do not need to track them in Oracle Assets.Use the Asset Key to Track CIP Projects.The asset key is a set of key identifying information, such as project name and project number, that you define for each CIP asset. Use the asset key to group and track your CIP assets with common key words so you can find them easily for inquiry or transactions.

Acquire and Build CIP Assets
Create CIP assets using Mass Additions or manual additions.
Oracle Assets identifies invoices with distributions to CIP clearing accounts in Oracle Payables, and creates mass additions from them. You can create new CIP assets from your mass additions, or add them to existing assets. You can also add non-invoiced expenses, such as labor cost, to your CIP assets. You can perform transfers or adjustments on your CIP assets if necessary.

Automatically Adding CIP Assets to Tax Books
You can can set up Oracle Assets to automatically copy CIP assets to a tax book when a CIP asset is added to the corporate book.

To enable CIP assets to be automatically added to a tax book:
1. Navigate to the Book Controls window.
2. Query the tax book to which you want CIP assets copied.
3. Choose Accounting Rules from the poplist in the Book Controls window.
4. In the Tax Rules region, check the Allow CIP Assets check box.
5. Save your work.

Conditions When CIP Assets are Copied to Tax Books
After you set up Oracle Assets to automatically add CIP assets to your tax book, all CIP assets you add to your corporate book will automatically be added to your tax book at the same time. When you capitalize these CIP assets in your corporate book, the same assets will automatically be capitalized in your tax book, even if the corporate and tax books are in different accounting periods.
Important: If your corporate and tax books' accounting periods are not in the same fiscal year, and you add and capitalize a CIP asset in the corporate book, the same CIP asset may be added and capitalized in a different fiscal year in the tax book.

If you checked Allow CIP Assets and later you uncheck it, you may have CIP assets that were automatically added to the tax book while Allow CIP Assets was checked. Although Allow CIP Assets is no longer checked, those CIP assets in the tax book will be automatically capitalized when the same assets are capitalized in the corporate book.

Performing Transactions on CIP Assets
Although CIP assets can now appear in your tax books, you cannot perform any transactions directly to CIP assets in tax books. You can only perform transactions on CIP assets in your corporate book, and these transactions will automatically be replicated to the tax book.
Note: You cannot view CIP assets in tax books from the Asset Workbench. You can view this information in the View Financial Information window.

Place Finished Assets in Service
You capitalize CIP assets when you are ready to place them in service. You can capitalize or reverse capitalize a single asset or a group of assets.
When you capitalize an asset, Oracle Assets changes the asset type from CIP to Capitalized, changes the date placed in service to the date you enter, sets the cost to the sum of all source lines for the asset, and re-defaults the depreciation rules from the asset category. Oracle Assets creates an Addition transaction for an asset you added in a prior period or changes the CIP Addition transaction to an Addition for an asset you added in the current period.

When you reverse a capitalization, Oracle Assets changes the asset type from Capitalized back to CIP and leaves the date placed in service unchanged. It changes the Addition transaction to an Addition/Void for an asset you added in a prior period or changes the Addition transaction to a CIP Addition for an asset you added in the current period. It also creates a CIP Reverse transaction for assets you capitalized in a prior period.