Record maintenance through a journal
When you post to a depreciation book in which the G/L integration is deactivated for maintenance costs, you must use a fixed assets journal. This approach might be useful when, for example, you want to record maintenance for a fixed asset from another source that can't be reflected in the general ledger. Leased warehouse premises would be an example of this situation.
The way that you post maintenance costs in an FA G/L journal is similar to the way that you would post in an FA journal. In an FA journal, you don't have to specify a balancing account.
You can record fixed assets transactions in the FA G/L journal or an FA journal, depending on whether the transactions are for financial reporting or for internal management.