Hi,

Yes, this is the default behavior in Odoo 16. When a depreciation entry is created for an asset with an analytic account, Odoo assigns the analytic account to both the debit (expense) and credit (asset) lines.

However, from a cost accounting and analytic reporting perspective, the analytic account should only apply to the debit (expense) line. The credit (asset reduction) side is not relevant for analytics and can cause inflated or misleading reports.

Currently, Odoo does not offer a built-in configuration to change this. A few workarounds:

    Manually remove the analytic account from the credit line after posting the entry.

    Apply analytic filters in reporting to focus only on expense accounts.

    If needed, consider a small customization to restrict analytic accounts only to the debit line of depreciation entries.

Hope it helps.