New asset number for assets moved to a second corporate book?

Good morning,

We are evaluating the possibility of segregating our assets in to separate corporate books to make it easier for our operational units to assign and re-assign assets throughout their operational unit.  After reading prior posts, I'm aware that there is no standard Oracle functionality to achieve this. If we use the the Mass Additions Web ADI or Asset Additions API to as suggested and then adjust the cost of the items to zero in the original corporate book, is there a way for the asset to maintain it's original asset number in the new book?

Kind regards.