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C10 – Ward Co. – Operating Lease or Finance Lease – TBS FWB 0320 Problem/Solution Ward Co. has the following rental agreements. You have been asked to advise the accounting treatment for each of these items. Indicate whether each of these agreements is an operating lease or a finance lease. 1. Ward rents equipment for three years for $20,000 per year. The equipment is valued at $200,000. At the end of the rental term the equipment must be returned to the dealer. – Operating lease 2. Ward rents equipment for five years for $80,000 per year. At the end of the rental term Ward can purchase the equipment for $500. At the date the contract was signed the equipment had a value of $300,000. At the end of five years, it is expected the equipment will have a value of $42,000. – Finance lease 3. Ward received six months of free rent on an office building it was leasing for two years. Rent is normally $1,500 per month. – Operating lease 4. Ward rents equipment for eight years. The present value of the lease payments is $80,000. The market value of the equipment is $90,000 and the useful life of the equipment is ten years. – Finance lease 5. Ward rents equipment for ten years. At the end of the lease Ward receives title to the equipment. – Finance lease 6. Ward rents equipment for seven years. The life of the equipment is ten years. The fair value of the equipment is $100,000. The present value of the minimum lease payments is $85,000. – Operating lease 1
C10 – Ward Co. – Operating Lease or Finance Lease – TBS FWB 0320 Problem/Solution Rationale : 1. Operating lease. Does not meet any of the four criteria. 2. Finance lease. The lease has a bargain purchase option. 3. Operating lease. The building is only leased for two years, and it is doubtful that it is greater than 75% of the building’s economic life. 4. Finance lease. The present value of the lease payments is not greater than 90% of the fair market value of the leased asset; however, the rental term is 80%, which is greater than 75% of the economic life of the asset. 5. Finance lease. Transfer of title. 6. Operating lease. The lease is not greater than 75% of the economic life of the asset, and the present value of the minimum lease payments is not greater than 90% of the fair market value of the asset. 2
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