ABSTRACT
While working on a consulting engagement, a supervisor in the team has given an assignment. The client is a regional trucking company. A new customer has approached the client with an opportunity that would require 120 trailers—20 more than the trucking company currently owns. The client is uncertain how long the relationship with the customer may last, but the deal has the potential for significant growth. The supervisor has asked a research to be conducted on leases and lease structure issues on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) website, in particular the current practice and thought related to direct financing, sales type, and operating leases. This paper is a memo addressed to the supervisor that summarizes
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As the deal has the potential for significant growth, five trailers could be safely brought on board under capital lease (transfer title to client at the end of the lease term of say five years). Irrespective of how long the relationship lasts these five new trailers could be a real asset to our client to boost productivity for a long time into the future, especially because trucking is their primary business. If the deal breaks midway, they could be used for other newer opportunities. The client may be encouraged to retain these new trailers and sell off the oldest ones in their fleet to maintain high standards of customer service, efficiency and productivity.
As operating leases are available under varying lease periods, our client should be advised to avail of the 48 months option for five trailers, the 36 months option for the next five trailers and the 24 months option for the remaining five trailers. This staggered plan will take care of nearly all uncertainties in this opportunity with the new customer. Depending on the volume of business flowing in from the new customer, our client will have the flexibility to honor the lease commitments or extend them as necessary. Our client will enjoy monthly savings of nearly 30%-50% over purchasing, because lease payments are based on the actual portion of usage of the trailer. They will also be able to show a better cash flow with lower
Therefore in this agreement the equipment is going to be partially financed by the lessor (Northwest) through a third-party financial institution (Lender) and act as a leveraged lease, wherein the lending company holds the title to the leased asset, while the lessor creates the agreement with the lessee (BNRR) and collects the payment for the use of the equipment. Therefore the lease in this case will be regarded as a financial decision for BNRR
Your first attempt at generating the financial statements is commendable. I have outlined and included an analysis and recommendation to deal with each issue you identified in your notes. Attached is an Excel file in which you will find the correcting entries, the required adjustments to the draft Financial Statements and additional details related to calculations for the lease agreement.
Agro-Chem, Inc. is a regional producer of agricultural chemicals based in Houston Texas that needs help making a lease versus purchase decision. By understanding the material presented, we will be able to come to a decision. However, after reviewing the information presented, there are a few problems that need to be investigated before finalizing our recommendation. Agro-Chem, Inc. chose to go with the financial manager’s idea of using a discount rate of 14% (average risk) to figure out the present value costs of leasing and purchasing even though the assistant treasure suggested a 12% (low risk) discount rate. Agro-Chem, Inc. brought in the company’s CPA to help settle the debate
To be able to classify the lease as a sales-type or direct financing lease Lambert Company must meet one or more of the following criteria:
The determination of whether an arrangement is or contains a lease is based on the substance of the arrangement and requires an assessment of whether the fulfilment of the arrangement is dependent on the use of a specific asset or assets and whether the arrangement
The investing activities showed a reduction in the cost of acquisition of equipment and favorable lease rights, but an increase in short-term investments. This reduction is the result of the leases providing a minimum annual rent that adjusts to set levels during the lease term. Approximately 52% of the leases provide additional rent based on percentage of sales to be paid when designated levels are achieved. The increase in short-term investments center around expansion and remodeling costs.
Although many variations of lease financing are available, potential lessees should be familiar with two general types of leases: the full payout lease and the fair market value (FMV) lease. The choice of lease is based upon the lessees’ long-term plans for the asset involved. A full payout lease is one in which the present value of the payment stream equals the acquisition cost of the asset. Options at the end of the lease typically include return, renewal, or purchase often for $1. The lessee is able to deploy and utilize the equipment, while the periodic payments of the full payout lease ease the financial burden of making a large IT acquisition. This option is a good choice when future ownership is desired, the dollar value of the equipment is substantial, the expected productive life of the assets is longer than five years, and the flexibility of spreading out payments would
4. How might the ED’s proposed lessor accounting influence, if at all, the lessor’s preferences for particular lease provisions in the BonneSante leases?
The paperwork is needed so that the inventory can be check and figured out the true value of the inventory. A better way at looking any logical justification for cost or market inventory valuation is that a stock of items is necessary to expedite production and sales. If inventory become obsolescence, goes through physical deterioration, and price declines occur, or even if the stock when finally utilized cannot be expected to realize its stated cost plus a normal profit margin. Reduction in inventory value is an additional cost of the goods produced and sold during the time that they decline value occurred
As a team, we chose to look at the lease purchase model for the consumers which is a part of our KPI’s, to improve profit gain from long-term leasing options. Dictionary.com states that a leasing “a contract or instrument conveying the property to another for a specified period or a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.” Aarons pride themselves as “(NYSE: AAN), a leading omnichannel provider of lease-purchase solutions.” (“Press Release-Aaron’s,” n.d.) The publicly traded company this group has selected is Aaron’s. Our team is defining the purpose of Aaron’s Rental Company as, “Business analytics are purposeful when we know why we create the information and perform the analytic
First, based on the vision of the company which is to sell the business and achieving the targeted returns in the long term. Logically, long-term leases allow for long-term financial planning and that depending on the terms of the lease which will also allow the company to calculate the rental expenses over the long-run. Since the interest expenses are increased every year, thus, the company should act towards being highly leveraged. The company forecasted growth rate would
What are the key takeaways to remember when determining future lease versus buy decisions of this magnitude?
Welcome back. Last week we looked at underwriting a $250K high yield transaction through the eyes of an independent lessor. Our existing customer, RedBet LLC, had properly paid off two short term leases with us, leaving us a small exposure on a third lease (total exposure had been $320K). RedBet is now coming back to finance of $250K in vacuum tank trailers, a sale that is very important to our preferred vendor. RedBet is an oilfield servicing firm headquartered in New Mexico. We asked, “Would you do this deal? Why or why not?”
Year 1 deals are anticipated at $55,568 taking into account a moderate improvement of the business through catching more customer base each month. I construct these anticipated figures with respect to the inclination to buy a range, putting different components into contemplations, for example, football games on the primary road and having the capacity to get more customer base from my rivals. To ensure that the working capital accessible is reliably adequate in the primary year, the main least sum will be drawn from the business.
The firm signed a long-term lease with PennState Leasing last year for trucks where one of these trucks will be available for use on the new project in month 1, two for month 2, three for month 3 and one for month 4. The long-term leasing