Leases Based off of the readings from our text, notwithstanding of the legal form of the agreement, a lease is accounted for as either a rental agreement or a purchase/sale supplemented by debt financing depending on the leasing prearrangement. However, the amount of professional judgment and ethical duty needed to determine the different type of leases, firms easily can hide the real interworking of their balance sheet. When a firm is accounting for leases, an operating lease records no asset…

standard No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) to the current lease standard. Under the new standard, leases with terms of greater than 12 months be shown as a right-of-use lease asset and a leased liability on the balance sheet. The key disparity between preceding Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) and Topic 842 is that the lessee should recognize right-of-use leases as assets and lease liabilities, for those leases that have a and were previously classified as operating leases. The central principle…

To Lease or Not to Lease There is always much debate around the subject or owning vs. leasing, anything. We all immediately assume owning is the right choice because why lease it when you can own it, right? Or maybe wrong? I will further discuss the advantages and disadvantage of leasing a medical office, medical equipment and office furniture. Medical Office or Headquarters Advantages of leasing a medical office over owning is freeing up working capital. With the money that is freed up from…

When you as the property manager look at a commercial lease for the first time, it is wise to use some form of checklist for the process. That will prevent you making mistakes and or overlooking the essential elements of occupancy that impact the property for the landlord and the tenant. Every lease will be unique to the particular occupancy, the property location, the focus of the landlord, and the operations of the tenancy. We have listed below some of the key issues to incorporate into the due…

Sable sells and leases equipment to its customers. * Sable entered into a contract with Buildit Co. leasing a bulldozer for construction. * The lease term is 10 years and the economic and useful life of the bulldozer is 15 years. * Annual lease payments due at the end of every year will be $16,000. * Buildit is responsible for maintenance, insurance, and tax payments arising from the lease. * The residual value of the bulldozer at the end of the lease term is estimated…

Leases are an arranged contract in which the lessor (the owner) provides the lessee (the user) the right to use an asset (car, apartment, equipment, etc.) for a specified time period. To be able to do this, the lessee must agree to make arranged periodic payments during the term of the lease. An example of this would be like an apartment lease it’s a typical rental agreement in which the basic rights and responsibilities of ownership are retained by the lessor; the lessee merely uses the asset (apartment…

LEASE THIS LEASE is made on April 25, 2016. BETWEEN the Tenant(s) TOM AND SONIA SMITH, whose address is 123 Main Street, Northampton, Pennsylvania, referred to as the “Tenant” or “Tenant(s) or “Tenets’”. AND the Landlord JAMES STECKER, whose address is 123 Main Street, Northampton, Pennsylvania, referred to as the “Landlord”. The word “Tenant(s)” means each “Tenant” named above. 1. Property. The Tenant(s) are to pay a monthly stipend which shall be referred to as rent and the Landlord agrees…

APARTMENT LEASE WHEREAS, DON A. TRUMP is the owner of certain property, more fully described as a WHITE HOUSE, located in the City of Washington. District of Columbia; and WHEREAS, BERNARD SANDERS has high hopes and wishes to reside in the WHITE HOUSE owned by TRUMP; and
 WHEREAS, TRUMP and SANDERS, (together the PARTIES) wish to enter into an agreement to memorialize the terms upon which SANDERS will be allowed to occupy the WHITE HOUSE, the parties intend to be bound by the following terms and…

found from the IAS 17; the lease is defined that “A lease is an arrangement whereby the lessor coveys to the lessee in return for a payment or series of payments the right to use an asset for an agreed period of time”. (IAS 17, 2003). There are two types of lease: finance lease and operating lease. The following parts will identify them separately and accounting treatments will be discussed in lessees’ and lessors’ aspect. Firstly, it is the finance lease and it is a lease that transfers substantially…

ACCT 3303 | CAPITAL LEASE vs. OPERATING LEASE | | Dr. Serge Ryno ACCT 3303 December 2, 2011 Capital Lease vs. Operating Lease Firms often choose to lease long-term assets rather than buy them for a variety of reasons including the tax benefits that are greater to the lessor than the lessees and leases offer more flexibility in terms of adjusting to changes in technology and capacity needs. Lease payments create the same kind of obligation that interest payments on debt create, and…