CASE: TWO EUROPEAN HOTEL GROUPS CONTENT 1 Financial statements ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Impact of operating leases ............................................................................................ 3 1.2 Depreciation rates ......................................................................................................... 3 1.2.1 Accor ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.2.2 NH …show more content…
This is not mentioned in the financial statement of Accor. We only know that most leases are signed on more than 9 years. -‐ The way of determining the purchase option price is not comparable. The financial statement of Accor mentions that the purchase option price corresponds to either a pre-agreed percentage of the owners original investments or the property’s market value when the option is exercised. Although we know that 12% of the leases from NH Hoteles include a purchase options, nothing regarding purchase options is stated in the financial statement. -‐ The minimum future operating leases are not comparable. Accor doesn’t include the lease agreements lasting less than 3 years. NH Hoteles does include all the lease agreements. Furthermore Accor mentions that they have taken the closing exchange rate in account for future leases in foreign countries, this is not the case for NH Hoteles. Finally, Accor doesn’t mention if they have calculated the present value or not whereas NH Hoteles records the operating leases as the present value of the future lease payments using an interest rate in line with the weighted cost of capital and they additionally include guarantee fees commitments. 1.2 Depreciation rates 1.2.1 • • • • 1.2.2 • • • • • Accor Buildings and capitalized construction-related costs: 50 years for upscale and midscale hotels; 35 years for economy hotels Building improvements, fixtures
Since, such an agreement will be regarded as an Operating Lease and not a Capital Lease; this lease will not be reported on the company’s balance sheet. Keeping the lease off the balance sheet would make our financial ratios appear more attractive (lower debt/asset ratio) than otherwise. Hence, such a setup provides the advantage of financing the deal as an off-Balance Sheet item.
Lambert Hotel is in second rounds of negotiations with AAA HotelCo of a possible merger between the two companies. Lambert is a strong brand with a luxurious and upscale tres comfortable Michelin rating, and AAA is rated at mid-scale category of equivalent ranking. Culturally, there is a difference in the approach to business mergers. Time wise, Lambert is eager to close the merger with AAA or consider the alternative value that is a safe bet.
9. What is the Cost of Debt, before and after taxes? Using the interest rate for the largest debt…cannot use the weighted interest rate for the debt since it includes capital lease obligations with no stated rate and could not find in the notes to the financials. 5.4% After tax cost is .054 x (1-.36) = 3.5%
Commercial Capital Corporation is the leasing subsidiary of a major regional bank and offers a lease at 12.75 million per year for 4 years. The first payment is due upon delivery and installation. The rest of the payments are due each subsequent year at the beginning of the year. This cost includes the same service contract as what would have been obtained with purchase.
(1) The payment is equal to 5% of gross rental income earned by the partnership, which is earned regardless of the overall net income of the partnership for the year.
A2: Jack should recognize the $1.2 million as rental expense along with all the other lease payments ratably over the 10 years (lease term of the new agreement). It should initially be accounted for as prepaid lease payments and then be recognized as lease expense over the next 10 years as par. 840-10-35-4 states, “If at any time the lessee and lessor agree to change the provisions of the lease, other than by renewing the lease or extending its term, in a manner that would have resulted in a different classification of the lease under the lease classification criteria in paragraphs 840-10-25-1 and 840-10-25-42 had the changed terms been in effect at lease classification inception, the revised agreement shall be considered as a new agreement over its term, and the criteria in paragraphs 840-1025-1 and 840-10-25-42 shall be applied for purposes of classifying the new lease. Likewise, except when a guarantee or penalty is rendered inoperative as described in paragraphs 840-30-35-8 and 840-30-35-23, any action that extends the lease beyond the expiration of the existing lease term, such as the exercise of a lease renewal option other than those already included in the lease term, shall be considered as a new agreement, which shall be classified according to the guidance in section 840-10-25. Changes in estimates (for example, changes in estimates of the economic life or of
9. Assuming that Santa Corporation was required to capitalize its operating lease how would the company’s
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