LEASES Flashcards
To be able to master the concepts of leases.
What are the four circumstances that a lease is under a finance lease?
T - Transfer of ownership
O - Option to purchase the asset
M - Material lease term
S - Substantial PV of Lease Payments
S - Specialized Nature (only lessee can use without major modifications)
What makes the option to purchase the asset a finance lease?
When it is reasonably certain that the lessee will exercise the option to purchase the asset.
What is a material lease term?
That is if the lessee decides to lease an asset for at least 75% of the asset’s Useful Life.
How do you identify a substantial present value of lease payments?
The present value must be at least 90% of the FV.
Who recognizes depreciation expense on an operating lease?
Lessor
How do you treat the initial direct cost paid by the lessor?
- Added to Carrying Amount of the Asset
- Expensed over the LEASE TERM
How do you treat the initial direct cost paid by the lessee?
Ignore
What are the costs that are incurred by the lessor to maintain the asset?
Executory Costs
How do you treat executory costs?
Expensed as incurred
How do you recognize refundable security deposits?
Liabilities
The extra consideration that the lessee gives the lessor in order to rent an asset that has other competing lessees.
Lease bonus
How do you recognize lease bonus?
- Unearned revenue (liability)
- Amortized income over the lease term
When the lease term starts at the middle of the period (ex: March 1), what is the main treatment of the following:
- Rent Income
- Initial Direct Costs
- Executory Costs
- Rent Income: multiplied by 10/12
- Initial Direct Costs: multiplied by 10/12
- Executory Costs: whole amount because it’s expensed as incurred
The type of finance lease that is merely engaged in the financing business.
Direct Finance Lease
What are the two types of finance lease?
Direct Finance Lease
Sales Type Lease