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Lessee

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Has right to use specific property for specified period of
Time under lease agreement

Makes rental payments of lease term to lessor

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Lease

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Contractual agreement between lessor and lessee

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Lessor

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Owns property being leased

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3 general categories of lessors that own property?

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1 banks

2 captive leasing companies

3 independents

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What 2 advantages to banks have with leasing?

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1 have low cost funds which give them advantage of being
Able to purchase assets at less cost than competitors

2 leasing transactions are standardized, so banks don’t need
To innovate to structure lease arrangements

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Captive leasing companies

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Subsidiaries whose primary business is performing leasing
Operations for parent company

Ex. IBM Global Financing, Ford Motor Credit

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Advantage captive leasing companies have?

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Point of sale advantage in finding leasing customers

Can quickly develop lease financing arrangement b/c has
Product knowledge that gives advantage when financing
Parent’s product

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Independents (lessors) what are they good at?

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Developing innovative contracts for lessees

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Independents (lessors), what are they starting to do?

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Act as captive finance companies for some companies

That don’t have leasing subsidiary

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Leasing advantage: 100% financing at fixed rates

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Signed without requiring any money Down for lessee
Helping lessee conserve scarce cash

Lease payments often remain fixed protecting lessee
Against inflation and increases in cost of money

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Leasing advantage: protection against obsolescence (lessee)

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Risk of obsolescence is reduced by leasing of lessee as

Risk of residual value is passed to lessor

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Leasing advantage: protection against obsolescence (lessor)

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Charges higher rent payments to lessee

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Leasing advantage: flexibility

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Duration of lease can be tailored as short term or span
The entire time for expected economic life of asset

Payment may be fixed or variable (pegged to interest rate
Or inflation), enabling lessor to recover cost of asset with fair
Return

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Lease term

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Duration of lease

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Leasing advantage: less costly financing

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Claim tax benefits if in lower tax bracket (start up companies)

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Leasing advantage: tax advantages

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Synthetic lease arrangement allows companies to capitalize
And depreciate a leased asset for tax purposes

While keeping it off the balance sheet

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Leasing advantage: off balance sheet financing

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Keeping debt off balance sheet to not affect financial ratios
Adds to company’s borrowing capacity

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Executory contract

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Requires continuing performance by both parties

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4 views on capitalizing leases

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1 don’t capitalize any leased assets
2 capitalize leases that are similar to installment purchases
3 capitalize all long term leases
4 capitalize firm leases where penalty for nonperformance
Is substantial

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Firm leases

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Non cancelable contract, unlikely to avoid without severe

Penalty

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FASB: preferred lease capitalization approach

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Capitalization approach when lease is similar to installment
Purchased and non cancelable

Capitalize a lease that transfers substantially all benefits
And risks of property ownership provided lease is noncancelable

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Noncancelable

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Can only cancel lease contract only upon outcome of some

Remote contingency

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How does a lessee capitalize a lease

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Records asset and liability generally equal to present value

Of rental payments

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In order to record a lease as a capital lease, the lease must…

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Be noncancelable

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4 capitalization criterial lessee
1 lease transfers ownership of property to lessee 2 lease contains bargain purchase option 3 lease term is equal to 75% or more of estimated economic Life of property 4 present value of minimum lease payments (excluding Executory costs) equals or exceeds 90 percent of fair Value of leased property
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Operating leases
Leases that do not meet any of the four criteria for | capitalization
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Bargain purchase option
Allows lessee to purchase leased property for price significantly lower than property's expected FV at date Option becomes exercisable
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Bargain renewal option
Allows lessee to renew lease for rental that is lower than | expected fair rental at date option becomes exercisable
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What 4 items do minimum lease payments include?
1 minimum rental payments 2 guaranteed residual value 3 penalty for failure to renew or extend lease 4 bargain purchase option
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Residual value
Estimated fair value of leased property at end of lease term
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Guaranteed residual value
Either determinable amount company will pay at end of Lease to purchase asset Or amount company/or 3rd party guarantees will be realized When asset is returned
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Third party guarantors
Insurers who for a fee assume risk of deficiencies in leased | Asset residual value
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Unguaranteed residual value
Estimated residual value exclusive of any portion guaranteed
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Executory costs for tangible assets
Incur insurance, maintenance and tax expenses during | Their economic life
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Incremental borrowing rate When is it not used?
Discount rate used to compute present value of minimum lease payments 2) Not used when implicit rate of lessor is known
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Leases: effective interest method
Used to allocate each lease payment btw/ interest and | Principal
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For a capitalized asset and recorded obligation at present value, the depreciation of the asset and discharge of the obligation are...
Independent accounting processes
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Operating method (lessee)
``` Rent expense (and associated liability) accrues day by day To lessee as it uses the property ``` Lessee assigns rent to periods benefitting from use of Asset and ignores (in accounting) commitments to make Future payments
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Disclosure of operating leases
Company must disclose all operating leases that have | Noncancelable lease terms in excess of 1 year
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Why does the business community look negatively on capitalizing leases? 4 reasons
1 debt to equity increases 2 rate of return on total assets decreases 3 violation of loan covenants 4 affects compensation received by owners (ex. Stock Compensation plan)
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3 following differences occur if using capital lease instead of operating lease
1 increase in debt reported 2 increase in total assets (especially long lived assets) 3 lower income early in life of lease (therefore lower retained Earnings)
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3 advantages of leasing to the lessor?
1 interest revenue 2 tax incentives 3 high residual value
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Leasing advantage for lessor: Interest revenue
Provides competitive interest margins
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Leasing advantage for lessor: Tax incentives
Usually, Companies that lease can't use tax benefit of asset, But leasing allows them to transfer tax benefits to another Party (the lessor) In exchange for a lower rental rate on leased asset
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Leasing advantage for lessor: high residual value
Return of property at end of lease term, the more value | The higher the profit
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3 classifications of leases by lessor
1 operating leases 2 direct financing leases 3 sales type leases
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4 Capitalization criteria for lessor Group 1
1 lease transfers ownership of property to lessee 2 lease contains a bargain purchase option 3 lease term equal to 75% or more of economic life of leased Property 4 present value of minimum lease payments (excluding Executory costs) equals or exceeds 90% fair value leased Property
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2 Capitalization criteria (lessor) Group II
1 collectibility of payments required from lessee reasonably predictable 2 no key uncertainties surround amount of unreimbursable Costs yet to be incurred by lessor under the lease
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How many conditions under Group 1 and Group II or capitalization criteria requirements must be met for lessor to classify arrangement as direct financing lease or sales type lease?
Both criteria for group II and 1 or more criteria for group 1
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Direct financing lease vs. sales type lease
Sales type lease involves manufacturer's or dealer's profit Direct financing lease does not
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Manufacturer's or dealer's profit (or loss)
Evidenced by difference between fair value of leased | Property at inception of lease and lessor's book value
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The distinction for the lessor between a direct financing lease and a sales type lease is the presence or absence of...
A manufacturer's or dealer's profit (or loss)
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Lessors classify and account for all leases that do not qualify as direct-financing or sales-type leases as...
Operating leases
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Direct financing leases
Financing of an asset purchased by the lessee
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Lease receivable (direct financing leases)
Lessor records "lease receivable" instead of leased asset
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Operating method: rental receipts recorded by lessor
Recorded as rental revenue
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6 lease arrangements that cause unique accounting problems
``` 1 residual values 2 sales type leases (lessor) 3 bargain purchase options 4 initial direct costs 5 current vs. Noncurrent classification 6 disclosure ```
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Guaranteed residual value
Lessee agrees to make up any deficiency below stated Amount that lessor realizes in residual value at end of lease Term
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3 sales type lease terms
1 lease receivable 2 sales price of the asset 3 cost of goods sold
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Sales-type lease terms: lease receivable AKA net investment
Present value of minimum lease payments | + PV of any Unguaranteed residual value
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Sales-type lease term: Sales price of asset
Present value of minimum lease payment
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Sales-type lease term: cost of goods sold
Cost of asset to lessor less PV of any Unguaranteed residual | Value
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Sales type lease: gross profit
Gross profit amount on sale of asset is same whether | Guaranteed or Unguaranteed residual value is involved
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If the bargain purchase option exists the lessee must...
Increase the PV of minimum lease payments by the PV | Of the option price
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Accounting treatment of computation of depreciation: bargain purchase option vs. guaranteed residual value
Guaranteed residual value: depreciates asset over lease term Bargain purchase option: depreciates economic life of asset
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2 types of initial direct costs (lessor)
1 incremental direct costs 2 internal direct costs
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Incremental direct costs
Paid to independent third parties for orginating lease Arrangement Ex. Cost of independent appraisal of collateral used to secure lease, cost of outside credit check of lessee
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Internal direct costs
Directly related to specified activities performed by lessor On a given lease Ex. Evaluating lessee's prospective financial condition, Evaluating and recording guarantees and collateral
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3 internal indirect costs (lessor performs)
1 advertising 2 servicing existing leases 3 establishing and monitoring credit policies
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The most common method of measuring current liability portion in ordinary annuity leases?
Change in the present value method
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How do companies get around capitalizing their leases ?
Companies design, write and interpret lease agreements | To prevent satisfying any if the 4 capitalized lease criteria
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How do lessees and lessors get around the "90% recovery test"? 2 methods
1 use incremental borrowing rate by lessee when it is higher Than implicit interest rate of lessor (making implicit int. rate Unavailable to lessee) 2 residual value guarantees,
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Residual value guarantees to get around 90% recovery test
Have 3rd party guarantee residual value, so minimum | Lease payments of lessee exclude the guarantee

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