Accounting for Leases
Accounting for Leases-SFAS No. 13

"If the lease contains a bargain purchase option,. . . the payment called for by the bargain purchase option shall be included in the minimum lease payments"

"If the present value of the minimum lease payments exceeds the fair value of the leased property at lease inception, the amount measured initially as the asset and obligation shall be the fair value." codification section  840-30-3

Basic illustration--lessee accounting
Basic illustration--lessor accounting
Illustration--Sales type leases End of year payments
Illustration--Sales type leases Beginning of year payments
Guaranteed vs. Unguaranteed residual values
Selected ASC Codification Sections Relative to Recording Leases
Initial Direct Costs Illustration--initial direct costs
Accounting for Sale and Leasebacks Illustration  No. 1--Pauly Corporation
Illustration  No. 2--Zenith Corporation
Leases Involving Real Estate Illustration--Real estate leases
Flow chart for Land and Building Leases


 New Proposal to change lease accounting
  Preliminary views on Leases  (the new lease proposal)
review questions
 return to topical outline
return to contemporary accounting issues