Many companies are not complying with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) new standard (ASU 2016-02) for reporting operating lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. This ...

Accounting standard setters classify leases as operating or capital to differentiate true lease agreements from purchases disguised as leases. If the lease has any of the following characteristics, it ...

Accounting rules break leases into two classes. When you lease equipment or a building for a relatively short term, you have an operating lease, AccountingTools explains. If you lease long-term or in ...

Most years when we tackle this special issue on leasing, we lead with an article on “operating” leasing. We do this because many of our readers are operating lessors or operating lessees or work for ...

For many UK and Irish accounting teams, the term "operating lease" was once synonymous with off-balance sheet. However, as the regulatory landscape ...

According to reports from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. companies currently have an estimated $2.8 trillion in operating lease obligations that are ...

Recently I fielded a call from the president of a regional railroad who is an old friend. He had some boxcars on his railroad that he was leasing from one of the major operating lessors. The cars were ...

Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics of equipment leasing to refresh your understanding, gain further knowledge or simply test a commonly held belief or misbelief that one method is more expensive ...

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