Capital Lease

Our visitor asked about capital lease. We try to give some suggestions in this video. In this video, we discuss how the asset and liability are calculated if capital lease is used. Calculation of liability is similar to those used for bonds. You may refer to “Premium Bond Liabilities on Balance Sheet” for comparison. The following is a part of the transcript. This video requires Flash 8 or above. If it does not start, click the play button to start.

 

Question: How are the asset and liability amortized differently in the balance sheet?

 

 

Let’s try this example. Assume the company rents a machine for 3 years. It has to pay $10,000 every year. And the discount rate is 10%. If capital lease is used, how do the asset and liability evolve?

 

The following is the answer. Please refer to the video for details.

 

 

Asset (year end)

Liability (year begin)

Interest

Payment

Liability (Year End)

2004

24868.52

 

 

 

 

2005

16579.01

24868.52

2486.852

10000

17355.37

2006

8289.507

17355.37

1735.537

10000

9090.909

2007

0

9090.909

909.0909

10000

0

 

5 Comments

VivekAugust 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 am

This post still contains the previous post’s video i.e Technological Efficiency and Economic Efficiency

VivekAugust 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 am

Based off the static table provided I understand that the Asset initial value = PV or MLP, and it is depreciated using the straight line method (that gives us the value of the asset each year) Now the for the Liabilities: It starts off with initial asset and we then subtract out the interest on the liability at 10% and also subtract the yearly payment i,e 10000

AdministratorAugust 23rd, 2007 at 10:35 am

Hi Vivek, we have uploaded the right one. Sorry for the inconvenience!

For the liability, Year_End = Year_Begin + Interest – Payment.

SSeptember 8th, 2007 at 3:35 am

Hi, When constructing the balance sheet for 2005, what factor needs to be added to keep the books balanced?

KunalFebruary 17th, 2010 at 4:02 am

hi my confusion is why are we subtracting the payment and adding the interest expense . Since interest payment also goes to the lessor……. why is it not subtracted from the liability

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