Lease Footnotes Exercise (CFA Video)

Lease Footnotes Exercise (CFA Video)

 

Question:

 

If a company disclosed the future lease payments as the following footnotes, what will be the change of liability if the operating lease were also reported as finance lease

 

 

Finance Lease

Operating Lease

Year 1

30

20

Year 2

50

30

Year 3

40

 

PV of future lease payments

104

 

 

Answer:

 

 

When the Operating Lease is recorded as Finance Lease, the PV of the future payments will be added to both the asset and liability

 

PV = 20/(1+7.18%) + 30/ (1+7.18%)^2

=44.78

 

The liability will be increased by 44.78

3 Comments

WalidJanuary 22nd, 2011 at 8:23 am

Exellent, thank you for your effort.

xezoMarch 30th, 2011 at 6:25 pm

Exellent

xezoMarch 30th, 2011 at 6:25 pm

Excellent

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