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Chapter 21: 3CA_c (page 1251)

Question: (Lessee Capitalization Criteria) On January 1, Santiago Company, a lessee, entered into three noncancelable leases for brand-new equipment, Lease L, Lease M, and Lease N. None of the three leases transfers ownership of the equipment to Santiago at the end of the lease term. For each of the three leases, the present value at the beginning of the lease term of the minimum lease payments, excluding that portion of the payments representing executory costs such as insurance, maintenance, and taxes to be paid by the lessor, is 75% of the fair value of the equipment.

The following information is peculiar to each lease.

  1. Lease L does not contain a bargain-purchase option. The lease term is equal to 80% of the estimated economic life of the equipment.
  2. Lease M contains a bargain-purchase option. The lease term is equal to 50% of the estimated economic life of the equipment.
  3. Lease N does not contain a bargain-purchase option. The lease term is equal to 50% of the estimated economic life of the equipment.

Instructions

(c) Assuming that the minimum lease payments are made on a straight-line basis, how should Santiago record each minimum lease payment for each of the three leases above?

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Minimum lease payment should be recorded for L and M between a reduction of the liability and interest expense and for N rental expense as they become payable.

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Meaning of Straight-line basis

Straight-line" approaches allow expenditures to be dispersed equally across a set period of time. Straight-line depreciation indicates that an asset's value drops gradually during its useful life, rather than unevenly as in a bell-curve type model.

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Explaining how Santiago should record each lease payments

For Lease L, Santiago Company should divide each minimum lease payment between liability reduction and interest expenditure, resulting in a constant monthly rate of interest on the obligation's remaining balance.

Santiago Company should assign each minimum lease payment in the same way that it did for Lease L for Lease M.

Santiago Company shall charge minimum lease (rental) payments when they become due to rental expenditure for Lease N.

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(Lessor Entries; Direct-Financing Lease with Option to Purchase) Castle Leasing Company signs a lease agreement on January 1, 2017, to lease electronic equipment to Jan Way Company. The term of the noncancelable lease is 2 years, and payments are required at the end of each year. The following information relates to this agreement:

  1. Jan Way Company has the option to purchase the equipment for \(16,000 upon termination of the lease.
  2. The equipment has a cost and fair value of \)160,000 to Castle Leasing Company. The useful economic life is 2 years, with a salvage value of \(16,000.
  3. Jan Way Company is required to pay \)5,000 each year to the lessor for executory costs.
  4. Castle Leasing Company desires to earn a return of 10% on its investment.
  5. Collectibility of the payments is reasonably predictable, and there are no important uncertainties surrounding the costs yet to be incurred by the lessor.

Instructions

  1. Prepare the journal entries on the books of Castle Leasing to reflect the payments received under the lease and to recognize income for the years 2017 and 2018.

The following are four independent situations.

(c) On January 1, 2017, McKane Corp. sold an airplane with an estimated useful life of 10 years. At the same time, McKane leased back the plane for 10 years. The sales price of the airplane was \(500,000, the carrying amount \)379,000, and the annual rental $73,975.22. McKane Corp. intends to depreciate the leased asset using the sum-of-the-years’-digits depreciation method. Discuss how the gain on the sale should be reported at the end of 2017 in the financial statements.

Metheny Corporation’s lease arrangements qualify as sales-type leases at the time of entering into the transactions. How should the corporation recognize revenues and costs in these situations?

Question: The following facts pertain to a noncancelable lease agreement between Faldo Leasing Company and Vance Company, a lessee.

Inception date

January 1, 2017

Annual lease payment due at the beginning of each year, beginning with January 1, 2017

\(124,798

Residual value of equipment at end of lease term, guaranteed by the lessee

\)50,000

Lease term

6 years

Economic life of leased equipment

6 years

Fair value of asset at January 1, 2017

\(600,000

Lessor’s implicit rate

12%

Lessee’s incremental borrowing rate

12%

The lessee assumes responsibility for all executory costs, which are expected to amount to \)5,000 per year. The asset will revert to the lessor at the end of the lease term. The lessee has guaranteed the lessor a residual value of $50,000. The lessee uses the straightline depreciation method for all equipment.

Instructions

(b) Prepare all of the journal entries for the lessee for 2017 and 2018 to record the lease agreement, the lease payments, and all expenses related to this lease. Assume the lessee’s annual accounting period ends on December 31 and reversing entries are used when appropriate.

Use the information for IBM from BE21-6. Assume the direct-financing lease was recorded at a present value of \(150,000. Prepare IBM’s December 31, 2017, entry to record interest.

Assume that IBM leased equipment that was carried at a cost of \)150,000 to Sharon Swander Company. The term of the lease is 6 years beginning January 1, 2017, with equal rental payments of \(30,044 at the beginning of each year. All executory costs are paid by Swander directly to third parties. The fair value of the equipment at the inception of the lease is \)150,000. The equipment has a useful life of 6 years with no salvage value. The lease has an implicit interest rate of 8%, no bargain-purchase option, and no transfer of title. Collectibility is reasonably assured with no additional cost to be incurred by IBM. Prepare IBM’s January 1, 2017, journal entries at the inception of the lease.
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