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Reclass of a capital lease to an operating lease
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 4:50pm by Matt Dukes (Controller)
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What are the rules on changing a capital lease to an operating lease? How do you go about this approach, and would you have to go back to the inception of the lease to incorporate the change? Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated.
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Matt,
Once the original classification has been determined, you're stuck with it until the expiration of the original or remaining term of the lease that was used to classify the lease in the first place. If the company exercises any extensions of the lease, you are supposed to retest the lease and it is possible that is could become an operating lease. Correction of an error in the original classification (e.g. error in the application of the standard), if appropriate, is an entirely different situation - have to talk to your accountants on that one.
accounting lease accounting gaap
It is possible to reclassify the lease during it's term rather than only on lease extension, so long as you have renegotiated the terms & conditions of the lease. That would require substantially all the risks & rewards of ownership being transferred to the lessor (usually transferring residual risk at an appropriate level given its remaining life, and preferably the operating costs such as maintenance & tires).
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Matt,
I'll respond more completely depending on how you answer this question:
Is the change brought about by an evaluation that the lease was previously misclassified, or has the lease been renegotiated and thus the terms changed to require the reclassification?
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Capital Lease
Does anyone have any good resources to share around the new regulations around lease accounting including capital leases and operating leases?