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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 ...

Shifting application from an individual lease to a portfolio level offers practicality and cost minimization for companies adopting FASB’s new lease accounting standard. Here are tips for applying a ...

When you buy cars, computers or buildings for your business, they count as assets on your financial statements. If you lease them, the accounting is more complicated. If you use what's called a ...

When investing, assessing a company’s assets and liabilities is a basic requirement to determine what the company is worth. Thankfully, public companies file their financial statements with the ...

Gross leases charge tenants for rent and utilities; net leases add taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Modified gross leases split property expenses between landlord and tenant variably. These leases ...

Lease payments are tied to the terms of different forms of leasing, with differences in lease types coming from how maintenance is treated.

A lease swap is a process by which the person who controls a lease on a vehicle transfers it to another person under the same conditions as the original lease agreement. Car leasing is one of the most ...

Poor management of your real estate leases exposes your business to a range of risks including unexpected terminations, defaults and overbilling by lessors. And with new lease accounting rules ...