By: Joe Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President of Lease Market Strategy Spreadsheet applications are easily the most important and universal accounting tools used today—so much so that you’d never guess the…
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Your business already uses Excel for many accounting calculations, including for ASC 840 lease accounting, so it’s understandable that you may want to consider continuing to use it as an…
What is Capital Lease Accounting? A capital lease is a contract allowing a renter to use an asset temporarily. This lease shares the same economic characteristics of asset ownership in…
Lease accounting (ASC 842, IFRS 16 or GASB 87) is not your average one-and-done disclosure. This whole new approach to accounting requires you to account for lease changes throughout the year with a higher level of scrutiny. A…
As you navigate the complexities of ASC 842 compliance, you may be wondering how and when to account for leasehold improvements. What are leasehold improvements? From an accounting standpoint, leasehold...
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Among the many different calculations used in lease accounting, the incremental borrowing rate may be one of the most misunderstood. The incremental borrowing rate (IBR) is the interest rate a lessee would…
What is Deferred Rent Under ASC 842? In lease accounting, deferred rent happens when the cash rental payment varies from its expense recognized on the financial statements and occurs when the tenant is provided free rent in one...
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Cell phone companies offer new phones to entice clients to renew their contracts. Retailers slash their prices to draw consumers to purchase. Car dealerships hand out freebies and discounts. In...
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Changes in accounting standards have made lease accounting more difficult. Adopting IFRS 16 lease accounting, for example, has made compliance cumbersome as it involves adjusting to new policies, systems and…
The old lease standard, ASC 840, did not require all kinds of leases to be recorded on the balance sheet, which in turn provided the opportunity for many to use...
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Visual Lease launches the integrations hub, providing powerful, flexible & open access to lease data
Lease portfolios often account for a massive portion of a company’s risk exposure and overhead. And yet, most businesses lack visibility into their leases to understand their obligations and options – and…
How to Abstract, Manage and Report on Lease Data When FASB issued its update to the lease accounting standard, the main goal was to increase the transparency and comparability of financial reporting. …
Leasing vs buying is not an easy decision to make regardless of the asset involved. While there are lease vs buy analysis Excel sheets, choosing one over the other is…
There have been several major changes in the way businesses address service contracts in recent years given the new standards and updates on the existing standards. For one, the new…
If you have signed an operating lease for space, built leasehold improvements, and determined that you are legally required to take out the leasehold improvement when the lease expires, then…
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are not blind to the tedious task facing firms once the new standards take effect. Hence, the creation…
In this blog entry I would like to introduce the topic of CRE leadership and management. I hope to explore the topic over the next several weeks with the hope that these personal observations will be useful to those readers who aspire to make corporate real estate management a long term career.
In this morning’s New York Times, it was reported that Goldman Sachs recently consolidated from three floors to two in its major Manhattan office tower. The Times reports that “the changes in real estate have helped Goldman reduce its cost by 17 percent since 2010.” This is yet another example of the value in corporate real estate strategic planning and why I wanted to spend a bit more time on the subject.
In the last blog entry we reviewed how the strategic planning process evolved from forming the planning team, benchmarking performance indicators, and setting priority objectives. Outlined below is what the strategic plan looks like:
There’s compelling logic to combine a lease audit service with a lease management system such as Visual Lease..
