Does your organization have the proper systems in place to comply with the new lease accounting standards? If not, you’re not alone. Navigating the burden of legacy systems, systems complexity,...
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Table of contents Introduction Lease Accounting FAQs What is lease accounting? What are the new lease accounting standards? ASC 842IFRS 16 GASB 87 Other National Standards Why Use Lease Accounting...
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There is power within your lease portfolio. Over the last year, public and private businesses have taken a closer look at their leases – and experienced the downstream benefits of…
Last year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provided private companies with an extra year to adopt lease accounting standard ASC 842. When this was announced, 63.8% of surveyed private company executives…
This article originally appeared here in Forbes. As a result of Covid-19 and the changing landscape related to leases, private companies have received more time to prepare for and adopt…
This article originally appeared here in Forbes. In 2020, many companies were forced to make tough decisions regarding their leased commercial spaces. From office closures to consolidations and deferrals, many…
Lease accounting is a massive, cross-functional effort. It involves various stakeholders and systems that impact (and are impacted by) leases. It is not just an accounting problem – and goes…
In recent months, organizations have sought greater flexibility in their leases. Uncertainty from the pandemic has created an uptick in lease contract negotiations, as well as the act of looking…
Lease concessions are discounts, incentives, or other benefits provided by landlords to tenants. Landlords sometimes offer lease concessions to entice tenants to sign a new lease — or concessions may…
As you probably know, all government entities must comply with GASB 87, the latest lease accounting standard issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, with reporting for the period beginning…
What are embedded leases? Simply put, embedded leases are components within contracts that entail the use of a particular asset, where the user has control over that asset. You might…
Hundreds of private organizations have begun their journey towards lease accounting compliance. Although, many of them underestimate the amount of effort involved with preparation. In particular, assembling a team…
Lease Accounting Compliance: Lessons from Public Companies Although private companies still have some time to adopt the new lease accounting standards, public companies have already had to meet their compliance…
Recently, we have talked a lot about ways that companies can understand their lease obligations and reduce costs in light of COVID-19. What many businesses have discovered during this time…
Across industries, sectors and organizations of different sizes, the COVID-19 outbreak has touched virtually every business in some way. Between stay-at-home orders, emergency closures, and supply chain disruptions, companies are…
With all the business closures and cutbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of companies are worried about not only managing their lease expenses now, but also accounting for…
Deciphering financial and contractual obligations of a lease can be a challenge. And that is especially true during an unprecedented event, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. All you really want…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every company in some way. With “social distancing” and all the emergency regulations that are in place, many offices and nonessential businesses are shut down…
In an act of relief for companies during the coronavirus pandemic, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently voted to propose a one-year deferral of major accounting standards, including ASC…
With all the new lease accounting rules you have to contend with — whether you follow ASC 842, IFRS 16, or GASB 87 — the prospect of generating lease accounting…
How often do you have this experience when evaluating enterprise software? The vendor gives a demonstration of an amazing solution, walking you through complex tools that do exactly what you…
With the big push to achieve compliance, a lot of businesses have been laser-focused on making the transition to the new FASB/IFRS lease accounting requirements. While that is understandable, it’s…
Until recently, many companies were not paying much attention to their property and asset leases beyond paying the bills. Leases were simply considered a cost of doing business, and managing…
As the standard for lease accounting software, Visual Lease provides the tools you need to achieve compliance. We make it easy to track, report, and manage your lease finances within…
The challenges of lease accounting data collection for distributed firms Getting ready for compliance with the new lease accounting standards (FASB ASC 842 and IFRS 16) is a complex and…
When ASC 842 and IFRS 16 were first announced, there was quite a bit of uncertainty about how the accounting would work for variable rent leases. Large public companies found…
Can your lease accounting software find lease payment mistakes? Were you under the impression that lease accounting software could only perform accounting calculations and add information to your balance sheet?…
Steps to Ensure a Smooth Transition to ASC 842 / IFRS 16 With the countdown to FASB/IASB lease accounting changes well underway, many organizations are scrambling to implement technology to...
Read MoreVisual Lease, a New Jersey-based lease management and accounting SaaS company, today announced Clark Convery joined its team as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Visual Lease, Convery was General Manager of the Enterprise…
Achieve fast compliance and long-term value with Grant Thornton and Visual Lease’s joint lease accounting solution With the enactment of the new IFRS 16 & ASC 842 (FASB) lease accounting…
With FASB compliance less than a year away, Visual Lease is doing all we can to smooth the transition — including delivering a new lease accounting update designed to make…
For corporate real estate decision-makers, will the new lease accounting standards make an already challenging job even more difficult? You already have many factors to consider when choosing locations, negotiating…
Avoiding Costly Mistakes in the Race for FASB/IASB Compliance.Don't Select A System Without Considering These Factors… 1. The Benefits of a Single System In the race to get compliant, accounting...
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It was early summer of 1995, and I was aboard a French SST Concord traveling at roughly Mach3 from New York to Paris..
The long awaited new lease standard has arrived! The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) released its version of the new lease standard last week with implementation scheduled for early 2019. The US accounting standards board (FASB) is expected to release its version shortly with implementation to follow soon after IASB’s.
With the New Year it’s a good time to take stock of the corporate real estate domain and consider the challenges facing the managerial profession responsible for the corporation’s real estate assets and services in the year ahead. Here are five major challenges if dealt with effectively will determine in part the success of corporate real estate in 2016.
In a earlier white paper, The Lease Accounting Tsunami; Are You Prepared to Weather the Storm?, I wrote that users should evaluate the effects of the new FASB/IASB on a company’sdebt structure, debt to equity, and other factors that would be affected by the new standard, assuming lease liabilities would be considered as debt. In point of fact, the FASB explicitly decided that Type B lease liabilities should not be considered as “debt.” However, the IASB which treats all leases as Type A leases or capital leases, does consider these liabilities as “debt-like liabilities.” (Their exact words) As one of my accounting friends advised “The accounting for Type A leases requires IASB companies to record interest expense, and segregates payments on the lease liability into operations and financing outflows per the cashflow statement, which is consistent with debt.”
Thus, US companies will experience less impact from the new standard, particularly as it relates to debt covenants, debt to equity metrics, and capital structures. But US companies with significant international lease portfolios subject to the IASB standard, will see their debt levels increase.
We are frequently asked why we need a new FASB lease standard.. here are our thoughts…
There’s compelling logic to combine a lease audit service with a lease management system such as Visual Lease..
