When it comes to buying or leasing medical equipment, both routes have their pros and cons. However, leasing is becoming an increasingly popular choice for many healthcare providers. The best medical ...

A synthetic lease is a financing technique structured to be an operating lease for the lessee’s financial accounting purposes and a financing for U.S. federal tax purposes. Synthetic leases are most ...

ASC 842, the new lease accounting standard, represents the most significant change in decades to the way companies account for leases under U.S. GAAP. For the first time, companies are required to ...

According to reports from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. companies currently have an estimated $2.8 trillion in operating lease obligations that are ...

It's going to take a great deal of time and resources to dig into the underlying contracts to discern how to properly follow the new rules and determine the impact on your financial statements. It's ...

Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics of equipment leasing to refresh your understanding, gain further knowledge or simply test a commonly held belief or misbelief that one method is more expensive ...

Rochester Institute of Technology adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) new accounting guidance on leases FASB Accounting Standards Codification Section 842 ("ASC 842") on July 1, ...

FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842, Leases, issued in February 2016, marked a significant overhaul in the financial reporting of long-term leases. Its adoption created many ...

A new accounting rule added nearly $3 trillion to corporate balance sheets in Q1. Operating lease obligations, formerly buried in the footnotes, must now be reported as a liability – and corresponding ...