INTERMIDIATE ACCOUNTING
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Chapter 15, Problem 15.5DMP
Communication Case 15–5
Where’s the gain?
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General Tools is seeking ways to maintain and improve cash balances. As company controller, you have proposed the sale and leaseback of much of the company’s equipment. As seller-lessee, General Tools would retain the right to essentially all of the remaining use of the equipment. The term of the lease would be six years.
You previously convinced your CFO of the
Required:
Write a memo to your CFO. Include discussion of each of these points:
1. How the transaction should be accounted for.
2. Why General Tools will not get the gain the CFO had counted on.
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Chapter 15 Solutions
INTERMIDIATE ACCOUNTING
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Ch. 15 - Briefly describe the conceptual basis for asset...Ch. 15 - In a financing lease, front loading of lease...Ch. 15 - The discount rate influences virtually every...Ch. 15 - A lease that has a lease term (including any...Ch. 15 - A lease might specify that lease payments may be...Ch. 15 - What is a purchase option? How does it affect...Ch. 15 - A six-year lease can be renewed for two additional...Ch. 15 - Culinary Creations leased kitchen equipment under...Ch. 15 - What situations cause us to remeasure a lease...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.21QCh. 15 - Compare the way a purchase option that is...Ch. 15 - What nonlease costs might be included as part of...Ch. 15 - The lessors initial direct costs often are...Ch. 15 - When are initial direct costs recognized in an...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.26QCh. 15 - Prob. 15.27QCh. 15 - Prob. 15.28QCh. 15 - When a company sells an asset and simultaneously...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.30QCh. 15 - Lease classification LO151 (Note: Brief Exercises...Ch. 15 - Lease classification LO151, LO152 Corinth Co....Ch. 15 - Lessee and lessor; calculate interest;...Ch. 15 - Finance lease; lessee; balance sheet effects ...Ch. 15 - Finance lease; lessee; income statement effects ...Ch. 15 - Sales-type lease; lessor; income statement effects...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.7BECh. 15 - Operating lease LO154 (Note: Brief Exercises 8...Ch. 15 - Operating lease LO154 At the beginning of its...Ch. 15 - Short-term lease LO155 King Cones leased ice...Ch. 15 - Uncertain lease term LO156 Java Hut leased a...Ch. 15 - Uncertain lease payments LO156 On January 1,...Ch. 15 - Purchase option; lessor; sales-type lease LO152,...Ch. 15 - Residual value; sales-type lease LO152, LO153,...Ch. 15 - Guarantee d residual value LO156 On January 1,...Ch. 15 - Lessors initial direct costs; sales-type lease ...Ch. 15 - Lease classification LO151 Each of the four...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.9ECh. 15 - Lessor calculation of annual lease payments;...Ch. 15 - Sales-type lease; lessor; income statement effects...Ch. 15 - Calculation of annual lease payments; residual...Ch. 15 - Lease concepts; finance/sales-type leases;...Ch. 15 - Calculation of annual lease payments; purchase...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.37ECh. 15 - Prob. 15.38ECh. 15 - Prob. 15.39ECh. 15 - Lessors initial direct costs; operating and...Ch. 15 - Research Case 151 FASB codification; locate and...Ch. 15 - Ethics Case 153 Leasehold improvements LO153...Ch. 15 - Communication Case 155 Wheres the gain? Appendix...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15.6DMPCh. 15 - Prob. 1CCTCCh. 15 - Prob. 2CCTC
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