Chapter 15, Problem 15.9P

1)

To determine

Lease

Lease is a contractual agreement whereby the right to use an asset for a particular period of time is provided by the owner of the asset to the user of the asset. The owner, who possesses the asset, is termed as ‘Lessor’ and user, to whom the right is transferred to, is termed as ‘Lessee’.

The criteria for defining the lease as finance lease or operating lease

As per the notes issued by Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB), the following are four criteria to determine is a lease is a capital lease or an operating lease:

1. 1. Transfer of title: The asset is transferred to lessee at the end of the lease period concerned.

1. 2. Purchase option: The purchase option is exercisable when the purchase price is sufficiently lower than expected fair value.

1. 3. Economic life: The economic life of the lease period is 75% or more than the useful life of the asset.

1. 4. Value recovery: Present value of lease payments is greater or equal to 90% of the fair value.

If a particular lease fulfils any one of the above four criteria, then it is considered as finance lease. If a lease does not fulfill any of the above four criteria, it would be considered as operating lease.

Sales-type lease/Finance lease

Sales type/Finance lease is a parallel type of direct financing whereby the owner (lessor) purchases the equipment to lease it and received the interest revenue over the period of lease for equipment, apart from the recognition of profit from sale of equipment.

Lessee guaranteed residual value

The lessee guaranteed residual value of leased asset is an estimation of the commercial value of the asset at the end of lease term. The present value is considered when determining the lease classification criteria (Criteria 4). Lessee guaranteed residual value is added to lease receivable and also added to sales revenue.

To Show: how the annual lease payment of $104,000 is being calculated.

Explanation of Solution

	Amount ($)
Lease payments at the beginning of each of the next 4 years (3)	100,000
Add: Maintenance cost	4,000
Lease payments including nonlease components	104,000

Table (1)

Working notes:

Calculate present value of residual amount:

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Present value of residual value = Residual value after 4 years}\times \text{PVIF}\left(10\%,4\right)\\ =\$25,000\times 0.68301\\ =\$17,075\end{array}$ (1)

Calculate the amount to be recovered by periodic lease payments:

	Amount ($)
Amount to be recovered (Fair value of truck)	365,760
Less: Present value of residual value (1)	17,075
Amount to be recovered by periodic lease payments	348,685

(2)

Calculate lease payments at the beginning of each of the next 4 years:

$\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{l}Leasepayments\\ atthebeginning\\ ofeachofthenext4years\end{array}\}\text{ = }\left[\frac{\begin{array}{l}Amounttoberecovered\\ byperiodicleasepayments\end{array}}{PVIFA\left(10\%,4\right)}\right]\\ =\frac{\$348,685\left(2\right)}{3.48685}\\ =\$100,000\end{array}$ (3)

(2)

(a)

To determine

the appropriate classification of lease by lessee and state the reason.

Explanation of Solution

Since at least one criteria is met, the lease is a finance lease to the lessee. The Lessee records the present value of lease payments as lease payable and right-of-use asset.

Working note:

The present value of lease payments is calculated as below:

$\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{l}\text{Present value of }\\ \text{periodic lease payments}\\ \left(\text{Excluding nonlease payments}\right)\end{array}\}\text{ =}\left(\begin{array}{l}\text{Annual lease }\\ \text{payments}\times \text{PVIFA }\left(\text{10\%,4yrs}\right)\end{array}\right)\\ =\left(\$100,000\times 3.48685\right)\\ =\$348,685\end{array}$ (4)

The classification criteria for lessor are as follows:

S.No	Classification criteria	Does it satisfy?
1	Does the lease agreement specify about ownership transfer?	No
2	Does the lease agreement state about bargain purchase option?	No
3	Does the term of lease constitute major part of the expected economic life of the asset?	No	Lease term = 4 years Useful life = 6 years
4	Is the present value of lease payments greater than or equal to substantially all of the market/fair value of the asset?	Yes	Present value (4) = $348,685 Fair value = $365,760
5	Is the asset is of such a specialized nature which is expected to have an alternative use to lessor at the end of the term of lease?	No

Table (2)

(b)

To determine

the appropriate classification of lease by lessor and state the reason.

Explanation of Solution

Since at least one criteria is met, the lease is a sales type lease with a selling profit to the lessor. The selling profit is calculated as follows:

Particulars	Amount ($)
Fair value	365,760
Less: Book value	300,000
Selling profit	65,760

(3)

To determine

To Prepare: appropriate journal entries for WS Company (Lessee) and Company RM (Lessor) on December 31, 2016.

Explanation of Solution

Prepare journal entry for WS Company (Lessee) in the month of December 31, 2016

Date		Accounts title and explanation	Post Ref.	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
		Right-of-use asset (4)		348,685
		Lease Payable			348,685
		(To record the lease payable)

Table (3)

Transaction on December 31, 2016: Record the lease payments and prepaid maintenance expense.

Date	Account Title and Explanation	Post Ref	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
	Prepaid maintenance expenses		4,000
	Lease payable (Difference)		100,000
	Cash			104,000
	(To record annual lease payment and maintenance expenses.)

Table (4)

Prepare journal entry for RM Company (Lessor) in the month of December 31, 2016

Date		Account Titles and Explanation	Post Ref.	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
		Lease Receivable		365,760
		Cost of Goods Sold (5)		282,925
		Sales Revenue (4)			348,685
		Equipment			300,000
		(To record lease inception)

Table (5)

Working notes:

Calculate the cost of goods sold as follows:

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Cost of goods sold = Equipment value}-\left[\text{Expected residual value}\times PVIF\left(10\%,4\right)\right]\\ =\$300,000-\left[\$25,000\times 0.68301\right]\\ =\$300,000-\$17,075\\ =\$282,925\end{array}$ (5)

Journalize the lease receivable: December 31, 2016

Date		Accounts Title and Explanation	Post Ref.	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
		Cash		104,000
		Lease Receivable			100,000
		Maintenance fee payable			4,000
		(To record the lease received)

Table (6)

(4)

To determine

To Prepare: an amortization schedule describing the pattern of interest over the lease term for the lessee and lessor.

Explanation of Solution

The present value of periodic lease payments and present value of unguaranteed residual value combine to help the lessor in recovering its investment and are recorded as lease receivable.

Prepare amortization schedule for lessor as follows: (Unguaranteed residual value included)

Lease Amortization Schedule
A	B	C	D	E
Date (December 31)	Lease Payment ($)	Effective Interest (10% × Outstanding balance) ($)	Payment Reduction ($) (B –C)	Outstanding Balance ($) (E –D)
2016				365,760
2016	100,000		100,000	265,760
2017	100,000	26,576	73,424	192,336
2018	100,000	19,234	80,766	111,570
2019	100,000	11,157	88,843	22,727
2020	25,000	2,273	22,727	0
	425,000	59,240	365,760

Table (7)

The lessee takes the residual value as a lease payment only if the payment of cash is estimated due to the lessee-guaranteed residual value. But in this case, this is not present.

Prepare amortization schedule for lessee as follows: (Unguaranteed residual value excluded)

Lease Amortization Schedule
A	B	C	D	E
Date (December 31)	Lease Payment ($)	Effective Interest (10% × Outstanding balance) ($)	Payment Reduction ($) (B –C)	Outstanding Balance ($) (E –D)
2016				348,685
2016	100,000		100,000	248,685
2017	100,000	24,869	75,132	173,554
2018	100,000	17,355	82,645	90,909
2019	100,000	9,091	90,909	0
	400,000	51,315	348,685

Table (8)

The amortization table is prepared to present the pattern of interest expenses throughout the period. The schedule shows the lease balance and effective interest change over the 8-quarterly term period of lease using effective interest rate of 3%. Each lease payment after the first payment includes both the interest and amount that represents the reduction of outstanding balance. At the end of the lease period, the outstanding balance becomes zero.

(5)

To determine

To Prepare: appropriate entries for both WS Company (Lessee) and Company RM (Lessor) on December 31, 2017.

Explanation of Solution

Prepare journal entries for WS Company (Lessee) on December 31, 2017

Date	Account Title and Explanation	Post Ref	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
	Amortization expense (6)		87,171
	Right-of-use asset			87,171
	(To record amortization expense.)
	Maintenance expense		4,000
	Prepaid Maintenance expense			4,000
	(To record expensing of prepaid maintenance expense.)
	Interest expense Table (8)		24,869
	Lease payable (Difference)		75,131
	Prepaid maintenance expense		4,000
	Cash			104,000
	(To record the lease payments and interest expense)

Table (9)

Working note:

Calculate the amortization expense for the asset

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Amortization expense = }\frac{\text{Present value of lease payments}}{\text{Lease term}}\\ =\frac{\$348,685}{4}\\ =\$87,171\end{array}$ (6)

Prepare journal entries for RM Company (Lessor) on December 31, 2017

Date	Account Title and Explanation	Post Ref	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
	Cash		104,000
	Maintenance fee payable			4,000
	Lease receivable (Difference)			73,424
	Interest revenue Table (7)			26,576
	(To record interest revenue.)

Table (10)

(6)

To determine

To Prepare: appropriate entries for WS Company (Lessee) and RM Company (Lessor) as on December 31, 2020 assuming the equipment is returned to lessor.

Explanation of Solution

(Given)

The equipment is returned is lessor and actual residual value is $1,500.

Prepare journal entries for WS Company (Lessee) on December 31, 2020

Date	Account Title and Explanation	Post Ref	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
	Amortization expense (6)		87,171
	Right-of-use asset			87,171
	(To record amortization expense.)
	Maintenance expense		4,000
	Prepaid Maintenance expense			4,000
	(To record expensing of prepaid maintenance expense.)

Table (11)

Working note:

Calculate the loss on residual value guarantee

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Loss on residual value guarantee = }\left[\begin{array}{l}\text{Lessee guaranteed }\\ \text{residual value}-\text{Actual residual value}\end{array}\right]\\ =\$25,000-\$1,500\\ =\$23,500\end{array}$ (7)

Prepare journal entries for RM Company (Lessor) on December 31, 2020

Date	Account Title and Explanation	Post Ref	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
	Loss on leased assets (7)		23,500
	Equipment		1,500
	Lease receivable			22,727
	Interest revenue Table (7)			2,273
	(To record interest revenue.)

Table (12)