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Classification as Finance or Operating Lease, Lessee, Discount Rate. Using the information provided in BE18-3, determine whether this lease is a finance or an operating lease if Dial Digital knows that the lessor’s implicit rate is 6%.
BE18-3. Classification as Finance or Operating Lease, Lessee. Dial Digital Solutions signed a 3-year lease at the beginning of the current year. The leased equipment has an economic life of 5 years and a fair value of $1,450. Under the terms of the lease. Dial is required to pay $500 on January 1 of each year. There is no purchase option, and Dial must return the equipment at the end of the lease term. Dial does not know the lessor s implicit rate but recently borrowed at 5% under a 3-year loan agreement. Should Dial account for this lease as an operating or a finance lease?

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