Sustaining compliance after day two requires a rigorous focus on optimizing processes for ongoing management of lease accounting data and entries. As leases evolve over their lifetimes, organizations ...

With the new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) lease accounting standard — Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), many companies are grappling with the transition ...

Shifting application from an individual lease to a portfolio level offers practicality and cost minimization for companies adopting FASB’s new lease accounting standard. Here are tips for applying a ...

Chances are you’ve already tangled with the ASC 842/IFRS 16 changes in standards determining how organizations should be accounting for leases on the balance sheet. The effective date for implementing ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Accounting Standard Codification Topic (ASC) 842, “Leases ...

Banks are bracing for the impact — on two fronts — of a new federal rule that will change how companies account for the cost of leasing everything from equipment to automobiles to space in office ...

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Accounting rules break leases into two classes. When you lease equipment or a building for a relatively short term, you have an operating lease, AccountingTools explains. If you lease long-term or in ...