题目 |
FASBrsquo;s New Accounting Standard on Leases: Overview of Some Key Requirements for Lessees and Implementation Considerations |
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作者 |
Patrick A. Casabona,Timothy G. Coville |
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刊名 |
Review of Business |
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来源数据库 |
Review of Business; New York Vol. 38, Iss. 1, (Jan 2018): 59-73. |
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原始语种摘要 |
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its long-awaited new standard on the accounting for leases in Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, on February 25, 2016. Since ASU 2016-02 focuses primarily on lessee accounting, this article will emphasize new key requirements for lessees and provide information about the ASU 2016-02rsquo;s effective date and transition provisions, as well as implementation considerations. |
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关键词 |
Standards;Depreciable assets;Capital leases;Revenue recognition;Accounting Standards Updates;Lessees;Liability;Balance sheets;Financial statements; |
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原始语种正文 节选 |
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its long-awaited new standard on the accounting for leases in Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), on February 25, 2016. The new standard replaces the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in Topic 840, Leases, in the FASBrsquo;s Accounting Standards Codification (ASC). The FASB issued this guidance after joint deliberations with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which issued a similar standard on January 13, 2016. Significant differences between the FASB and IASB standards will, however, remain. Despite those differences, both standards satisfied the key objective of both Boards, in how leases should be reported in financial statements, especially with respect to the recognition of lease-related assets and liabilities of lessees on their balance sheets, as well as enhancing the transparency of disclosures for these transactions (Ernst amp; Young, 2017, January 16, p. 2) This is seen as a great improvement over the existing U.S. GAAP, because it has allowed lessees to structure lease transactions to achieve off-balance sheet financing. This lease accounting guidance being replaced, codified in FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 840, Leases (hereafter ASC 840), has been criticized for failing to meet the needs of users of the financial statements, particularly because it doesnrsquo;t require lessees to recognize assets and liabilities in financial statements arising from operating leases. The new guidance in ASU 2016-02, which is codified in FASB ASC 842,Leases (hereafter ASC 842), addresses those criticisms by requiring lessees to recognize most leases on their balance sheets as assets and liabilities and providing enhanced disclosures. The FASB believes this will result in a more faithful representation of lesseesrsquo; assets and liabilities and greater transparency about the lesseesrsquo; obligations and leasing activities (Ernst amp; Young, 2017, January 16, p. 3). Under ASC 842, leases are accounted for based on the FASBrsquo;s right-of-use (ROU) model, which reflects the fact that a lessee has a financial obligation to make lease payments to the lessor for its right to use a specific asset, during the lease term, beginning at the commencement date of the lease contract. The lessor provides that right to use the asset at the lease commencement date. The new guidance in ASC 842 will affect lease accounting significantly more for lessees than for lessors, the latter of which will experience only a few significant changes. Lessees will now be required to recognize and record a right-of-use (ROU) asset and a lease liability for almost all of their leases, except those that satisfy the new standardrsquo;s definition of a short-term lease, which are essentially leases for 12 months or less, to be expanded upon later. The lease liability to be recorded will be equal to the present value of lease payments as before under ASC 840, Leases, and the leased asset recorded will be determined on the basis of the liability recorded, subject to certain adjustments, such as lessee incentives and initial direct costs associated with the lease. Each lease will be classified 全文共34622字,剩余内容已隐藏,支付完成后下载完整资料
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