Under a capital lease, the lease payments are divided into two components. What are they?
A capital lease is a lease in which the lessor only finances the leased asset, and all other rights of ownership transfer to the lessee. | ||||||||||
This results in the recordation of the asset as the lessee's property in its general ledger, as a fixed asset.The lessee can only | ||||||||||
record the interest portion of a capital lease payment as expense.In effect the capital lease accounting treatment deals with asset | ||||||||||
as it it had been purchased using a loan as finance. | ||||||||||
The Lease payments are divided into two components principal and interest to clear the loan balance over the term, | ||||||||||
and to charge the profit and loss account with the interest. | ||||||||||
The answer is Principal and Interest. | ||||||||||
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