This paper argues that leasing, as an important but often ignored source of external financing, facilitates the allocation efficiency of finance. We document a large overestimation of measured finance misallocation (Whited and Zhao, 2021) when lease-induced debt is ignored among US manufacturing...

This paper explores the connection between tenant riskiness, commercial lease length and the term structure of lease contracts. Theory shows that the possibility of default on a long-term lease generates a risk/lease-length connection. The empirical work uses a large CompStak lease dataset...

Since 1993, the Ethiopian government has been using the urban land leasing system to monetize the increase in land value created due to factors other than private investment. Thus, this paper aims to explore and understand whether Bahir Dar city is leveraging the urban land lease system as a...

Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms ubiquitously include royalty and primary term clauses. The royalty denotes the share of revenue that is paid to the mineral owner, and the primary term specifies the date by which the firm must complete a well, lest it lose the...

This study finds that the requirement of ASC 842 for firms to capitalize operating leases in financial statements beginning in 2019 resulted in firms affected by the standard reducing existing debt amounts on average between 7% and 10% relative to unaffected firms. We also find that firms with...

We examine how the implementation of the K-IFRS No.1116 Lease affects firm value. This new accounting standard mandates capitalization of all leases, resulting in changes in the key accounting leverage ratios and rates of return. The contracting costs hypothesis suggests that changes in...

We examine the real effects of lease capitalization rules (i.e., standards that require firms to capitalize finance leases) on corporate investment. We show that the introduction of these rules leads to a decrease in investment, which is more pronounced for firms with high reliance on leases. We...

We apply latent Dirichlet allocation to examine the textual characteristics of firms’ transition disclosures in the context of the adoption of Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 842 on leases. We find that firms’ lease transition disclosures become less readable and more dissimilar the...

The paper aims to assess the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 16 "Leases" impact on the lessees' financial situation. The study was conducted on the financial data for 2018-2019 of 494 companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange using the difference-in-differences (DID)...

The main objective of this study is to determine a lease agreement to finance an investment project and a solution for managing credit risk. This study investigates three types of contingent leases to reduce the costs associated with bankruptcy and compensate for the lessor's position. A leasing...

What incentives do managers face that might give rise to inefficient investments in leases? If managers make inefficient investments in leases, what economic consequences arise for those managers and their firms? We develop a model of expected investments in leased assets and use the residuals...

We construct a two-period model of the supply chain's openness in a durable goods market by introducing two marketing modes: leasing and selling. Given a marketing mode, at the beginning of the first period, an incumbent supplier and the downstream monopolist choose one of the trading modes: (i)...

Our study addresses two issues overlooked in prior research: Does a firm’s future operating lease obligations influence its current cash holdings? Does this relationship contribute to the temporal increase in corporate cash holdings? We provide evidence that these future obligations...

As the concept of lease finance has been emerged only after World War II in the community of bankers, it has proved itself as one of the inadvertent source of corporate finance in contemporary time. Moreover, under the two fork of the lease procedure, operating lease is practiced by the economic...

Women’s groups have emerged as an important platform for promoting the economic, political and social empowerment of poor women. In India, Self Help Groups (SHGs), are becoming substantially involved in agricultural development activities, largely through the National Rural Livelihoods Mission...

We construct a two-period model of the supply chain's openness in a durable goods market by introducing two marketing modes: leasing and selling. Given a marketing mode, at the beginning of the first period, an incumbent supplier and the downstream monopolist choose one of the trading modes: (i)...

Firms make extensive use of operating leases, but unlike other types of debt, their balance sheet value is set by the firm. Using novel information on operating leases from new reporting requirements (ASC 842) we examine firm behavior in valuing these leases, specifically, discount rate choices....

For centuries, learned scholars and judges have expounded their views of the distinctions between sales and leases. The distinction has resulted in differential treatment of sales and leases in such areas as bankruptcy, tax, remedies on default, and filing requirements. Recently, several...

Leasing's impact on leverage remains an open debate in the literature. Some argue that leasing and secured debt are substitutes, while others argue that leasing can preserve secured debt capacity and facilitate greater borrowing. I exploit a Moody's accounting policy change that unexpectedly...

Terminal Rental Adjustment Clause (TRAC) vehicle leasing is the most popular way to lease fleets of trucks and cars in America. This article describes the origins of TRAC vehicle leasing, the challenges that emerged in the 1980s to characterizing TRAC vehicle leases as "true leases," and the...

By analyzing a hand-collected transaction-level dataset on the finance leases of China’s public firms for the period 2007-2019, this paper sheds light on China’s financial leasing industry. We find that banks use their affiliated leasing firms to provide credit to constrained clients in...

In this paper, we argue that leasing is an important alternative way of capital reallocation, complementary to directly purchasing capital from the reallocation market, and it significantly mitigates credit-constraint-induced capital misallocation. However, in the existing literature, leased...

The Ministry of Finance of China has proposed a new lease accounting model to the existing lease accounting standard that requires the capitalization of all operating leases as assets and liabilities. In this case study, the key effects of the application of a new accounting standard —...

Warren Buffett famously commented that the US airline industry had made zero profit in its first nine decades. Subsequently, between the millennium and the Great Financial Crisis the airlines in total lost almost $60bn. Yet no major airline was liquidated or taken over in those nine years....

The Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02 generated considerable debate between managers and standard setters. The purpose of our study is to understand the reporting effects of ASU 2016-02 and how its issuance and implementation affected managers’...

COVID-19 has launched a flurry of contractual questions. Commercial leases during the pandemic present a unique challenge to the existing Canadian common law, renewing the doctrinal debate on the differences between hardship and frustration. This paper will argue that the doctrine of...

We examine whether investors react to a significant change in balance sheets absent a significant change in underlying economics. Beginning in 2019, ASC 842 requires the recognition of operating leases, which were previously only disclosed in the footnotes. This change in accounting standard has...

This technical note explains how to account for leases under Accounting Standards Codification 842. This new addition to US generally accepted accounting principles became effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. The note provides broad treatment for how a lessee will...

Leasing companies play a vital role in developing micro, medium and small scale industries. Bajaj Finance Limited is a leasing company which also makes contribution to economic development. Hence, maintaining liquidity and solvency position is very important to Bajaj Finance Limited. With this...

Measuring the performance of the lease and higher purchase financing company or institution is very important to know the company's position in the aspect of profitability. In this paper, the researchers made an attempt to find out the profitability of the private lease company by particularly...

At the time of its adoption thirty five years ago the Uniform Commercial Code revolutionized the law of secured transactions. Article 9 on secured transactions codified parts of the existing law, but it also introduced new rules and an extensive new body of nomenclature. The drafters of the Code...

ASC 842, the lease accounting standard implemented in 2019, requires companies to capitalize operating leases previously disclosed only in footnotes. While the new standard imposes significant changes to balance sheets, the accounting for leases in income statements remains unchanged. Drawing...

Leases are quite relevant to a large number of enterprises. Due to the fact that a lease reduces an entity's exposure to risks inherent in asset ownership, it is a widely used method of obtaining access to property, plant and equipment. At the beginning of this article sources of existence of...