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P12–11. Recording lessors’ direct financing lease (LO 6, 7, 8)
Requirement 1:
Under the operating lease method, the lessor does not make any entry at
the inception of the lease.
The annual lease payment would be recorded as follows:
charge would be $8,345,640/8 = $1,043,205. The journal entries would be:
12/31/2014 and 12/31/2015:
DR Depreciation expense $1,043,205
CR Accumulated depreciation $1,043,205
Requirement 2:
was recognized in P12-10 when the lease was treated as a direct financing
lease. One difference is that, when the lease was classified as a direct
financing lease in P12-10, the income statement reported financing income
each year which totaled $3,654,360 over the life of the lease, while under
the operating lease method, the income statement reported rental income of