PowerPoint Slides
Two PowerPoint presentations of the chapter are available in the Connect
Library:
1. With “Concept Checks” useful for classroom presentation, permitting the
instructor to intersperse in the presentation short exercises students can be
asked to solve individually or in small groups before the solution is
“revealed” by the instructor. {These are available only within Instructor
Resources.}
2. Without the “Concept Checks” so students don’t have the solutions before
being asked to solve individually or in small groups.
3. Accessible PowerPoint Presentations. Accessibility is becoming even
more important in the education marketplace. Students and instructors
with disabilities use many different assistive technologies, and
McGraw-Hill Education is working to increase compatibility and access
that will not only help those with disabilities achieve better learning
outcomes, but also serve the institutions that are teaching these students.
Accessible PowerPoint allows slide content to be read by a screen reader
and provides alternative text descriptions for any image files used that
enrich the learning experience. Accessible PowerPoint is also designed
with high-contrast color palettes and uses texture when possible, instead
of color to denote different aspects of the imagery used within the slide.
Note: The slides are intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the
chapter, but they can be easily edited to allow instructors to change
numbers and content in illustrations or to delete slides pertaining to topics
they choose to omit or deemphasize. (Using your students’ names for
company names in the Concept Checks or Illustrations can be fun.)
Suggestions for Class Activities
1. Spreadsheet Activity
Have students create a functional lease amortization schedule in Excel. Suggest that the
spreadsheet:
1. Include cells for the number of periods, the interest rate, the present value of cash flows,
and the periodic rent. The cells should be “defined” as the respective variables so that
formulas in the schedule that refer to the variable names will pick up the values entered in
the cells.
2. An advanced step would be to have a cell in which the user can: Enter “1” if payments
are at the beginning of the period. Payments are assumed at the end of the period if the
cell is blank. This requires “if-then” statements within the formulas that refer to the cell.
3. The initial balance can be made to calculate the PV if that amount is not provided by the
user in the PV cell and to calculate the payments if the PV is provided by the user in the
PV cell. Thus, if “PV” is blank, the calculation will default to the “Payment.”
Provide students with various variable values to conduct several “what if?” exercises.
2. Google Analysis
Have students, individually or in groups, go to the most recent Target annual report at Target’s
website at www.target.com. Ask them to:
1. Compare the company’s lease commitments, both finance and operating, with those in the
2016 report. Are there any discernible trends? How might they be interpreted?
2. Has the company adopted the provisions of ASC 842?
3. Are any lease transactions reported on the statement of cash flows? If so, how?
3. Professional Skills Development Activities
The following are suggested assignments from the end-of-chapter material that will help your
students develop their communication, research, analysis, and judgment skills.
Communication Skills. Research Case 15–1 and Ethics Case 15–3 are suitable for student
presentation(s). In addition to Communication Cases 15–2 and 15–5, Research Case 15–1
can be adapted to ask students to write a memo to the controller supporting their position.
Questions 11 and 12, Problem 15–7, and Ethics Case 15–3 create good class discussions.
Research Skills. In their professional lives, our graduates will be required to locate and extract
relevant information from available resource material to determine the correct accounting
practice, perhaps identifying the appropriate authoritative literature to support a decision.
Exercises 37 and 28, Research Case 15–1, and IFRS Case 15–7 provide excellent
opportunities to help students develop this skill.
Analysis Skills. The “Broaden Your Perspective” section includes Analysis Cases that direct
students to gather, assemble, organize, process, or interpret date to provide options for
making business and investment decisions. In addition to Analysis Case 15–4, Exercises
15–3, 15–4, and 15–5, as well as Communication Cases 15–2 and 15–5 also provide
opportunities to develop analysis skills.
Judgment Skills. The “Broaden Your Perspective” section includes Judgment Cases that
require students to critically analyze issues to apply concepts learned to business situations
in order to evaluate options for decision making and provide an appropriate conclusion.
Questions 24 and 29, Problems 15–28, 15–29, and 15–30, and Trueblood Case 15–8 also
require students to exercise judgment.
Assignment Chart
Learning Est.
time
Questions Objective(s) Topic
(min.)
15–1 1 Substance over form 5
15–2 1 Interest on leases 5
15–3 2 Leases and installment notes compared 5
15–4 1 Lease classification 5
15–5 1 Lease classification 5
15–6 2 Finance/sales-type lease 5
15–7 3 Finance/sales-type lease 5
15–8 4 Operating lease 5
15–9 4 Operating lease 5
15–10 4 Operating lease 5
15–11 2,3 4 Right-of-use approach 5
15–12 3,4 Front loading 5
15–13 2,3 4 Discount rate 5
15–14 5 Short term lease 5
15–15 6 Uncertain lease payments 5
15–16 6 Purchase option 5
15–17 6 Uncertain lease term 5
15–18 6 Uncertain lease term 5
15–19 6 Reassessment 5
15–20 6 Guaranteed residual value 5
15–21 6 Guaranteed residual value and BPO 5
15–22 7 Nonlease payments 5
15–23 7 Initial direct costs 5
15–24 7 Initial direct costs 5
15–25 8 Disclosures 5
15–26 9 IFRS 5
15–27 9 IFRS 5
15–28 9 Sale-leaseback 5
15–29 A Sale-leaseback 5
Brief Learning Est.
time
Exercises Objective(s) Topic
(min.)
15–1 1 Lease classification 5
15–2 1,2 Lease classification 5
15–3 2 Lessee and lessor; calculate interest;
finance/sales-type lease
5
15–4
15–5
2
2
Finance lease; lessee; balance sheet effects
Finance lease; lessee; income statement effects
5
5
15–6 3 Sales-type lease; lessor; income statement
effects
5
15–7 3 Sales-type lease; lessor; calculate lease
payments
5
15–8 4 Operating lease 5
15–9 4 Operating lease 5
15–10 5 Short-term lease 5
15–11 6 Uncertain lease term 5
15–12 6 Uncertain lease payments 5
15–13 2,3,6 Purchase option; lessor; sales-type lease 5
15–14 2,3,6 Residual value; sales-type lease 10
15–15 6 Guaranteed residual value 5
15–16 3,7 Lessor’s initial direct costs; sales-type lease 5
15–17 2,7 Nonlease payments 5
Learning Est.
time
Exercises Objective(s) Topic
(min.)
15–1 1 Lease classification 15
15–2 2 Finance lease; calculate lease payments 15
15–3 2 Finance lease; lessee; balance sheet and income
statement effects
15
15–4 2 Sales-type lease; lessor; balance sheet and
income statement effects
25
15–5 3 Sales-type lease; lessor; balance sheet and
income statement effects
15
15–6 2 Finance lease; lessee 25
15–7 2 Sales-type lease with no selling profit; lessor 20
15–8 3 Sales-type lease with selling profit; lessor;
calculate lease payments
20
15–9 2 Lessor calculation of annual lease payments;
lessee calculation of asset and liability
30
15–10 2 Lessor calculation of annual lease payments;
lessee calculation of asset and liability
30
15–11 2,3 Lessee and lessor; sales-type lease with selling
profit
30
15–12 2 Lessee; finance lease; effect on financial
statements
10
15–13 4 Lessee; operating lease; effect on financial
statements
20
15–14 4 Lessor; operating lease; effect on financial
statements
25
15–15 3 Sales-type lease; lessor; income statement
effects
25
15–16 4 Lessee; operating lease 25
15–17 4 Lessee and lessor; operating lease 25
15–18 5 Short-term lease 25
15–19 2,6 Lessee; renewal option 20
15–20 2,6 Variable lease payments 15
15–21 2,6 Lessee; variable lease payments 30
15–22 2,6 Lessee; variable lease payments 15
15–23 2,6 Lessee; renewal options 20
15–24 2,6 Calculation of annual lease payments; residual
value
15
15–25 2,6 Lessor; sales-type lease; residual value; effect on
financial statements
20
15–26 2,6 Lease concepts; finance/sales-type leases;
guaranteed and unguaranteed residual value
20
15–27 2,6 Lessee; lessee guaranteed residual value 15
15–28 2,6 Calculation of annual lease payments; purchase
option
15
15–29 2,6 Finance lease; purchase options; lessee 10
15–30 2,6 Purchase option; lessor; sales-type lease; no
selling profit
15
15–31 2,7 Nonlease payments; lessor and lessee 20
15–32 2,7 Lessor’s initial direct costs; sales-type lease 25
15–33 3,7 Lessor’s initial direct costs; sales-type lease 25
15–34 4,7 Lessor’s initial direct costs; operating lease 15
15–35 2,3,4,5,
6,7,8
Concepts; terminology 15
15–36 8 FASB codification research; reassessment of
lease terms
25
15–37 8 FASB codification research 20
15–38 A Sale-leaseback 20
15–39 A Sale-leaseback; operating lease 15
Learning Est.
time
Problems Objective(s) Topic
(min.)
15–1 2 Integrating problem; bonds; note; lease 15
15–2 2 Finance lease 25
15–3 2 Lease amortization schedule 30
15–4 1,2,3 Finance/sales-type lease; lessee and lessor 20
15–5 4 Lessee; operating lease; advance payment;
leasehold improvement
35
15–6 4 Operating lease; scheduled rent increases 35
15–7 2,6 Lease amortization schedule 45
15–8 2,4,6 Reassessment of lease term 45
15–9 2,6 Lease concepts; sales-type leases;
guaranteed and unguaranteed residual value
55
15–10 3,6 Sales-type lease; purchase option
reasonably certain to be exercised before
lease term ends; lessor and lessee
45
15–11 4,6 Change in lease term; operating lease:
lessor
50
15–12 2,6 Lessee; renewal option 25
15–13 2,6 Lessee and lessor; lessee guaranteed
residual value
60
15–14 2,3 Lessee and lessor; lessor; sales-type lease
with selling profit; residual value
20
15–15 2,7 Nonlease payments; lessor and lessee 30
15–16 2,3,4,7 Lessor’s initial direct costs; operating and
sales-type leases
60
15–17 2,7 Nonlease costs; lessor and lessee 50
15–18 3,6,7 Lessee-guaranteed residual value;
unguaranteed residual value; nonlease
costs; different interest rates for lessor and
lessee
50
15–19 2,7 Initial direct costs; sales-type lease 35
15–20 3,7 Initial direct costs; sales-type lease with a
selling profit
25
15–21 2,5,6 Guaranteed residual value; sales-type lease 25
15–22 2,6,7 Unguaranteed residual value; nonlease
payments; sales-type lease
25
15–23 3,6,7 Purchase option reasonably certain to be
exercised before lease term ends; nonlease
payments; sales-type lease
25
15–24 2,7 Lessee and lessor; lessee guaranteed
residual value
35
15–25 4,7 Operating lease; uneven lease payments 40
15–26 4,7 Operating lease; uneven lease payments 40
15–27 2,3,6 Modification of a lease 40
15–28 2,8 Finance lease; lessee; financial statement
effects
30
15–29 2,8 Sales-type lease; lessor; financial statement
effects
30
15–30 3,8 Sales-type lease; lessor; financial statement
effects
30
15–31 A Sale-leaseback 25
Star Problems
Learning Est.
time
Cases Objective(s) Topic
(min.)
Research Case 15–1 2,8 FASB codification; locate and extract relevant
information and authoritative support for a
financial reporting issue; finance lease; sublease
of a leased asset
60
Communication Case 15–2 1,2,3,6,7 Classification issues; lessee accounting; group
interaction
40
Ethics Case 15–3 3 Leasehold improvements 20
Analysis Case 15–4 1,2,3,4 Lease concepts; Walmart 35
Communication Case 15–5 A Where’s the gain? 45
Trueblood Case 15–6 3 Lease 45
IFRS Case 15–7 1,2,4,9 Lease classification; U.S. GAAP 35
Target Case
Air France–KLM Case
2,4
9
Accounting for leases; Target
IFRS; accounting for leases; Air France–KLM
20
30