Problem 15-15
Quality receives two separate benefits in the lease contract – the right to use
equipment and maintenance on that equipment. So, payments specified in the lease
contract contain a separate lease component (use of equipment for $51,000) and a
nonlease component (maintenance service of $5,000). There also is a fixed
payment for hazard insurance that does not transfer to the lessee a separate good or
service. Payments for hazard insurance and property taxes are specifically
identified in the lease accounting guidance as part of the lease payments (to be
capitalized) rather than nonlease components (to be expensed separately). Thus,
the right-of-use asset and lease liability (and the lessor’s lease receivable) would be
measured as the present value of the $51,000 lease payments, not $56,000.
At the beginning of the lease, Quality records a right-of-use asset and lease
liability for the present value of the ten $51,000 lease payments. For the first
payment of $56,000, $5,000 is recorded as maintenance expense and the remaining
$51,000 reduces the lease liability.
January 1, 2018
Quality Services (Lessee)
Right-of-use asset ([$56,000 – 5,000] x 6.32825**)322,741
Lease payable (present value of lease payments) 322,741
* present value of $1: n=10, i=12%
** present value of an annuity due of $1: n=10, i=12%