Treatment in The United States
Under US accounting standards, a finance (capital) lease is a lease which meets at least one of the following criteria:
- ownership of the asset is transferred to the lessee at the end of the lease term;
- the lease contains a bargain purchase option to buy the equipment at less than fair market value;
- the lease term equals or exceeds 75% of the asset's estimated useful life;
- the present value of the lease payments equals or exceeds 90% of the total original cost of the equipment.
Following the GAAP accounting point of view, such a lease is classified as essentially equivalent to a purchase by the lessee and is capitalized on the lessee's balance sheet. See Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13 (FAS 13) for more details of classification and accounting.
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