iLease Management LLC (“iLease”) has been providing insightful research and recommended approaches into the proposed lease accounting changes since 2011. We do provide a brief overview and update of the proposed lease accounting changes in this document, but you will find that this whitepaper is different than others that we have authored. In this whitepaper… Read More »
The FASB ASC 842 Lease Accounting Standard changes in lease accounting has been finalized for public companies and will be effective to private companies at the end of 2021. This will many business entities throughout the United States. The accounting change will make lease management and accounting more complex. The new accounting model will require… Read More »
A survey on the impact of the new lease accounting standard (as it pertains to lessees) was recently completed and its results validated some of the feedback that we have been providing over the last few years about how organizations are responding to the new change and major pain points that must be addressed as… Read More »
One of the areas of the new lease standard that has not received that much attention is executory costs. However, as lessees consummate new leases that must be transitioned into the new standard, this is an area that should not be overlooked. Executory Costs that Transfer a Good or Service The new lease standard only… Read More »
Earlier this week, I participated on a webinar on the new lease accounting standards. The webinar was given by one of the major accounting firms and was specifically directed at how the new lease standards will impact lessees. One of the polling questions asked of participants during the course of the webinar was whether, in… Read More »
iLease Management LLC (“iLease”), developer of iLeasePro, an enterprise cloud-based Lease Management and Accounting solution, has announced a major step forward in its strategic partnership and integration with Sage Intacct, a leader in cloud-based financial management and accounting software. iLease has released the capability to take advantage of Sage Intacct’s dimension feature to seamlessly track… Read More »
Earlier this month, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) which would provide an additional transition option when adopting the new lease accounting standard. Under the proposed ASU, organizations would have the option to use the effective date as the date of adoption instead of at the earliest comparative… Read More »
In June 2017, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) issued Statement No. 87 – Leases which establishes new accounting standards to be applied to all lease transactions for state and local governments. The Standard is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2019 with earlier application encouraged. The governmental standard follows most of the… Read More »
The Subsidiary function in iLeasePro allows a corporation with multiple subsidiaries to maintain its entire corporate wide lease portfolio on a single iLeasePro platform. When it is time to upload periodic journal entries to a general ledger system of record, the user designates the subsidiary to which the lease is associated and the entry is… Read More »
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued the new lease accounting standard on February 25, 2016. As it pertains to lessees, the new standard requires that the liability for all leases (except narrowly defined short-term leases) must be recognized on the balance sheet of a lessee at the discounted present value of future lease payments… Read More »