Penguin Company is planning to lease a $5 million machine to produce goods for eventual sale. Penguin is able to structure the lease so as to classify it as either an operating or a finance lease. Advantages to Penguin of classifying this lease as an operating lease are least likely to include that:
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Cash payments due under an operating lease must be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements for each of the following five years and in aggregate. Operating leases are simpler to account for and the often adverse ratio implications of offsetting increases in assets and liabilities are avoided.
Which of the following statements regarding finance and operating leases is least accurate?
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If the lease is an operating lease there is no entry made on the balance sheet for the lessee. For finance leases, the leased asset and liability are recognized on the balance sheet by the amount equal to the present value of the minimum lease payments using as the discount rate the lower of the lessor's implicit rate or the lessee's incremental borrowing rate.
Classifying a lease as an operating lease for a lessee, as opposed to a finance lease, will result in:
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For a lessee using operating leases, the current ratio will be higher, the debt/equity ratio will be lower, and the asset turnover will be higher than they would be with finance leases. With operating leases, assets and liabilities are lower.
Which of the following is least likely disclosed in the financial statement footnotes of a lessee?
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The interest rate used by the lessee is not a required disclosure.
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