Direct Financing Lease (Lessor's Perspective)

This video shows how the lessor should account for a direct financing lease. Lessors typically account for a lease as an operating lease or as a sales-type lease, with the difference being that the risks of ownership are transferred from the lessor to the lessee with a sales-type lease (and thus it is treated as similar to a sale). However, there is a third classification: the direct financing lease. A lessor must classify a lease as direct financing when an unrelated third party guarantees the residual value. The guaranteed residual value by a third party means the lessor has not completely transferred all the risks (it now bears credit risk). Thus, the lessor accounts for the lease similar to the sales-type lease but with an importance difference: it initially defers the gross profit. This deferred gross profit is recognized as actual gross profit gradually over the term of the lease.— Edspira is the creation of Michael McLaughlin, an award-winning professor who went from teenage homelessness to a PhD. Edspira’s mission is to make a high-quality business education freely available to the world. — SUBSCRIBE FOR A FREE 53-PAGE GUIDE TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, PLUS: • A 23-PAGE GUIDE TO MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING • A 44-PAGE GUIDE TO U.S. TAXATION • A 75-PAGE GUIDE TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS • MANY MORE FREE PDF GUIDES AND SPREADSHEETS * http://eepurl.com/dIaa5z — SUPPORT EDSPIRA ON PATREON *https://www.patreon.com/prof_mclaughlin — GET CERTIFIED IN FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS, IFRS 16, AND ASSET-LIABILITY MANAGEMENT * https://edspira.thinkific.com — LISTEN TO THE SCHEME PODCAST * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scheme/id1522352725 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4WaNTqVFxISHlgcSWNT1kc * Website: https://www.edspira.com/podcast-2/ — GET TAX TIPS ON TIKTOK * https://www.tiktok.com/@prof_mclaughlin — ACCESS INDEX OF VIDEOS * https://www.edspira.com/index — CONNECT WITH EDSPIRA * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Edspira * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edspiradotcom * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edspira — CONNECT WITH MICHAEL * Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Prof_McLaughlin * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-michael-mclaughlin — ABOUT EDSPIRA AND ITS CREATOR * https://www.edspira.com/about/ * https://michaelmclaughlin.com