Reference no: EM13824330
Now Leasing Inc
Now Leasing Inc, a worldwide airfreight service company based in US, has entered into a lease agreement with First Lessor Co., to lease three cargo airplanes for a 20-year non-cancelable lease. The lease is classified as a capital lease in accordance with ASC 840, Leases. Annual lease payments shall be $3 million per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The lease agreement is signed on December 1, 2012 and Now Leasing’s right to use the aircrafts begins on January 1, 2013.
Various provisions and other facts from the lease are listed below:
1. First Lessor requires Now Leasing to pay $50,000 at the beginning of each year for other expenses (e.g., insurance, taxes and maintenance) related to the leased aircrafts.
2. Now Leasing pays Smith & Perry Inc., its external legal counsel, $1 million in connection with negotiating the lease agreement. Now Leasing is also required to pay $2 million of legal fees incurred by First Lessor Co.
3. The lease agreement stipulates that for each calendar year of the term of the lease after 2013, Now Leasing will pay minimum lease in an amount equal to $3 million increased (but not decreased) by the same percentage as the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from January 1 of the prior year until January 1 of each respective year. The most recent annual increase in CPI as of the inception of the lease was 2%.
Required:
For each provision presented, evaluate whether the costs or potential costs associated with the provision should be included in “minimum lease payments,” as defined in ASC 840, Leases.
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