Reference no: EM132823631
On 30 June 2014, Elliott Ltd enters into a non-cancellable three-year lease agreement with Easy Finance Ltd to lease an item of machinery. At the inception of the lease, the machinery has a fair value of $71,272.
- The machinery has an estimated useful life of four years. The residual value of the machinery at the end of the lease term is $10,000 and this has been guaranteed by Elliott Ltd. Elliott Ltd intends to return the machinery to Easy Finance Ltd at the end of the lease term.
- The terms of the lease agreement require Elliott Ltd to make three annual payments of $23,000 commencing on 30 June 2015.
- Elliott Ltd's policy is to depreciate leased assets using the straight-line method.
- The interest rate implicit in the lease is 5%.
Required
Problem (a) Determine whether Elliott Ltd should classify the lease as an operating lease or a finance lease. Justify your answer.
Problem (b) How, from the perspective of the lessee, is the interest rate implicit in the lease defined? What interest rate would Elliott Ltd use if it could not determine the interest rate implicit in the lease at the inception of the lease?
Problem (c) Assume that the lease is classified as a finance lease by both Elliott Ltd and Easy Finance Ltd. Provide the journal entries in the books of both Elliott Ltd and Easy Finance Ltd on 30 June 2014 and 30 June 2015 to account for the lease.
Problem (d) How would your answer to (c) change if the fair value of the item of machinery as at 30 June 2014 was $66,000? Justify your answer.
Problem (e) What would happen if, at the end of the lease term on 30 June 2017, the machinery was returned to Easy Finance Ltd who immediately sold it for $8,000? Justify your answer.