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Reassessments are required when an event does not involve renegotiating the lease terms and conditions, but when facts, assumptions, or other circumstances change. For example, a lessee may change their decision about exercising an option within a lease.

If the modified terms of the lease agreement reduce the lessee's rights to the underlying asset(s), then it is accounted for as a partial or full termination. If the lease modification fully relinquishes the lessee's rights to the underlying asset(s), the lessee accounts for the modification as a full termination.

A lease modification is a change to the terms and conditions of a contract that results in a change in the scope of or the consideration for a lease (for example, a change to the terms and conditions of the contract that adds or terminates the right to use one or more underlying assets or extends or shortens the ...

A lease modification includes adding or terminating the right to use one or more underlying assets, or extending or shortening the contractual lease term. IFRS 16's lease modification guidance can be summarised into the diagram overleaf.

Lease modifications can change a lease so drastically in scope or consideration that the modification creates a new lease. Under ASC 842, two criteria must be met to result in a separate contract: Modification grants additional rights of use (i.e. additional floors or square footage in the building)

A lease modification includes adding or terminating the right to use one or more underlying assets, or extending or shortening the contractual lease term. IFRS 16's lease modification guidance can be summarised into the diagram overleaf.

How to apply lease modification under ASC 840. Under ASC 840, a change in a lease other than to extend the lease terms requires that a test be performed to determine if a new lease has been created and, if so, a second test determines the accounting for that new lease.