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Accounting for operating leases ?A lessor recognizes operating lease payments as income on a straight-line basis or, if more representative of the pattern in which benefit from use of the underlying asset is diminished, another systematic basis.? Accounting for an operating lease under ASC 842 is basically the same.

Accounting for an Operating Lease Click on the Create icon ?. In the Other column, choose Journal Entry. Add the relevant asset account for Operating Lease- Right-of-Use asset. Debit the present value of your lease payments. Choose the applicable liability account and input the present value of your lease payments.

New lease accounting standards are in effect as of January 1, 2022. ASC 842 applies to nonpublic entities and retains a two-category approach: operating leases and finance leases, which replaces the legacy term ?capital leases.?

The accounting treatment for operating leases under US GAAP is: Operating leases are shown as an asset on the balance sheet, valued as the present value of the lease payments (not the market value of the asset) The lease liability is shown on the balance sheet (similarly, the present value of the lease payments)

The equipment account in the balance sheet is debited by the present value of the minimum lease payments, and the lease liability account is the difference between the value of the equipment and cash paid at the beginning of the year.

In their books, the lessee records the equipment as a purchase and then depreciates it over its useful life (lease period). At the same time, the lessee needs to record a liability as well for the regular lease payments that they would be making over the lease period.

Under the new lease standard, all leases must be recognized as both an asset and offsetting liability for future lease payments. One key to knowing that you have a lease rather than another type of contract is whether you have the right to control or use an asset, also called the right-of-use, or ROU Asset.