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The lessor reports the lease as a leased asset on the balance sheet and individual lease payments as income on the income and cash flow statements. The lessee reports the lease as both an asset and a liability on the balance sheet due to their stake as a potential owner of the asset and their required payment.

A lease will be recorded on the balance sheet as a right-of-use (ROU) asset and lease liability. The lease liability is the payment obligation over the term of the lease contract, while the ROU asset represents the control of the asset under the lease contract.

Lease Expense means, with respect to any Person, for any period for such Person and its subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, lease and rental expense accrued during such period under all leases and rental agreements, other than Capital Leases and leases of personal property, determined in conformity with GAAP.

A master lease is a continuing lease arrangement, preferred by customers who anticipate multiple installations over a sustained period of time. This arrangement allows the customer to sign a single agreement and make one agreed payment, instead of several agreements, with several separate payments.

Let's walk through a lease accounting example. On January 1, 2022, Company XYZ signed an eight-year lease agreement for equipment. Annual payments of $28,500 are to be made at the beginning of each year. At the end of the lease, the equipment will revert to the lessor.

Lease payments. As the company receives lease invoices from the lessor, record a portion of each invoice as interest expense and use the remainder to reduce the balance in the capital lease liability account. Eventually, this means that the balance in the capital lease liability account should be brought down to zero.

The company can make the finance lease journal entry by debiting the lease asset account and crediting the lease liability account. In this journal entry, the amount of lease asset or lease liability recorded is the fair value of total lease payments.