Split Conditional Field Lease For Free

It is not always possible or desirable for an agreement for lease to be unconditional. Often, there is a need for an agreement for lease where the ultimate grant of the lease is conditional upon certain conditions being satisfied.

A lessee may elect to include both the lease and nonlease components as a single component, by asset class, and account for it as a lease.

From a lease accounting perspective, a capital lease is treated as if the lessee has purchased the asset using debt financing. The asset and the associated lease liability are recorded on the lessee's balance sheet. Each lease payment is allocated between the reduction of the lease liability and interest expense.

FASB ASC 842-10-15-37 provides a practical expedient to combine lease and non-lease components and treat the combined component as a lease component (practical expedient) which may be elected by underlying class of assets.

You determine if a lease has separate lease components by considering the interdependencies of individual assets covered in a contract. A key consideration is whether the supplier will use multiple assets, or a group of assets that work together, to fulfill the arrangement.

Generally, a government should account for the lease and non-lease components of a lease as separate contracts. If a lease involves multiple underlying assets, lessees and lessors in certain cases should account for each underlying asset as a separate lease contract.

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.