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  • Nov 23, 2013, 05:14 PM
    User5000
    Capital Lease Buy-Out
    A capital lease was recorded for piece of equipment. There was a buy-out option, but the price of the buy-out was not specified in the lease. The final lease payment is now being made and the lessor has determined the buy-out price to be $10,000. How is the $10,000 cash payment recorded, since the loan is fully amortized with no final buy-out payment remaining, and the asset is fully depreciated. Is this recorded as another fixed asset and depreciated even though the original capital asset is fully depreciated?
  • Nov 24, 2013, 05:14 AM
    Fidget1
    By the sounds of it, the asset has been depreciated over the lease term rather than its useful life, so still has useful life remaining - after all, who's going to pay $10k at the end of a lease term for something that is no use to them?

    In which case, you would record a new asset at $10k and depreciate it over the remainder of its useful life.

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