Question

On January 1, 2016, Ballieu Company leases specialty equipment with an economic life of 8 years to Anderson Company. The lease contains the following terms and provisions: • The lease is noncancelable and has a term of 8 years. • The annual rentals are $34,500, payable at the beginning of each year. • The interest rate implicit in the lease is 11%. • Anderson agrees to pay all executory costs and is given an option to buy the equipment for $1 at the end of the lease term, December 31, 2024. • The cost of the equipment to the lessor is $137,000, and the fair retail value is approximately $197,100. • The lessor incurs no material initial direct costs. • The collectibility of the rentals is reasonably assured, and there are no important uncertainties surrounding the amount of unreimbursable costs yet to be incurred by the lessor. • The lessor estimates that the fair value is expected to be significantly greater than $1 at the end of the lease term.

The lessor calculates that the present value on January 1, 2016 of 8 annual payments in advance of $34,500 discounted at 11% is $197,070.76 (the $1 purchase option is ignored as immaterial).

Required: 1. Next Level Identify the classification of the lease transaction from Ballieu’s point of view. 2. Prepare all the journal entries for Ballieu for the years 2016 and 2017.

Answer 1