Question

Rhone-Metro Industries manufactures equipment that is sold or leased. On December 31, 2021, Rhone-Metro leased equipment to Western Soya Co. for a noncancelable stated lease term of four years ending December 31, 2025, at which time possession of the leased asset will revert back to Rhone-Metro. The equipment cost $320,000 to manufacture and has an expected useful life of six years. Its normal sales price is $404,357. The expected residual value of $18,000 at December 31, 2025, is not guaranteed. Western Soya Co. is reasonably certain to exercise a purchase option on December 30, 2024, at an option price of $8,000. Equal payments under the lease are $147,000 (including $4,000 annual maintenance costs) and are due on December 31 of each year. The first payment was made on December 31, 2021. Western Soya’s incremental borrowing rate is 10%. Western Soya knows the interest rate implicit in the lease payments is 8%. Both companies use straight-line amortization.


Hint: A lease term ends for accounting purposes when an option becomes exercisable if it’s expected to be exercised (i.e., a BPO). (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)

Required:

1. Show how Rhone-Metro calculated the $147,000 annual lease payments.
2. How should this lease be classified (a) by Western Soya Co. (the lessee) and (b) by Rhone-Metro Industries (the lessor)?
3. Prepare the appropriate entries for both Western Soya Co. and Rhone-Metro on December 31, 2021.
4. Prepare an amortization schedule(s) describing the pattern of interest over the lease term for the lessee and the lessor.
5. Prepare the appropriate entries for both Western Soya and Rhone-Metro on December 31, 2022 (the second rent payment and amortization).
6. Prepare the appropriate entries for both Western Soya and Rhone-Metro on December 30, 2024, assuming the purchase option is exercised on that date.

Show how Rhone-Metro calculated the $147,000 annual lease payments. (Round your intermediate and final answers to nearest whole dollar.)

	BPO Price Table or calculator function: n = i = Present Value Amount to be recovered Amount to be recovered through periodic lease payments Lease Payments Table or calculator function: n = i = Lease Payments Lease payments at the beginning of each of three years: Lease payments including executory costs

How should this lease be classified (a) by Western Soya Co. (the lessee) and (b) by Rhone-Metro Industries (the lessor)? (Round your intermediate and final answers to nearest whole dollar.)

	Western Soya Co. Rhone-Metro Industries

Prepare the appropriate entries for Western Soya Co. on December 31, 2021. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Round your intermediate and final answers to nearest whole dollar.)

Journal entry worksheet

• Record lease in the books of lessee.

Note: Enter debits before credits.

	Date General Journal Debit Credit December 31, 2021

Answer 1