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Counting Leases Before They Hatch A proposed accounting change will dramatically affect how landlords and tenants treat leases. |
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Averting Revenue-Recognition Angst FASB and the IASB seek to allay worries over new rules for booking revenue. |
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Balance-Sheet Blues Companies wait and wonder about the impact of changes to lease accounting. |
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Hidden in Plain Sight The Securities and Exchange Commission doesn't like lease accounting, and it's not going to take it any more. Leasing may soon have to be justified on economic terms alone. |
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You May Be Liable For That Lease The Financial Accounting Standards Board review of lease accounting standards could really hammer retailers. |
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Technical Difficulties As the pace of accounting-rule changes intensifies, can IT systems keep up? |
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The Potential Impact of Lease Accounting Changes on Corporate Real Estate Decision-Making With the goal of improving lease information transparency and comparability, the new standards could have residual effects on the way in which companies form decisions regarding their real estate needs. |
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A Lesson on Leasing Leasing IT equipment can be an attractive (and cost-effective) alternative to buying it -- if you study these lessons. |
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Policy Watch Advice and news for CCIM designation holders on lobbying efforts. |
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These Stocks Are More Dangerous Than You Think New regulations could whip the rug out from under companies like these that have been abusing the use of operating leases. |
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Ronald Fink |
Double Whammy As real estate markets sag, companies that used synthetic leases to move real estate liabilities off the balance sheet could face a costly dilemma. They may find banks unwilling to roll the loan over during tough economic times, forcing them to sell property in a depressed market. |
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Linda Corman |
(Don't) Look Deep into My Lease Terms can be mesmerizing, but companies get a rude awakening when leasing's real cost is revealed. |
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Healthcare Headaches Various issues delay medical real estate construction. |
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Long Live the King? As international accounting standards close in on GAAP, the U.S. standard-setter considers its mortality. |
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Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance. |
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One Size Gives Fits to All Financial executives say that proposed changes to revenue-recognition rules ignore real-world realities. |
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Mind the GAAP What advantages does the income-tax basis accounting method offer? |
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Sale-Leasebacks Provide Capital for Core Business Investment Sale-leasebacks allow companies to unlock their real estate assets' equity, raise capital to reduce debt or invest in their core business, and strengthen their balance sheets. |
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FASB Options Rule Draws Rants, Raves Manufacturing and tech trade associations attack the FASB proposed rule changes for booking stock options and other share-based payments. |
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Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
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Johnson & Mahoney |
The GSA Way Government leases can be lucrative -- if you know the rules. |
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Lease Option or Sale? What is the economic reality of your transaction? |
The Motley Fool
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Bill Mann |
FASB: Ready to Rumble The Financial Accounting Standards Board announces it intends to require companies to expense stock options. |
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Leibs & Leone |
The Blame Game Goes into Overtime The debate over the fairness and value of fair-value accounting intensified last month as lawmakers took accounting rule-setters to task for the role that fair value has allegedly played in the current economic crisis. |
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Philip F. Himovitz |
Ground Control Owners and developers unearth opportunities through creative land leases. |
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August 1, 2003
Craig Schneider |
Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again. |
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Lease Logic Property acquisitions require a comprehensive approach to existing-lease due diligence. |
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Special Issue 2005
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One World, One GAAP Global businesses and international investors are increasingly demanding accounting information that they can understand when running businesses and making investment decisions on a worldwide basis. |
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Kris Frieswick |
Is Fair Value Flawed? Some say FASB's reform proposals for merger-and-acquisition expense-reporting could stifle corporate management planning. |
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September 15, 2004
Bill Mann |
Exhausting Every Option The International Employee Stock Option Coalition, a high tech industry lobbying group in Washington D.C., plays its latest gambit on trying to de-claw options expensing. |
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Building Blocks Leasing may be the solution to grow your business quickly. |
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Jul/Aug 2006
Guglielmo & Trowbridge |
Leasing Lessons Analyzing commercial real estate leases in today's rapidly changing marketplace is a daunting task. But if performed properly, this process can have a very important economic impact on landlords, owners, and investors. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2008
Joe Gose |
Enron Effect Lingers Over Synthetic Leases Once a formidable competitor to sale-leaseback transactions, synthetic leases have all but vanished from the playing field years after the Enron scandal highlighted the structure's lack of transparency. |
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House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2002
Beth Mattson-Teig |
A Closer Look Corporate chicanery, missed earnings and a slow, painful economic recovery have forced net lease professionals to question the creditworthiness of potential clients like never before. |
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Drummond et al. |
Triple-Net Triple Threat Investors vie for the safety, convenience, and ROI of top net-leased deals. |
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An International Spat Over Bank Bookkeeping A dispute between the U.S. and international accounting standards boards is holding up a global agreement. |
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Rosfelder & Cannon |
Resizing or Right-Sizing? Prepare for the smaller (and smarter) corporate office. |
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Improved Property Management Tech advances help level the playing field for non-institutional owners. |
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Revenue Recovery Lease audits can reveal hidden income potential. |
The Motley Fool
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Unlocking Hidden Debt The balance sheet doesn't always paint the whole picture. Fortunately, a quick review of the annual report section on leases and a good rule of thumb can unlock the true leverage picture, often with surprising results. |
