Worked example · EX:lease-identification-lessee-lessor-and-sale-leaseback/linden-peak-lessor-three-lanes

Keep the lessor's three reporting lanes separate

Compare sales type commencement profit, direct financing deferred profit and residual support, and operating retained asset income with explicit net investment controls.

Updated Aug 8, 2026 Review due Nov 8, 2026
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  1. Problem
  2. Sales-type: recognize the transfer and later financing income
  3. Direct financing: expose residuals and deferred profit
  4. Operating: retain the underlying asset
  5. Three release questions
Worked-example setupScope and assumptions
  • Linden Peak, the three leases, classification, collectibility, residual, fair-value, carrying-amount, rate, and initial-direct-cost conclusions are fictional and supplied.
  • The sales-type line has five $20,000 year-end payments, a 7 percent implicit rate, $75,000 carrying amount, $82,003.94871895191 fair value, and $1,000 initial direct costs.
  • The direct-financing line has six $9,500 year-end payments, $13,000 unrelated-third-party guaranteed residual, $7,000 unguaranteed residual, $54,000 carrying amount, $62,000 fair value, $2,000 initial direct costs, 4.6458369707536584 percent gross measurement rate, and 8.257987131214095 percent net-investment yield.
  • The operating space has four $12,000 year-end payments, $100,000 carrying amount and fair value, and $2,000 qualifying initial direct costs; depreciation is outside this bounded schedule.
  • Collectibility is supplied as probable and the ASU 2021-05 variable-payment/day-one-loss exception does not apply.
Period
Commencement through the end of each fictional lease term
Units
US dollars and annual periods
Rounding
Retain full precision; display dollars to cents and rates to at least six decimals

Problem

Linden Peak leases three assets to customers. The classification committee has supplied one sales-type, one direct-financing, and one operating conclusion. The close team must prove that each route leaves the correct asset, recognizes the correct commencement result, and produces a subsequent schedule that ends at the expected residual.

Sales-type: recognize the transfer and later financing income

The PV of five $20,000 year-end payments at 7 percent is $82,003.94871895191. With no residual, that is both lease receivable and initial net investment. Against the $75,000 carrying amount, commencement selling profit is $7,003.948718951913. Because fair value differs from carrying amount, the supplied $1,000 initial direct cost is expensed.

Year 1 interest income is $82,003.94871895191 × 7 percent, or $5,740.2764103266345. After the $20,000 receipt, net investment is $67,744.23. The fifth receipt settles it to zero.

Direct financing: expose residuals and deferred profit

At the supplied 4.6458369707536584-percent measurement rate:

Component Present value
Six payments plus $13,000 guaranteed residual $58,669.52 lease receivable
$7,000 unguaranteed residual $5,330.48 residual asset
Gross components $64,000.00
Deferred selling profit $(8,000.00)
Initial net investment $56,000.00

The $8,000 deferred amount is the receivable less the underlying asset's $48,669.52 carrying amount net of residual, less $2,000 qualifying initial direct costs. No selling profit is recognized at commencement.

The 8.257987131214095-percent net-investment yield produces Year 1 interest of $4,624.472793479893. Six receipts reduce net investment to the expected $20,000 combined guaranteed and unguaranteed residual. The schedule therefore does not settle to zero.

Operating: retain the underlying asset

Linden Peak keeps the $100,000 underlying space in PP&E and continues the applicable depreciation and impairment accounting. It recognizes $12,000 annual lease income and $500 annual initial-direct-cost expense, for $11,500 net lease income before depreciation. Initial net investment is zero.

Three release questions

Lane Asset after commencement Day-one result Later income
Sales-type Net investment Selling profit or loss under collectibility controls Interest on net investment
Direct financing Net investment net of deferred profit Selling loss if applicable; selling profit deferred Interest including deferred profit pattern
Operating Underlying PP&E No sale-style profit Lease income; continued asset accounting

The schedule verifies supplied amounts and rates. It does not classify the leases, establish collectibility, value the assets or residuals, decide whether ASU 2021-05 applies, or approve the disclosure.

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lessor schedules
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{
  "direct_financing_line": {
    "carrying_amount": 54000,
    "classification": "direct_financing",
    "fair_value": 62000,
    "guaranteed_residual_value": 13000,
    "initial_direct_costs": 2000,
    "measurement_annual_rate": 0.046458369707536584,
    "net_investment_annual_rate": 0.08257987131214095,
    "payment_amount": 9500,
    "payment_timing": "arrears",
    "payments_per_year": 1,
    "total_periods": 6,
    "unguaranteed_residual_value": 7000
  },
  "operating_space": {
    "carrying_amount": 100000,
    "classification": "operating",
    "fair_value": 100000,
    "guaranteed_residual_value": 0,
    "initial_direct_costs": 2000,
    "measurement_annual_rate": 0.05,
    "net_investment_annual_rate": null,
    "payment_amount": 12000,
    "payment_timing": "arrears",
    "payments_per_year": 1,
    "total_periods": 4,
    "unguaranteed_residual_value": 0
  },
  "sales_type_line": {
    "carrying_amount": 75000,
    "classification": "sales_type",
    "fair_value": 82003.94871895191,
    "guaranteed_residual_value": 0,
    "initial_direct_costs": 1000,
    "measurement_annual_rate": 0.07,
    "net_investment_annual_rate": null,
    "payment_amount": 20000,
    "payment_timing": "arrears",
    "payments_per_year": 1,
    "total_periods": 5,
    "unguaranteed_residual_value": 0
  }
}

Recomputed result

Values recomputed by the curriculum loader
MeasureValue
direct financing line deferred selling profit8,000
direct financing line ending net investment20,000
direct financing line initial net investment56,000
direct financing line lease receivable58,669.5202
direct financing line period 1 interest income4,624.4728
direct financing line unguaranteed residual asset5,330.4798
operating space periodic initial direct cost expense500
operating space periodic lease income12,000
operating space periodic net lease income11,500
operating space underlying asset retained100,000
sales type line initial direct cost expense1,000
sales type line lease receivable82,003.9487
sales type line period 1 interest income5,740.2764
sales type line recognized selling profit7,003.9487