The chief operations officer (COO) of Frozen Ltd plans to lease refrigerated trucks from Cool Trucks Ltd.
Question:
The chief operations officer (COO) of Frozen Ltd plans to lease refrigerated trucks from Cool Trucks Ltd. Cool Trucks offers to enter into a non-cancellable lease agreement starting on 30/6/2017.
The following are the provisions of the lease agreement:
The fair value of the office furniture equipment is $94,907 at 30 June 2017.
The present value of the minimum lease payments is: $94,626.
The lease term is for 5 years and the economic life of the vehicle is 6 years.
The annual lease payments are made in advance with $23,000 due immediately and annual payments of $23,000 on 30 June 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Annual executor costs borne by Frozen Ltd amount to $3,000.
The contract specifies that Frozen Ltd will have to guarantee 95% of the residual value of $7,500 at the end of the lease term on 30 June 2022. The estimated residual value at the end of the asset’s useful life is $6,000.
The COO of Frozen Ltd does not expect that the trucks will be needed after the lease term expires.
The interest rate implicit in the lease is 6%.
Required:
Prove that the interest rate implicit in the lease is 6% and explain the purpose of the implicit interest rate to the COO.
Prepare a schedule of the lease payments to be made by Frozen Ltd for the duration of the lease.
Organizational behavior
ISBN: 9780077379438
5th edition
Authors: Steven L. McShane, Mary Ann Von Glinow