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Advantages of leasing to lessees
Protection against obsolescence: Leasing permits you to exchange or add equipment at any point during the term of your lease. It allows you to stay at the forefront of technology.
Provides a hedge against inflation: Leasing is a protection against inflation. Hence, if you pay $500.00 per month today, you will always pay that monthly payment over the term of your lease. It will, therefore, be easier to make your payments as time goes by. You pay the future use of your equipment with a devalued dollar of tomorrow.
Maintain your working capital: Leasing allows you to maintain working capital and to use these funds in a more profitable manner. You can, therefore, take advantage of the latest technology, without putting the company in a negative cash position.
Preserve your line of credit: Leasing allows you to preserve your line of credit with the bank. You can, therefore, benefit from a higher credit ceiling than you would realise solely at your bank.
Simplified budgetary controls: When the cost of equipment is known and fixed in advance, the budgets of various departments can easily be forecasted, as can the profitability of various marketing plans, allowing your company to make more informed and accurate decisions.
Simplified bookkeeping: The monthly payments of a lease can be distributed easily to the respective department. You need not prepare complex depreciation schedules for your equipment.
Fiscal advantages: Lease payments are entered in your accounting records as a monthly operating expense (rather than a capital purchase, which becomes a capital asset in your financial statement). The monthly lease payment, therefore, becomes a 100% deductible, monthly operating expense. The tax advantages are taken monthly rather than at year-end.
Commercial value: Would you pay an employee one-year in advance? This is what you do when you pay up-front for your equipment. Leasing allows you to pay for your equipment as you use and obtain revenue from it. As your payments remain fixed over the term of your lease, your dollar is protected against inflationary pressures and your financing becomes insensitive to fluctuations in interest rates.
What could you ask for more?: Purchasing new equipment, without affecting your borrowing power, without investing and by taking advantage of existing tax laws.
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