This course will guide you safely through the maze of leasing options, techniques, and regulations. It provides a historical perspective on leasing; familiarizes you with accounting, IRS, and industry viewpoints; gives you a complete set of quantitative tools for analyzing lease arrangements; and, finally, shows you how to account for and report leases.

Learn how to:

• Match leasing decisions with effective tax planning
• Negotiate the most beneficial lease for your company
• Use gross pretax yield, capital-budgeting yield, accounting yield, payback and net-present-value techniques of analysis

Course Objective:

Understand accounting, industry, and IRS viewpoints of leasing strategies. Identify tools to analyze the options. Understand the various regulations that affect leasing arrangements.

About This Course:

As one course among many offered in our curriculum, How to Make the Right Leasing Decisions has been designed specifically for the practicing manager and the future manager. It provides private, self-paced, individualized study; learning and self-evaluation through instructional programming; and communication between the student and our staff of instructors through assignments and a final examination based on the case study as pioneered by Harvard University. Paralleling a business school course of study, our curriculum makes available a stable, inclusive, and continuing transmittal of practices and perspectives to those working managers who, on their own time and at their own pace, want to continue their education.

Richard W. Lott is a training consultant in both the financial and dataprocessing fields. He does extensive course preparation and training for various agencies of the federal government. Mr. Lott serves as the financial consultant to the Course Service Division of the American Management Association. He also works with a large federal audit agency, assisting in the development of computerized auditing systems.

Mr. Lott has taught at Bentley College and the General Motors Institute and has worked for the Mine Safety Appliance Company, The Gallery Chemical, and the Pittsburgh National Bank. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

His financial and computing publications include 18 textbooks and selfstudy courses including Return on Investment, Personal Financial Planning, and Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers for AMA.

The publisher wishes to thank David T. Filipek, C.P.A., an instructor of accounting at Rhode Island College, for his help in reviewing the manuscript of this course.

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