International Corporate Reporting Lease Accounting : Impact On Decisions Of Users Of Financial Statements

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1,0, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, course: International Corporate Reporting, language: English, abstract: This paper has the objective to analyse the relationship of the current and the proposed model of lease accounting and the decision-making process of readers of financial statements who can be managers, investors, financial auditors but also a big range of stakeholders. Initially, the impact of lease accounting and its' issues on financial statements will be examined. In the second part the changes, evolved from boards' proposal, to firms' balance sheets will be analysed in terms of their influence on the financial statement user's decision and the impact on businesses. According to the known weighty numbers of leases in Europe and the U.S. a change to a lease standard could have enormous outcome.