The Complete Equipment-Leasing Handbook


Book Description

"Equipment leasing is one of the most complex aspects of business finance in existence, involving sophisticated concepts often understood only by experts. Consequently, business executives and purchasing professionals often fail to maximize their leverage in signing leases, or opt instead to purchase equipment outright at staggering costs. Combining the author's Handbook of Equipment Leasing with the tools from his Complete Book of Equipment Leasing Agreements, Forms, Worksheets, and Checklists, this comprehensive volume provides the legal, financial, and business background essential for evaluating, negotiating, and documenting successful equipment lease transactions. This invaluable resource for lessors and lessees answers questions like: * How does the leasing marketplace really work? * What is the best way for a company to solicit lease bids? * What economic and tax risks does a lessor face? * When is leasing a poor choice? The book also addresses crucial issues like profit strategies, forming and running a leasing company, and the leasing of equipment in the growing international market."




Equipment Leasing


Book Description

Equipment Leasing is a practical reference for financial managers who need background information, and an understanding of how leasing can be utilized as a cost-effective means of equipment financing-especially under the new tax law in the United States. It explores various types of leases, including single investor leases, leveraged leases, tax requirements for true leases' and lease-buy economic analysis. This invaluable resource includes the background and basics of equipment leasing, history of leasing, synthetic leases, financial reporting of lease transactions by lessees, operating a leasing company, and much more.




Handbook of Equipment Leasing


Book Description

Newly revised, this classic reference covers virtually every type of lease deal or business leasing transaction, as well as every aspect of the business of leasing, both domestically and internationally. It is packed with up-to-date financial, tax, accounting, contract, document, and deal-making information.




Equipment Leasing and Financing


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This book explains how companies that sell equipment and other products can increase product sales and add an additional profit center by establishing their own innovative leasing and financing operation. Industry data shows that the need for equipment and other product financing has evolved over the past few decades to where now nine out of ten U.S. companies use leasing or other forms of third party financing to acquire the equipment or other products they need. For market-aggressive companies offering products for sale, having an available in-house customer product leasing and financing program as a product marketing strategy can dramatically increase their ability to close product sales. In the past, establishing an in-house financing activity was difficult and expensive, requiring unique and substantial additional business operational and financing components in addition to an extensive learning curve. This is no longer the case. In recent years, there have been wide-spread market advances surrounding the financing of equipment and other products that enable forward-thinking companies to cost-effectively establish their own in-house product financing activity, using readily available, state-of the-art financing software programs, and third-party back-office services to manage any part of the financing process. This book will provide a product vendor with the turnkey know how it needs to assess the viability of establishing an in-house equipment financing operation, as well as the various considerations needed to set up and run its own cost-effective and profitable product financing activity.




Asset-Based Lending


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This new, third edition, has added many updates regarding critical asset-based collateral subjects and issues, including regulatory Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) changes and more. Asset-based lending, or the extension of credit against company's balance sheet assets on a collateral margin basis, is a rapidly growing field in the lending arena - thanks to better controls and understanding as well as the intensification of non-bank competition in the field. Asset-Based Lending defines lending controls and policies, assessing collateral and borrower quality, loan pricing, collateral monitoring and much more, including: - Cash collateral accounts, commingling funds and controlling payments and advances - Completing notes, security agreements and other documents - Accounts receivable and inventory lending - Chattel paper, notes, machinery and equipment - Direct and third party leasing - Collateral field examinations - Factoring




Managing Lease Portfolios


Book Description

Leasing is one of today's more complex forms of financing, and, unless you have extensive experience in this arena, making informed decisions can be difficult. Over the life of a lease, its risks and returns change, and the factors that affect the risks and returns also change. In Managing Lease Portfolios, Townsend Walker, an expert in this field, explains how to evaluate the risk of lease portfolios as well as hedge their long-term, non-traded risks. Here, you’ll learn how to apply various financial tools to your portfolio of leases and discover the work that goes into each step—such as measuring the risks of a lease, calculating the returns, and estimating the effects of diversification. Many of the ideas and concepts found within this comprehensive resource have existed for a number of years in the fields of foreign exchange, interest rate and credit derivatives, and the bond and stock markets. This book adapts and applies these concepts to managing leases. Then it illustrates how you can implement these new concepts through concrete models that have been proven to work in the real world.




Speed to Market


Book Description

Lean manufacturing is the single most effective way to increase sales, cut costs, improve margins, and secure the future of a business. The problem is that the principles and philosophies of lean manufacturing are geared strictly to mass production operations and can be ineffective, even detrimental, for smaller job shops and make-to-order businesses. Now, Speed to Market delivers a proven approach for smaller suppliers who want to successfully cut their lead time and trigger profitable growth. Completely updated and expanded, the book explains how to: * Apply the principles of pull, flow, and the elimination of waste to every area of the company, at every stage from quotes to cash* Implement a continuous improvement process while sidestepping the typical implementation pitfalls* Ease scheduling problems* Improve performance and profitability using the book's practical concepts, process analysis tools, and perspective-enhancing techniques and much more




The Complete Equipment-Leasing Handbook


Book Description

Volume II, containing forms, checklists and worksheets.From agriculture to manufacturing, from finance to information technology, equipment leasing involves sophisticated concepts often understood only by experts. The Complete Equipment-Leasing Handbook, A Deal Maker's Guide, Second Edition, a two volume set with each volume purchased separately, both combines and extensively updates the author's The Complete Equipment Leasing Handbook, A Deal Maker's Guide with Forms, Checklists, and Worksheets to present both a thorough overview of the entire process (from the lessor's, the lender's and the lessee's perspectives) and all the tools necessary for successful transactions, whether you're on the lessor's, the lender's or the lessee's side. Volume I updates the text material found in the First Edition and is filled with checklists, explanations, and examples offering guidance, for example, for questions such as: * How does the leasing marketplace really work? * What is the best document for a particular situation? * When is leasing a poor choice? * What is the best way for a company to solicit lease bids? * What should a properly written lease cover? * What tax and economic risks does a lessor have? * How should a lease be analyzed financially? * What are Uniform Commercial Code rules for leasing and secured lending? * What are the newest financing trends in leasing? Volume II, which updates the forms, checklists and worksheets originally contained in the First Edition, contains 115 agreements and ready-to-use forms. The Complete Equipment-Leasing Handbook, Second Edition, Volume I, explains the business of leasing both domestically and internationally and takes you step-by-step through the entire process of conducting a leasing transaction, with information on special considerations such as leveraged leasing as well as crucial tax and accounting issues. Volume II provides forms, checklists and worksheets for ready reference. Both volumes together provide an invaluable resource for anyone needing to be informed of the legal, financial, and business strategies of leasing equipment and the tools necessary to get the leasing deals done.




Leasing NYC


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New York City is an iconic metropolis that exudes modern energy and storied classicism. The most recognizable names in business call the city home. Every day,thousands of businesses evolve, rise, and compete in a global market, and they need office space that matches their ambitions. When a firm is ready to put its mark on New York City, that’s when Leasing NYC is a must-read. Leasing space in NYC and doing it right is a process filled with million-dollar decisions and logistics. With thirty years of experience working with tenants, Gregg Lorberbaum has seen it all. Now he presents his vast knowledge of the leasing process to the public. His team approach to finding and building out office space takes the emphasis off simply signing a lease, and orients you to the complex machinations that require strong coordination to ensure a successful move. YOUR OFFICE LEASE IS EXPIRING IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING. MOVING WILL BE VERY COSTLY, BUT YOUR CURRENT SPACE ISN’T QUITE WORKING. THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE IN THE COMING MONTHS WILL HAVE A LASTING IMPACT ON YOUR IMAGE, YOUR EMPLOYEES, YOUR EFFICIENCY, YOUR GROWTH PROSPECTS, AND YOUR BOTTOM LINE. NOW WHAT? LEASING NYC IS THE PERFECT HANDBOOK TO HAVE BY YOUR SIDE. PART COMPASS, PART TRAIL GUIDE, IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY TO THE RIGHT SPACE FOR YOUR COMPANY. Inside, you will gain insight into: • Bargaining with your current landlord and avoiding the “captive tenant” trap • Negotiating the best deal for constructing and furnishing office space without making typical costly mistakes • Hiring the right broker and other project team members • Designing space that fosters collaboration and a positive work culture • Establishing realistic project budgets and schedules and meeting them • Understanding your all-in cost of occupancy versus your price per square foot Leasing NYC also includes several case studies from Lorberbaum’s most successful projects and gives you easy-to-use formulas to define objectives and make smart decisions. Beautifully photographed by prominent photographer Adrian Wilson, the book is an intelligent and helpful companion to accompany you on your journey to find the ideal space for your business.




The Complete CFO Handbook


Book Description

This must-have reference covers all of the major areas of cost accounting and analysis including product costing, relevant costs, cost-volume analysis, performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting. Includes methods of reorganizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating, and reporting actual costs and comparing them with standard costs. Equips experienced cost accountants with a reference tool and students with a thorough textbook. Provides numerous examples, succinct language, chapter review, glossary, and appendices. Includes an abundance of exercises, many of which are based on exam questions from the CPA and CMA exams.