New Accounting Standards Will Affect Lease Accounting

Monday, 14. March 2011

Last week I reported on the shambles known as the EU Consumer Credit Directive that would, without doubt, cause widespread confusion amongst consumers and small businesses (who were included in the Consumer Credit Act but not in the CCD). Trying to get the message across to customers in dealerships would result in the blind leading the blind Read more »

New Accounting Standards Unlikely To Affect Car Leasing Industry

Friday, 10. September 2010

There are new accounting rules being worked on by the International Accountancy Standards Board in order to standardise the way that leases are accounted for. Years ago we made a big issue about the fact that contract hire type leases were ‘off balance sheet’ and simply recorded as a revenue expense. This was quite important for large corporates but for smaller companies it didn’t actually carry a lot of Read more »