Equipment Leasing Leveraged Leasing

Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing shows you how to determine whether it's better for your client to lease or buy; comply with intricate laws governing leasing deals; structure and draft agreements of any kind or size; achieve specific goals for your clients, whether they're lessors, lessees or lenders; handle effectively problems specific to certain kinds of leasing; and minimize legal and financial risks, including warranty, environmental, and tort liability, bankruptcy risks, and the risks associated with originating leases and loans through the Internet.

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.

This book is a guidebook for any business, small to large, considering acquiring equipment through a leasing alternative. It explains the pros and cons of leasing equipment, as well as how leasing and financing companies operate and the pitfalls to watch out for, provides guidance on how to financially evaluate lease offers and compare them to other financing alternatives. It also discusses the various business, accounting, and tax implications. Included are practical tips, recommendations and strategies for getting the best lease deal, a legal and business explanation of all relevant documents, and strategies to negotiate the relevant documents to get the best terms. Very simply, this book is a comprehensive guidebook tailored expressly for the business lessee--with up-to-date suggestions, insider tips and observations. So, if you're thinking about leasing equipment and want to know how to negotiate the best possible lease deal, this book is for you.

"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."

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.