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Statement No. 29
Determining Contingent Rentals-an amendment of FASB Statement No. 13



STATUS

Issue Date: June 1979

Effective Date: For leasing transactions and revisions recorded as of October 1, 1979

Affects: Amends FAS 13, paragraphs 5, 5(j)(i), 12, 16(a)(iv), 17(b), and 18(b)
Supersedes FAS 13, footnote 13

Affected by: Paragraph 13 amended by FAS 98

Other Interpretive Pronouncements: FTB 79-18
FTB 85-3

Issues Discussed by FASB Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF)

Affects: No EITF Issues

Interpreted by: Paragraphs 10 and 11 interpreted by EITF Issue No. 86-33

Related Issues: No EITF Issues

Abbreviations for Accounting Pronouncements
FAS - FASB Statements
FIN - FASB Interpretations
FTB - FASB Technical Bulletins
APB - APB Opinions
AIN - AICPA Interpretations
ARB - Accounting Research Bulletins
APB - APB Opinions
AIN - AICPA Interpretations
ARB - Accounting Research Bulletins
CON - FASB Concepts
EITF - EITF Issues
Q&A - FASB Implementation Guides




SUMMARY
The Board has been asked to reconsider the definition of contingent rentals in FASB Statement No. 13, Accounting for Leases, because differing views about the meaning of that definition result in similar leases being accounted for differently, for example, as a capital lease by one lessee and as an operating lease by another lessee. This Statement defines contingent rentals as the increases or decreases in lease payments that result from changes occurring subsequent to the inception of the lease in the factors on which lease payments are based. Lease payments that depend on a factor that exists and is measurable at the inception of the lease, such as the prime interest rate, would be included in minimum lease payments based on the factor at the inception of the lease. Lease payments that depend on a factor that does not exist or is not measurable at the inception of the lease, such as future sales volume, would be contingent rentals in their entirety and, accordingly, would be excluded from minimum lease payments and included in the determination of income as they accrue.


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