A working relationship between a leasing company and a supplier (vendor) to provide financing in order to stimulate the vendor's sales. The leasing company offers lease contracts to the vendor [..]

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The lessor is the party to a leasing contract which owns the equipment and entitles the lessee to use it for a specified period of time, in exchange for specified lease payments.

The lessee (borrower/client) is the party to the contract which receives the right to use temporarily the leased asset against the payment of lease installments

A number of periodic payments for a specified period of time paid by the lessee to the lessor.

Financial leasing is mid or long-term financing. This is a contract where the lessor transfers most of the risks and rewards associated with the ownership of the asset to the lessee. Although the less [..]

Unlike financial lease, operational lease is short-term lease and it normally does not cover the full economic life of the leased asset. The lessor bears all risks and rewards, connected with the owne [..]

The transaction where a company sells an asset which it currently owns, to a lessor and it enters simultaneously into a leasing agreement with the same lessor as a lessee of the same asset. Lessee’s o [..]

Leasing is sometimes done not directly, but through an intermediary. In a subleasing scheme a basic lessor (e.g. a leasing company) leases assets to an intermediary (e.g. a rent-a-car company), which [..]

Assets which are suitable for leasing usually meet the following characteristics: long useful life, identifiable, marketable, movable, and useful to many users.