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The entry screen comprises a header displaying the identification information of the contract and one to six tabs, depending on the level of detail required and the entry screens set up in the Business object transactions function:
Certain contract information can be entered or modified only through actions that can be carried out on the contract. These actions, grouped in the Actions sub-menu, are the following:
- Record the end of contract
- Lift purchase option
- Terminate contract
- Update the contract
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The header contains the identification information of the contract: the company and the financial site to which it is allocated, its reference, its description, its status as well as the contract type.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Block number 1
| This field displays the company for the financial site. |
| Enter the financial site in which the contract is recorded. The choice of the financial site is subject to management and authorization rules given to the user. If the user is limited to a single site, the financial site is automatically loaded and cannot be modified. |
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Block number 2
| The reference, composed of 20 alphanumerical characters max., is used to identify a financial leasing contract for a given company.
The reference assigned to the asset is the function of the setup of the sequence number counter assigned to the Contract reference field in Sequence number counter Structure and Sequence number counter assignment functions. |
| This field contains the main description of the contract. |
| This field contains the additional description of the financial leasing contract. |
| When creating the contract, the status is To validate. The assets can be attached to it but it must not be the object of any action. In addition, there is no information on the Open item schedules tab; this information is optional.
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| Select the contract type: Lease, Rent, or Long term rent. |
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Click the Events icon to display the event log for the contract. When you perform certain actions for any contract type, data is recorded in the event log. The values in the event log are initialized from information in the contract.
Events include
The list can be limited to the events matching the selection criteria. These criteria correspond to the displayed information: the depreciation plan (if required), the user originating the event, the creation date and time, the effective and posting dates, as well as an indicator specifying if the event has already been posted or not.
Special features:
From the Action icon menu on a line, select Detail to view the event content, detailed over several tabs:
- The Generaltab displays the information linked to the creation, modification, and posting of an event. Select Details from the Action icon on the journal number to view the Accounting entry created to post the event.
- The Alphanumeric tab displays account information for the contract such as account code and analytical dimensions.
- The Numeric tab includes values from the contract related to the event. These values update when the contract is updated through a new event.
Amounts managed on this tab include, but are not limited to:
How info displays for Split by month and Periods on several months
When you generate fees for a contract or contracts, you see the events listed in the grid on the Event journal screen.
Split by month
When the contract period is a full month or within a single month, one event or line per month is generated. When you view the details for the event (Action icon menu), on the Numeric tab, you see the full amounts for each field.
For example
First period: 1 Jan 2017 to 31 Jan 2017
Second period: 1 Feb 2017 to 28 Feb 2017
Third period: 1 Mar 2017 to 31 Mar 2017
This generates 3 events, one event for each month. The details on the Numeric tab show the full amounts for each month.
Periods split over several months
When a contract period spans more than one month, events and amounts are calculated differently and depend on the number of days in each period.
For example:
First period: 1 Jan 2017 to 20 Jan 2017 (20 days in the period)
Second period: 21 Jan 2017 to 20 Feb 2017 (31 days in the period)
This generates 3 total events.
First period:
One event for the first period because the 20 days are within the same month.
No calculation based on the number of days.
Second period:
The second period generates 2 events, one for each month within the period. The values for each of these periods/events is calculated as follows:
1st event for the 11 days 21 Jan to 31 Jan. The 11 days are divided by the 31 days in the first month, January.
2nd event for the 20 days (1 Feb to 20 Feb). The 20 days are divided by the 31 days in the period (21 Jan to 20 Feb).
-The Local menu tab displays basic information related to the contract.
-The Datetab displays dates related to the contract.
- The Archived plan tab is only loaded for the Revaluation, the Change in method, or the Change in production plan events and only if the asset belongs to a company subjected to French legislation. In this case, an icon is displayed along with the depreciation plan to specify that the plan has been archived.
The tab displays the depreciation plan (or the production plan) of the asset as it was before the action that has generated the event (revaluation, change in method or change in the production plan). This information is included in an archiving table (DEPRECARC) which primary key is composed of the event identification information: type of event, Change in method, Revaluation, or Change in production plan, and Event time stamp.
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This tab is used to enter all the contract characteristics.
As long as the contract status is To be validated, all the information can be modified (with the exception of Contract type if at least one asset has been attached to the contract).
If its status is In process, only the following fields on this tab can be updated:
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Characteristics
| This is mandatory information. It is the organization which entered into the lease contract. The lessor must be identified as the Supplier in the BP accounting table. |
| This field is used to enter the balance sheet line involved in the financial lease contract. This information is notably used for editing the summary reports to attach to the annual accounting reports. These tables (referenced as LEALIALeasing commitments and LEARNTDPRLeasingCharges and depreciations) indicate the global situation of the lease contracts, grouped and ordered by balance sheet lines. It is mandatory that the balance sheet line be entered for the contract values to be taken into account in these tables. |
| This field is used to specify the origin of the contract. It can be either a new contract or a transferred contract. |
| This field is used to specify the nature (Fixed assets or Movable assets) of the lease contract. |
| The Start date for the contract is mandatory. It can only be modified whilst the contract has the status To be validated. This modification leads to the deletion of the financial payment schedule. When the contract is for company vehicles and the registration number is entered, it also leads to the update of the lease start date (Financial assets function, option Vehicle). |
| The end date for the contract is mandatory. It can be modified whilst the contract has the status To be validated. |
| The accounting code is mandatory. It is used to define the CoA and IAS/IFRS accounts to be posted when generating the accounting entries related to the rental contract. If the contract status is In process, it can be updated via the Update the contract action. |
Valuations
| This field is used to enter the contract financing currency. It remains editable as long as the contract status is: To validate. |
| It is mandatory that the borrowed capital amount should be entered if the contract type is Leasing. This amount must be entered in the contract financing currency. It is automatically converted and displayed: |
| This field is used to enter the buyback price of the asset(s), at the end of the leasing period during the removal of the purchase option planned for a lease contract. |
| This field displays the company management currency, as a reminder. |
| This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the company currency. |
| This non-editable field displays the buyback price, converted into the company currency. |
| This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the company currency. |
| This field displays the IFRS currency in the IAS depreciation plan for a company. |
| This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
| This non-editable field displays the buyback price, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
| This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
Additional information
| This field defines the interest rate applied to the borrowed capital for a lease contract. This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not impacted by Fixed Assets (GESFAS). This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not automatically impacted by the rate. This value in this field, along with the Implied interest rate and Incremental borrowing rate fields, also populate the Rate field on the Open item schedule tab in the Yearly present values grid according to the following conditions:
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| This field displays the implied interest rate applied to the borrowed capital for a lease contract. The Implied or Implicit interest rate is equal to the fair value of the underlying asset and any initial direct costs of the lessor. This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not impacted by Fixed Assets (GESFAS). This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not automatically impacted by the rate. This value in this field, along with the Incremental borrowing rate and Interest rate fields, also populate the Rate field on the Open item schedule tab in the Yearly present values grid according to the following conditions:
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| This field defines the incremental borrowing rate applied to the borrowed capital for a lease contract. The incremental borrowing rate is “the rate of interest that a lessee would have to pay to borrowover a similar term, and with a similar security, the funds necessary to obtain an asset of a similar value to the right-of-use asset in a similar economic environment.”* This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not impacted by Fixed Assets (GESFAS). This amount is display-only because the payment schedule is not automatically impacted by the rate. This value in this field, along with the Implied interest rate and Interest rate fields, also populate the Rate field on the Open item schedule tab in the Yearly present values grid according to the following conditions:
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| This field enables entering the amount of advance charges when signing a financial lease contract. |
| This field is used to enter the preliminary expenses for a lease contract. |
| The value in this field originates in the lease contract. The initial direct cost represents the “Incremental costs of obtaining a lease that would not have been incurred if the lease had not been obtained, except for such costs incurred by a manufacturer or dealer lessor in connection with a finance lease.”* *Source: IFRS Foundation |
| The value in this field originates in the lease contract. “It is an estimate of costs to be incurred by the lessee in dismantling and removing the underlying asset, restoring the site on which it is located or restoring the underlying asset to the condition required by the terms and conditions of the lease.”* *Source: IFRS Foundation |
| The contract revision date is not modifiable. It is filled in automatically at the end of the launch of the action Revise the contract. |
| This field is used to enter the date of the Purchase option removal planned for a Lease contract. This date can be updated on a contract In progress, either through the action Update the contract, or through the action Lift purchase option. |
| The contract termination date is not modifiable. It is filled in automatically at the end of the launch of the Terminate contract action. |
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This tab is used to enter the economic and analytical allocations of the asset.
Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Economic
Analytical
| This field is used in creation mode to enter an analytical distribution key, previously defined in the Analytical allocations function (GESDSP). Click the Jump-to icon in the field to access this function. Entering a distribution key disables the entry of analytical sections. |
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| An Analytical dimension is a part of the analytical general ledger accounts. It is divided into Analytical dimension types where each dimension type constitutes a particular breakdown of the company into a set of analytical payment attributes. The entry of analytical dimensions can be set to mandatory using the setup carried out at the level of the Company (Accounting tab). |
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This tab is used to enter the funding schedule associated with the lease contract.
The columns that display in the grid depend on the type of contract to define the open item schedule:
For all contract types:
For Lease contract types:
For Rent and Long-term rent contract types:
This schedule, expressed in the funding currency of the contract, is in the form of a grid containing (once entered) as many lines as there are open items.
After the you enter the start and end dates for the 1st open item, the following periods are automatically created:
Then you can:
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Open items
| This field displays the period start date which the due date deals with. The first period start date must be entered. The following period start dates are calculated by adding a day to the previous period end date. |
| This field displays the period end date which the due date is about. The end date of the first period must be entered. The end dates of the next periods are automatically defined as follows: |
| This field displays the amount of capital to repay at the beginning of the period concerned by a leasing contract payment. It is expressed in the contract currency. |
| This field contains the amount of the charge due for the rental of the assets referenced in the financial lease contract. It is expressed in the contract financing currency. |
| This field enables the user to enter the amount corresponding to the capital refund. This amount, expressed in the financing currency of the contract, must mandatorily be entered if it is a leasing contract. |
| For Lease contract types, this field displays the financial expenses in the contract currency for a given period, which is equal to the fee minus the financial amortization. You can modify this amount. For Rent contract types, this field represents the interest portion of the lease payment amount that is already stored in the Rental amount column for each period and month. The value in the Financial cost column is not included when calculating the current values and rights of use. This amount is not calculated from the contract characteristic; you need to enter or import it manually. |
| This amount is automatically calculated according to the following formula: Reimbursed capital for the previous period + Financial depreciation for the current period. It can be modified by the user. |
| This field displays a portion of payments for the right to use an asset during the contract term and after the start date. This applies to changes in circumstances other than the passage of time.* *Source IFRS Foundation |
| This field displays the value of an underlying asset should the lessee chose to purchase the asset and terminate the contract. This is a stand-alone price and does not include any payment of penalties for terminating the contract. It represents "the exercise price of a purchase option if the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise that option."* *Source: IFRS Foundation |
| This field displays the guaranteed value, or a portion of the value, of an underlying asset at the end of the lease. It is the amount expected to be paid by the lessee under the residual value guarantees. |
| This field displays the payment amount for penalties for terminating the lease if the lease term shows that the lessee opts to terminate the lease contract. |
| This field enables the user to enter the date of the invoice. |
| This field enables the user to enter the description of the invoice. |
| This tick box cannot be entered by the user. It is automatically activated when the annual fee events dealing with the open item and designed for the CoA accounting have been generated. |
| This check box is automatically checked when the annual fee events for the open item and designed for IFRS accounting have been generated. |
Totals
| This field displays the contract funding currency. |
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Grid Yearly present values
| This field displays the year, with one line for each year of the contract term. |
| This field displays the sequential year of the contract: 1 for the first year, 2 for the second year, etc. |
| This field displays the contract interest rate according to the following conditions: -If the three interest rate fields on the Main tab (Incremental borrowing rate, Interest rate, and Implied rate) all contain values, the Implied rate is used. -If the Implied rate is 0, then the Incremental borrowing rate is used, even if the Interest rate field has a value. -If the Interest rate field is the only one with a value, that rate is used. -If all three of these rate fields are empty, this rate is not updated. |
| This field displays the total amount for all open items for each contract year from the Open Item schedule grid. |
| This field displays the value based on the following formula: Present value formula = payment / (1+rate) open period
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Block number 4
| This field displays the contract funding currency. |
| When the contract status changes from To be validated to In process, the field displays the value in the Last present value field. This is amount is displayed in the funding currency and does not change. |
| This field displays the sum of the following fields: Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the funding currency. |
| This field is contains the sum of the Present value fields for all years of the contract in the funding currency. When the contract status becomes To process, this value is frozen in the Init. present value field and these two fields are used to estimate the Right-of-use of the rent contract associated with the future fixed assets. |
| This field is a sum of the Last present value + Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the funding currency. |
| This field displays the company currency. |
| When the contract status changes from To be validated to In process, the field displays the value in the Last present value field. This is amount is displayed in the company currency and does not change. |
| This field displays the sum of the following fields: Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the company currency. |
| This field contains the sum of the Present value fields for all years of the contract in the company currency. When the contract status becomes To process, this value is frozen in the Init. present value field and these two fields are used to estimate the Right-of-use of the rent contract associated to the future fixed assets. |
| This field is a sum of the Last present value + Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the company currency. |
| This field displays the IFRS currency in the IAS depreciation plan (GESCNX) for a company. |
| When the contract status changes from To be validated to In process, the field displays the value in the Last present value field. This is amount is displayed in the IFRS currency and does not change. |
| This field displays the sum of the following fields: Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the IFRS currency. |
| This field contains the sum of the Present value fields for all years of the contract in the IFRS currency. When the contract status changes to To process, this value is frozen in the Init. present value field and these two fields are used to estimate the Right-of-use of the rent contract associated with the future fixed assets. |
| This field is a sum of the Last present value + Advanced rent + Application fees + Initial direct cost + Restoration cost + Initial present value in the IFRS currency. |
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This function helps the entry by enabling the automatic carry forward of the amounts of Rental, Financial depreciation and Financial costs of the period from which the function is called, to the next periods.
This function helps the entry by enabling the blanking of all the periods present in the grid.
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This tab displays the list of the assets linked to the lease contract and lists, for each one: the reference, the description, the purchase date, and the tax-excl. receipt value expressed in funding currency, company currency and IAS/IFRS currency (if the IAS/IFRS plan is managed). This information cannot be modified.
The linking of an asset to a contract is carried out in the Allocations tab of theAssets management screen, by entering the lease contract reference for the asset.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
| This field, non modifiable, contains the reference of the financial asset linked to the financial lease contract. |
| This field cannot be modified and contains the description of the asset. |
| This field, that cannot be modified, contains the purchase date of the financial asset. |
| This field, that cannot be modified, displays the ex. tax IAS/IFRS entry value of the fixed asset, expressed in the financing currency. |
| This field, that cannot be modified, displays the ex-tax IAS/IFRS entry value of the financial asset, expressed in company currency. |
| This non-editabe field contains the IAS/IFRS receipt value ex-tax of the financial asset. |
Totals
| Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in financing currency. |
| This field displays the contract financing currency, as a reminder. |
| Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in company currency. |
| This field displays the company management currency, as a reminder. |
| Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in IAS/IFRS currency. |
| This field displays the IFRS currency in the IAS depreciation plan for a company. |
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This function is used to access, in inquiry mode, the asset management screen from which the function is called.
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This tab is loaded if one or several updates of the borrowed capital have been performed on the contract.
It contains a table displaying, on the first line, the initial amount of the contract at creation, expressed in funding currency, company currency and (if managed) IAS/IFRS context currency.
Each following line corresponds to an update of the capital and contains the variance of the capital.
The updated amount of the borrowed capital is displayed at the bottom of the screen in the Totals area.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Valuations
| In the 1st line, this field contains the contract start date, and in the following lines, the date when the revision of the borrowed capital has been done. |
| In the 1st line, this field contains the contract initial amount and in each following line, the variation amount of the borrowed capital. |
| This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the company currency. |
| This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the company currency. |
| This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
| This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This tab is for free fields. The number of free fields managed, their titles, the miscellaneous tables assigned to the control of the Code-type free fields and the currency for each Amount-type free field depend on the setup carried out at Free field properties level.
These free fields can be used depending on the management requirements, to store unplanned data in the Main tab.
This tab also displays information useful to contract tracking: origin of the creation (transaction entry, import, etc.), code of the user at the origin of the creation followed by the creation date, and finally the code of the user who carried out the last modification followed by the date of this modification.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Codes
Enter an alphanumeric value that can be linked to a miscellaneous table. |
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Amounts
| Enter an amount, expressed in a currency based on the Free field properties settings. |
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Coefficients
| Enter a value for the coefficient type. |
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Dates
| Enter a value for the date type. |
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Record tracking
| This field displays the origin of the record. |
| This field displays the user who created (entered) the record. |
| This field displays the creation (entry) date of the object. |
| This field displays the user that made the last modification on the recording. |
| This field displays the date of the last modification entered for the object. |
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You cannot delete a contract if:
Deleting a contract with the status Terminated or Completed releases the financial assets attached to it.
By default, the following reports are associated with this function :
FICHELEA : Leasing contract
LISLEA : List of rental contracts
This can be changed using a different setup.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window with the contract end date entered in the Main tab and which can be used to record the end of the contract. The contract end date may also be modified in this window.
Note: the contract end date must be less than or equal to the next fiscal year end date of the Accounting and fiscal context.
This action leads to:
This option in the Actions menu is available for Lease-type contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window with the Option exercise date and Scrap value entered in the Main tab.
These two values may be modified in this window, which is primarily used to record the purchase option exercise of the lease contract.
This action leads to:
Note: this action is irreversible; the purchase option exercise cannot be cancelled.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window which is used to terminate the lease contract.
This action leads to:
This action is irreversible; the termination of the contract cannot be cancelled.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window that is used to modify the following information of the contract:
- Contract end date.
For the Lease-type contract:
- Loaned capital variation: positive or negative correction to apply to the borrowed capital; this variation, specified in the funding currency, is automatically converted and displayed in company currency and management currency of the IAS/IFRS context (if it is managed).
- Scrap value (specified in the funding currency, and displayed in the company currency and management currency of the IAS/IFRS context if it is managed).
- Purchase option exercise date.
- Accounting code.
This action leads to:
The pre-update data are therefore archived and can be viewed using the LEAACTUContracts actualization specific report, which displays the different stages in the life of the contract.
When the update pertains to the amount of borrowed capital, the capital variations can be viewed in the Valuation tab.
When the update of the contract affects the contract end date, it also:
In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :
"You must unlink the assets from the contract before changing its type".
The holding type of the assets must be coherent with the contract type: the assets linked to a lease-type contract must necessarily have the holding type: Lease; those linked to a contract of the long term rent-type contract must necessarily have the holding type: Long term rent.