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Lease Financing and Equipment Financing in Canada - Your reasons to consider

Guest post by: Stan Prokop

Article Overview: The article explores some of the key concepts around business equipment financing in Canada with a perspective on why Canadian business owners choose this financing alternative , or at least consider it as an option in Canadian asset financing .

Lease Financing and Equipment Financing in Canada - Your reasons to consider

Most Canadian business owners and financial managers understand the basics of leasing and equipment financing, as the industry had flourished and grown for decades. The basic premise is simple, your Canadian firm wants to use an asset, but not necessarily own it, and, more importantly, you don't want to pay for it all up front and receive the economic benefits of that asset over a number of years. Lease transactions can typically e three to five years, but some assets have much longer terms, and of course much longer useful economic life.

What can get confusing for some business owners is, on occasion, the various terms around the concept of leasing, you may have heard them many times before. They are terms such as financial lease, capital lease, full payout lease, operating lese, and finance lease. All of these terms refer to the general concept of leasing, and specifically to the types of leases then your firm can enter into. You clearly want to know what type of lease you are entering into!

Why does Canadian business choose to use lease financing as an alternative financing vehicle. We will discuss four of them -

The need to finance

Flexibility and convenience

Risk (asset)

Accounting and tax reasons

So let's recap a bit about those issues. When we say ' need to finance' your Canadian company has a need for assets and capital expenditures, but you either do not have the cash to purchase those items, and probably if you did you would want that free cash to run your company from an operating perspective, i.e. buy inventory, etc.

With respect to convenience your firm may require the latest technology for, say, computers, or plant production equipment. You certainly don't intend to purchase an asset for a short time, take the depreciation hit, and then sell it. That would not make business sense.

We alluded to 'risk 'as a key concept in lease financing. By that we meant that there are risks associated with many asset types, think computers as an example. New computers and technology come out it seems almost every day - why would we pay full price for an asset that wont be producing to industry requirements in a year or so, and , furthermore, what would we do with that asset after its no long ' leading edge' technology . That is where lease financing in Canada makes perfect sense.

And don't forget when we said flexibility is a key concept in leasing. It's never a perfect world with perfect timing in business. Let's say, using our computer example, that your firm invested in computing technology, or telecom for example, and you structured a lease to use operating lease for 2 years. Now we come to the end of that 2 year term and what do we find. The asset seems to still be fairly leading edge, and we are receiving fairly good economic benefit. But our lease is up. What do we do? Here comes the flexibility - we call our lessor or trusted leasing advisor and negotiate a 6 or 12 month extension to our lease. Savvy business owners will also ask the lessor to reduce the monthly payment, as the lease company has generally recovered all its initial investment.

Canadian lease financing and equipment financing - is it your only business financing option - No. Should you consider it as one of your financing alternatives - most certainly!

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