IFRS Defintions
Lease incentives
Payments made by a lessor to a lessee associated with a lease, or the reimbursement or assumption by a lessor of costs of a lessee.
Lease modification
A change in the scope of a lease, or the consideration for a lease, that was not part of the original terms and conditions of the lease (for example, adding or terminating the right to use one or more underlying assets, or extending or shortening the contractual lease term).
Lease payments
Payments made by a lessee to a lessor relating to the right to use an underlying asset during the lease term, comprising the following:
(a) fixed payments (including in-substance fixed payments), less any lease incentives;
(b) variable lease payments that depend on an index or a rate;
(c) the exercise price of a purchase option if the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise that option; and
(d) payments of penalties for terminating the lease, if the lease term reflects the lessee exercising an option to terminate the lease.
For the lessee, lease payments also include amounts expected to be payable by the lessee under residual value guarantees. Lease payments do not include payments allocated to non-lease components of a contract, … Read more
Lease term
The non-cancellable period for which a lessee has the right to use an underlying asset, together with both:
- periods covered by an option to extend the lease if the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise that option; and
- periods covered by an option to terminate the lease if the lessee is reasonably certain not to exercise that option.
Legal obligation
A legal obligation is an obligation that derives from:
- a contract (through its explicit or implicit terms);
- legislation; or
- other operation of law.
Lessee’s incremental borrowing rate
The rate of interest that a lessee would have to pay to borrow over 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.
Level 1 inputs
Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the entity can access at the measurement date.
Level 2 inputs
Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.