Capitalizing Leases - Webcast
Accountants routinely miscategorize leases and treat them as operating expenses (instead of financial expenses). In this webcast, I look at the process of capitalizing leases and how it affects earnings, debt and invested capital. I use Disney's annual report from 2012 to illustrate the process.
Note: this model is being shared with the authorization of Professor Aswath Damodaran from NYU Stern Business School (www.damodaran.com)
Note: this model is being shared with the authorization of Professor Aswath Damodaran from NYU Stern Business School (www.damodaran.com)