Question - Laura Leasing Company signs an agreement on January 1, 2017, to lease equipment to Flounder Company. The following information relates to this agreement.
1. The term of the noncancelable lease is 5 years with no renewal option. The equipment has an estimated economic life of 5 years.
2. The fair value of the asset at January 1, 2017, is $73,300.
3. The asset will revert to the lessor at the end of the lease term, at which time the asset is expected to have a residual value of $6,400, none of which is guaranteed.
4. Flounder Company assumes direct responsibility for all executory costs, which include the following annual amounts: (1) $810 to Rocky Mountain Insurance Company for insurance and (2) $1,490 to Laclede County for property taxes.
5. The agreement requires equal annual rental payments of $16,307.79 to the lessor, beginning on January 1, 2017.
6. The lessee's incremental borrowing rate is 12%. The lessor's implicit rate is 9% and is known to the lessee.
7. Flounder Company uses the straight-line depreciation method for all equipment.
8. Flounder uses reversing entries when appropriate.
Required - Prepare an amortization schedule that would be suitable for the lessee for the lease term.