Cost of lease financing

Similar financial terms

Agency costs
The cost of resolving the agency problem. These might include stock options and bonus schemes to managers.

Transactions costs
The transactions costs are the expenses to the execution of a trade. It includes the commissions plus the difference between the price obtained and the midpoint of the bid-offer spread.

Storage costs
The cost of storing commodity.

Cost of sales
The costs associated with generating reported sales, including merchandise, direct labor, and other costs attributed to current sales activity.

Direct costs
Costs related directly to sales.

Dollar cost averaging
A system of investing in which an unchanging dollar amount is invested at regular intervals, regardless of share price.

Accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS)
Schedule of depreciation rates allowed for tax purposes.

Agency cost view
The argument that specifies that the various agency costs create a complex environment in which total agency costs are at a minimum with some, but less than 100%, debt financing.

All-in cost
Total costs, explicit and implicit.

Weighted average cost of capital
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the expected return on a portfolio of all the firm's securities when debt, equity and tax shields are taken into account. Used as a hurdle rate for capital investment.

Variable cost
A cost that is directly proportional to the volume of output produced. When production is zero, the variable cost is equal to zero. A variable is a cost of producing the product which a company sells. It would include such items as materials and labor that go directly into producing the shipped item. Another term for this is direct cost. These costs are usually shown directly under revenues on an income statement as the first costs associated with producing the revenues that are recorded.

True interest cost
For a security such as commercial paper that is sold on a discount basis, the coupon rate required to provide an identical return assuming a coupon-bearing instrument of like maturity that pays interest in arrears.

Trading costs
Costs of buying and selling marketable securities and borrowing. Trading costs include commissions, slippage, and the bid/ask spread. See: transaction costs.

Sunk costs
Costs that have been incurred and cannot be reversed.

Shortage cost
Costs that fall with increases in the level of investment in current assets.

Search costs
Costs associated with locating a counterparty to a trade, including explicit costs (such as advertising) and implicit costs (such as the value of time).

Round-trip transactions costs
Costs of completing a transaction, including commissions, market impact costs, and taxes.

Replacement cost
Cost to replace a firm's assets.

Opportunity costs
The difference in the performance of an actual investment and a desired investment adjusted for fixed costs and execution costs. The performance differential is a consequence of not being able to implement all desired trades. Most valuable alternative that is given up.

Opportunity cost of capital
Expected return that is foregone by investing in a project rather than in comparable financial securities.

Net financing cost
Also called the cost of carry or, simply, carry, the difference between the cost of financing the purchase of an asset and the asset's cash yield. Positive carry means that the yield earned is greater than the financing cost; negative carry means that the financing cost exceeds the yield earned.

Market timing costs
Costs that arise from price movement of the stock during the time of the transaction which is attributed to other activity in the stock.

Market impact costs
Also called price impact costs, the result of a bid/ask spread and a dealer's price concession.

Bankruptcy cost view
The argument that expected indirect and direct bankruptcy costs offset the other benefits from leverage so that the optimal amount of leverage is less than 100% debt finaning.

Carring costs
Costs that increase with increases in the level of investment in current assets.

Cost company arrangement
Arrangement whereby the shareholders of a project receive output free of charge but agree to pay all operating and financing charges of the project.

Cost of capital
The required return for a capital budgeting project.

Cost of funds
Interest rate associated with borrowing money.

Cost of limited partner capital
The discount rate that equates the after-tax inflows with outflows for capital raised from limited partners.

Cost-benefit ratio
The net present value of an investment divided by the investment's initial cost. Also called the profitability index.

Avoided cost
In context of project financing, the capital and expense that would have to be spent if the project did not proceed.

Replacement cost
What it would cost today to replace a company’s existing assets.

Fixed costs
Production expenses that are independent of the level of output. Fixed costs could include debt repayments, security costs and marketing and administration costs.

Zero Cost Collar
Is a transaction which has little or zero cash outlay or cost for the initiating person. Often, a security is held and some protection is sought via a hedging transaction. One example, would be the purchase of an out-of-the-money put (debit) and the sale of an out-of-the-money call (credit). Here, the premiums for the debit and credit are nearly the same. Therefore, there would be little or no cost for the person seeking the hedge. However, this position places a cap on the potential reward for ...

True lease
A contract that qualifies as a valid lease agreement under the Internal Revenue code.

Sales-type lease
An arrangement whereby a firm leases its own equipment, such as Acer leasing its own computers, thereby competing with an independent leasing company.

Sale and lease-back agreement
Sale of an existing asset to a financial institution that then leases it back to the user.

Safe harbor lease
A lease to transfer tax benefits of ownership (depreciation and debt tax shield) from the lessee, if the lessee could not use them, to a lessor that could use them.

Operating lease
Short-term, cancelable lease. A type of lease in which the period of contract is less than the life of the equipment and the lessor pays all maintenance and servicing costs.

Net lease
A lease arrangement under which the lessee is responsible for all property taxes, maintenance expenses, insurance, and other costs associated with keeping the asset in good working condition.

Limitation on sale-and-leaseback
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to enter into sale and lease-back transactions.

Leveraged lease
A lease arrangement under which the lessor borrows a large proportion of the funds needed to purchase the asset and grants the lender a lien on the assets and a pledge of the lease payments to secure the borrowing.

Lease Rate
The payment per period stated in a lease contract.

Lease
A long-term rental agreement, and a form of secured long-term debt.

Break-even lease payment
The lease payment at which a party to a prospective lease is indifferent between entering and not entering into the lease arrangement.

Capital lease
A lease obligation that has to be capitalized on the balance sheet.

Precious Metals Lease
A vehicle or technique used to finance precious metals inventories. It is related to the term structure of precious metals prices.

Threshold for refinancing
The point when the WAC of an MBS is at a level to induce homeowners to prepay the mortgage in order to refinance to a lower-rate mortgage, generally reached when the WAC of the MBS is 2% or more above currently available mortgage rates.

Project financing
A form of asset-based financing in which a firm finances a discrete set of assets on a standalone basis.

Production payment financing
A method of nonrecourse asset-based financing in which a specified percentage of revenue realized from the sale of the project's output is used to pay debt service.

Planned financing program
Program of short-term and long-term financing as outlined in the corporate financial plan.

Off-balance-sheet financing
Financing that is not shown as a liability in a company's balance sheet.

Multi-option financing facility
A syndicated confirmed credit line with attached options.

Back-to-back financing
An intercompany loan channeled through a bank.

Bridge financing
Interim financing of one sort or another used to solidify a position until more permanent financing is arranged.