The classifications of a lease by the lessee are operating and finance leases. operating, sales, and finance leases. operating and leveraged leases. None of these answers are correct. Alt Corporation enters into an agreement with Yates Rentals Co. on January 1, 2018 for the purpose of leasing a machine to be used in its manufacturing operations. The following data pertain to the agreement: (a) The term of the noncancelable lease is 3 years with no renewal option. Payments of $574,864 are due on January 1 of each year. (b) The fair value of the machine on January 1, 2018, is $1,600,000. The machine has a remaining economic life of 10 years, with no salvage value. The machine reverts to the lessor upon the termination of the lease. (c) Alt depreciates all machinery it owns on a straight-line basis. (d) Alt’s incremental borrowing rate is 10% per year. Alt does not have knowledge of the 8% implicit rate used by Yates. (e) Immediately after signing the lease, Yates finds out that Alt Corp. is the defendant in a suit which is sufficiently material to make collectibility of future lease payments doubtful. From the viewpoint of Yates, what type of lease agreement exists? Operating lease Finance lease Sales-type lease Direct-financing lease The Lease Liability account should be disclosed as a current liability. a noncurrent liability. current portions in current liabilities and the remainder in noncurrent liabilities. deferred credits. Metro Company, a dealer in machinery and equipment, leased equipment to Sands, Inc., on July 1, 2018. The lease is appropriately accounted for as a sales-type lease by Metro and as a finance lease by Sands. The lease is for a 10-year period (the useful life of the asset) expiring June 30, 2028. The first of 10 equal annual payments of $828,000 was made on July 1, 2018. Metro had purchased the equipment for $5,250,000 on January 1, 2018, and established a list selling price of $7,200,000 on the equipment. Assume that the present value at July 1, 2018, of the rent payments over the lease term discounted at 8% (the appropriate interest rate) was $6,000,000. Assuming that Sands, Inc. uses straight-line depreciation, what is the amount of depreciation and interest expense that Sands should record for the year ended December 31, 2018? $300,000 and $206,880 $300,000 and $240,000 $3,600,000 and $206,880 $3,600,000 and $160,000 When a company decides to switch from the double-declining balance method to the straight-line method, this change should be handled as a change in accounting principle. change in accounting estimate. prior period adjustment. correction of an error.