Course Description
Course publication/revision date: This course was updated on 1/19/2026.
The purpose of this course is to review the changes made to lease accounting by ASU 2016-02, Leases, (as further amended by ASU 2018-01, Land Easement- Practical Expedient for Transition to Topic 842), and numerous other amendments, and to establish the principles that lessees and lessors shall apply to report useful information to users of financial statements about the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from a lease. Topics include a review of the new rules for lessees and lessors, the types of leases, how to account for the balance sheet, income statement and cash flows statement impacts of different types of leases, the implementation requirements, and more.
This course also addresses newly issued ASU 2023-01, Leases (Topic 842)- Common Control Arrangements, addressing the application of the lease standard to common control arrangements.
