This function is used to manage the lease contracts, whether recorded by direct entry or from an import.
Lease contracts cover both lease-type contracts and long term rent-type contracts. Each contract may concern one or several assets that the company is renting.
This function can be used to create, modify, delete (under certain conditions) a contract and print the contract record.
It is also used to enter the funding open item schedule, update the contract characteristics, manage the purchase option exercises, record the terminations and end of contract, and view the assets for which the contract applies.
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The entry screen comprises a header displaying the identification information of the contract and one to six tabs, depending on the level of detail required and the entry screens set up in the Business object transactions function:
Certain contract information can be entered or modified only through actions that can be carried out on the contract. These actions, grouped in the Actions sub-menu, are the following:
- Record the end of contract
- Lift purchase option
- Terminate contract
- Update the contract.
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The header contains the identification information of the contract: the company and the financial site to which it is allocated, its reference, its description, its status as well as the contract type.
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The following fields are present on this tab :
Block number 1
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This field cannot be entered. It displays the company to which the financial site is attached. |
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This mandatory field is used to enter the financial site in which the contract is recorded. The choice of the financial site is submitted to management and authorization rules given to the user.
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The reference, composed of 20 alphanumerical characters max., is used to identify, in a unique way, a financial leasing contract for a given company.
The reference assigned to the asset is the function of the setup of the sequence number counter assigned to the Contract reference field in the Financing module. (Sequence number counter Structure and Sequence number counter assignment functions). |
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This field contains the main description of the contract. |
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This field contains the additional description of the financial leasing contract. |
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When creating the contract, its status automatically takes for value: To validate. The assets can be attached to it but it must not be the object of any action.
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This field is used to specify if the type of the contract is: Lease or Long term rental. |
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This tab is used to enter all the contract characteristics.
As long as the contract status is To be validated, all the information can be modified (with the exception of Contract type if at least one asset has been attached to the contract).
If its status is In process, only the following fields in the tab can be updated:
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Characteristics
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This is mandatory information. It is the organization which entered into the lease contract. The lessor must be identified as the Supplier in the BP accounting table. |
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This field is used to enter the balance sheet line involved in the financial lease contract. This information is notably used for editing the summary reports to attach to the annual accounting reports. These tables (referenced as LEALIA Leasing commitments and LEARNTDPR Leasing Charges and depreciations) indicate the global situation of the lease contracts, grouped and ordered by balance sheet lines. It is mandatory that the balance sheet line be entered for the contract values to be taken into account in these tables. |
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This field is used to specify the origin of the contract. It can be either a new contract or a transferred contract. |
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This field is use to specify the nature (Fixed assets or Movable assets) of the lease contract. |
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The Start date for the contract is mandatory. It can only be modified whilst the contract has the status To be validated. This modification leads to the deletion of the financial payment schedule. When the contract is for company vehicles and the registration number is entered, it also leads to the update of the lease start date (Financial assets function, option Vehicle). |
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The end date for the contract is mandatory. It can be modified whilst the contract has the status To be validated. |
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The accounting code is mandatory. It is used to define the CoA and IAS/IFRS accounts to be posted when generating the accounting entries related to the rental contract. If the contract status is In process, it can be updated via the Update the contract action. |
Currencies
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This field is used to enter the contract financing currency. It remains editable as long as the contract status is: To validate. |
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This field displays the company management currency, as a reminder. |
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This non-editable field displays the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
Valuations
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It is mandatory that the borrowed capital amount should be entered if the contract type is Leasing. This amount must be entered in the contract financing currency. It is automatically converted and displayed: |
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This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the company currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the company currency. |
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This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
Scrap value
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This field is used to enter the buyback price of the asset(s), at the end of the leasing period during the removal of the purchase option planned for a lease contract. |
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This non-editable field displays the buyback price, converted into the company currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the buyback price, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This field is used to define the interest rate applied to the borrowed capital in the case of a lease contract. This amount is purely indicative, as the payment schedule is not impacted by Sage X3 Fixed Assets. |
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This field enables entering the amount of advance charges when signing a financial lease contract. |
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This field is use to enter the preliminary expenses for a lease contract. |
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The contract revision date is not modifiable. It is filled in automatically at the end of the launch of the action Revise the contract. |
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This field is used to enter the date of the Purchase option removal planned for a Lease contract. This date can be updated on a contract In progess, either through the action Update the contract, or through the action Lift purchase option. |
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The contract termination date is not modifiable. It is filled in automatically at the end of the launch of the Terminate contract action. |
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This tab is used to enter the economic and analytical allocations of the asset.
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The following fields are present on this tab :
Economic
Analytical
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This field is used in creation mode to enter an analytical distribution key, previously defined at the level of the definition function of Analytical distribution keys, which can also be accessed by right-clicking on Distrib. |
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An Analytical dimension is a part of the analytical general ledger accounts. It is divided into Analytical dimension types where each dimension type constitutes a particular breakdown of the company into a set of analytical payment attributes. The entry of analytical dimensions can be set to mandatory using the setup carried out at the level of the Company (Accounting tab). |
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This tab is used to enter the funding schedule associated with the lease contract.
This schedule, expressed in the funding currency of the contract, is in the form of a grid containing (once entered) as many lines as there are open items.
After the user enters the start and end dates for the 1st open item, the following periods are automatically created:
The user can then:
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Open item schedule
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This field displays the period start date which the due date deals with. The first period start date must be entered. The following period start dates are calculated by adding a day to the previous period end date. |
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This field displays the period end date which the due date is about. The end date of the first period must be entered. The end dates of the next periods are automatically defined as follows: |
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This field displays the amount of capital to repay at the beginning of the period concerned by a leasing contract payment. It is expressed in the contract currency. |
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This field contains the amount of the charge due for the rental of the assets referenced in the financial lease contract. It is expressed in the contract financing currency. |
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This field enables the user to enter the amount corresponding to the capital refund. This amount, expressed in the financing currency of the contract, must mandatorily be entered if it is a leasing contract. |
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For Lease contract types, this field displays the financial expenses in the contract currency for a given period, which is equal to the fee minus the financial amortization. You can modify this amount. For Rent contract types, this field represents the interest portion of the lease payment amount that is already stored in the Rental amount column for each period and month. The value in the Financial cost column is not included when calculating the current values and rights of use. This amount is not calculated from the contract characteristic; you need to enter or import it manually. |
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This amount is automatically calculated according to the following formula: Reimbursed capital for the previous period + Financial depreciation for the current period. It can be modified by the user. |
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This field enables the user to enter the date of the invoice. |
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This field enables the user to enter the description of the invoice. |
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This tick box cannot be entered by the user. It is automatically activated when the annual fee events dealing with the open item and designed for the CoA accounting have been generated. |
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This tick box cannot be entered by the user. It is automatically activated when the annual fee events dealing with the open item and designed for the IFRS accounting have been generated. |
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Grid Yearly present values
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Block number 4
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This function helps the entry by enabling the automatic carry forward of the amounts of Rental, Financial depreciation and Financial costs of the period from which the function is called, to the next periods.
This function helps the entry by enabling the blanking of all the periods present in the grid.
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This tab displays the list of the assets linked to the lease contract and lists, for each one: the reference, the description, the purchase date, and the tax-excl. receipt value expressed in funding currency, company currency and IAS/IFRS currency (if the IAS/IFRS plan is managed). This information cannot be modified.
The linking of an asset to a contract is carried out in the Allocations tab of the Assets management screen, by entering the lease contract reference for the asset.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
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This field, non modifiable, contains the reference of the financial asset linked to the financial lease contract. |
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This field cannot be modified and contains the description of the asset. |
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This field, that cannot be modified, contains the purchase date of the financial asset. |
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This field, that cannot be modified, displays the ex. tax IAS/IFRS entry value of the fixed asset, expressed in the financing currency. |
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This field, that cannot be modified, displays the ex-tax IAS/IFRS entry value of the financial asset, expressed in company currency. |
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This non-editabe field contains the IAS/IFRS receipt value ex-tax of the financial asset. |
Totals
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Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in financing currency. |
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This field displays the contract financing currency, as a reminder. |
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Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in company currency. |
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This field displays the company management currency, as a reminder. |
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Total of the asset ex-tax receipt value, expressed in IAS/IFRS currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This function is used to access, in inquiry mode, the asset management screen from which the function is called.
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This tab is loaded if one or several updates of the borrowed capital have been performed on the contract.
It contains a table displaying, on the first line, the initial amount of the contract at creation, expressed in funding currency, company currency and (if managed) IAS/IFRS context currency.
Each following line corresponds to an update of the capital and contains the variance of the capital.
The updated amount of the borrowed capital is displayed at the bottom of the screen in the Totals area.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Valuations
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In the 1st line, this field contains the contract start date, and in the following lines, the date when the revision of the borrowed capital has been done. |
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In the 1st line, this field contains the contract initial amount and in each following line, the variation amount of the borrowed capital. |
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This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the company currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the company currency. |
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This field displays the exchange rate used to convert the borrowed capital amount into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This non-editable field displays the borrowed capital amount, converted into the IAS/IFRS context currency. |
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This tab is for free fields. The number of free fields managed, their titles, the miscellaneous tables assigned to the control of the Code-type free fields and the currency for each Amount-type free field depend on the setup carried out at Free field properties level.
These free fields can be used depending on the management requirements, to store unplanned data in the Main tab.
This tab also displays information useful to contract tracking: origin of the creation (transaction entry, import, etc.), code of the user at the origin of the creation followed by the creation date, and finally the code of the user who carried out the last modification followed by the date of this modification.
A button can be used to display a window presenting the journal of the events generated by the contract.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Codes
This field enables the user to precise the value of a free area of the alphanuméric type which a miscellaneous table can be linked to. 10 areas of this type are available. |
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Amounts
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This field enables the user to precise the value of a free area of the amount type, expressed in a parameterisable currency. 6 areas of this type are available. |
Currency which the amount is expressed in. |
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Coefficients
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This field enables the user to precise the value of a free area of the coefficient type. 2 areas of this type are available. |
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Dates
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This field enables the user to precise the value of a free area of the date type. 4 areas of this type are available. |
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Record tracking
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This field displays the origin of the record. |
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This field displays the user who created (entered) the record. |
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This field displays the creation (entry) date of the object. |
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This field displays the user that made the last modification on the recording. |
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This field displays the last modification date. |
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This button opens a window displaying the event log generated for the object.
The Details right-click on a line opens a screen displaying the event content, detailed over several tabs: |
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By default, the following reports are associated with this function :
FICHELEA : Leasing contract
LISLEA : List of rental contracts
This can be changed using a different setup.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window with the contract end date entered in the Main tab and which can be used to record the end of the contract. The contract end date may also be modified in this window.
Note: the contract end date must be less than or equal to the next fiscal year end date of the Accounting and fiscal context.
This action leads to:
This option in the Actions menu is available for Lease-type contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window with the Option exercise date and Scrap value entered in the Main tab.
These two values may be modified in this window, which is primarily used to record the purchase option exercise of the lease contract.
This action leads to:
Note: this action is irreversible; the purchase option exercise cannot be cancelled.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window which is used to terminate the lease contract.
This action leads to:
This action is irreversible; the termination of the contract cannot be cancelled.
This option in the Actions menu is available for contracts whose status is In process.
It opens a window that is used to modify the following information of the contract:
- Contract end date.
For the Lease-type contract:
- Loaned capital variation: positive or negative correction to apply to the borrowed capital; this variation, specified in the funding currency, is automatically converted and displayed in company currency and management currency of the IAS/IFRS context (if it is managed).
- Scrap value (specified in the funding currency, and displayed in the company currency and management currency of the IAS/IFRS context if it is managed).
- Purchase option exercise date.
- Accounting code.
This action leads to:
The pre-update data are therefore archived and can be viewed using the LEAACTU Contracts actualization specific report, which displays the different stages in the life of the contract.
When the update pertains to the amount of borrowed capital, the capital variations can be viewed in the Valuation tab.
When the update of the contract affects the contract end date, it also:
In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :
"You must unlink the assets from the contract before changing its type".
The holding type of the assets must be coherent with the contract type: the assets linked to a lease-type contract must necessarily have the holding type: Lease; those linked to a contract of the long term rent-type contract must necessarily have the holding type: Long term rent.