The Finance Director's Guide to Purchasing Leasing - Tapa blanda

Leasing is becoming an increasingly popular method of finance owing to its distinctpotential benefits, including a small initial outlay, fixed rate of interest and taxrelief. But, with a host of different leases available, it is all too easy to opt for an inappropriate one or fall prey to hidden punitive clauses and end up worse off than withother financing alternatives. To ensure you make a balanced, informed decision, you need The FinanceDirector's Guide to Purchasing Leasing. Written specifically for those on the purchasing side, this brand new briefing clearly sets out the pros and cons, offers a thorough explanation of the various lease types and alternative financing options. It provides the critical decision criteria you should apply to any leasing purchase, ensuring that you are able to negotiate the best arrangement for your business. Contents include: *Lease types *Reasons to lease *Asset acquisition model *Leasing sources *Decision factors *Alternatives *What does the lesser do? Plus - includes disk of templates to help with interest calculations

Alastair Day has worked in the leasing industry for 20 years both buying and selling leasing. He worked originally for the NFC negotiating funding and administering leases and switched to marketing leasing and vendor schemes upon the privatisation of the NFC in 1980. During the 1980s he was a director of a vendor leasing company which grew rapidly based on programmes in the IT, print and machine tool industries. The directors sold the company to a PLC as a consultancy and corporate lessor concentrating on the computer and communications industries. Alastair has a degree in Economics and German from London University and a MBA from the Open University Business School, and is an associate lecturer in corporate finance with the OUBS. He develops and presents courses on a range of topics including various aspects of leasing, credit analysis, corporate finance and financial modelling.