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Dear CPA and students,

Please help me on this. Let's say I have some Fixed Assets in my business that I borrowed from a Friend. I am not paying any rent or interest on it. I plan to return the items after certain period.

1. When I first add the Fixed Asset, I should credit a Liability Account, what is a good account name for the Liability Account?

2. Do I need to depreciate those borrowed assets? If I depreciate, then I will need to record depreciation expense every month. but since there is no loss of value when I return those items, there is actually no expense and I will have to record some "other income" when I return those items. Is that logical?

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You're not paying the leasee but typically this would fall under either a capital lease or an operating lease based on a set of criteria, that I don't feel like typing out :). This would determine if you would need to depreciate the asset (capital lease only). Also, you would need to know what type of fixed asset it is, as land is not depreciable. Now that I think of it, if your not paying rent or anything for that matter why would you book a liability? You wouldn't. Very weird situation as it would never happen.

Fixed assets always depreciate regardless on what you're paying (except land as I noted above). The leasee would be booking the depreciation without a doubt because you are not paying anything.



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