Operating Lease Converter Excel Model

Operating lease expenses are really financial expenses, and should be treated as such. Accounting standards allow them to be treated as operating expenses. This Excel Model will convert commitments to make operating leases into debt and adjust the operating income accordingly, by adding back the imputed interest expense on this debt.

- Prof. Aswath Damodaran

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