What is a Lease Payment?

A Lease Payment is consideration (like cash) remitted to a lessor in exchange for the right to use a leased asset.

 

Why are Lease Payments important?
 

Lease Payments are crucial to Lease Accounting as they are a key input used to derive the opening balances of the lease liability and the ROU asset. As a result, they also form the basis of the subsequent accounting under the new regulations.