Leasing as a modern form of business financing
Abstract
A lease agreement is a contract between two parties, the lessor and the lessee. The lessor is the legal owner of the asset, the lessee obtains the right to use the asset in return for rental payments. A lease exists when a customer controls the right to use an identified item, which is when the customer has exclusive use of the item for a period of time and can decide how to use it. Although the first agreement of leasing appeared already in antiquity, the real boom of this form financing the economic activity occurred in the twentieth century. Leasing is currently one of the most common, alternative in relation to credit and loans, forms of obtaining external sources of corporate financing. The aim of the article is to present the idea of leasing agreements, its elements and types, as well as to characterize the development of the leasing market on a global scale. Publication is a review and synthesis of available theories and ideas on leasing with the elements of deductive reasoning. Authors used English-language literature and websites.
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