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Public companies have already adopted ASC 842. Calendar year-end privately held companies are required to adopt ASC 842 effective January 1, 2022. Privately held companies with fiscal year-ends are required to adopt ASC 842 in the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2021.

When calculating the present value, a lessee should discount the foreign currency lease payments to present value and then remeasure that present value into the functional currency using the exchange rate at lease commencement. The discount rate should be the rate implicit in a lease.

More formally stated, an ROU asset is any non-monetary asset that is leased by an entity and its use by the lessee is pursuant to the definition of the right of use in the new lease accounting standards: ASC 842 for US GAAP, GASB 87 for US government GAAP, and IFRS 16 for international accounting.

Under the ASC 842 lease accounting standard, leases are categorized into two types: operating leases and finance leases. Operating leases are those where the terms do not mimic the purchase of an asset, while finance leases have characteristics that are similar to purchasing an underlying asset.

The initial and subsequent accounting by lessees for operating leases and finance leases, including specific issues such as evaluating ROU assets for impairment, applying ASC 842 to leases denominated in a foreign currency and recognizing leases acquired in business combinations and asset acquisitions.

ASC 842, or Topic 842, is the new lease accounting standard issued by the FASB and governs how entities record the financial impact of their lease agreements. Among other changes, it requires all public and private entities reporting under US GAAP to record the vast majority of their leases to the balance sheet.

Variable lease payments based on an index or a rate include, for example, payments linked to a consumer price index, payments linked to a benchmark interest rate (such as LIBOR) or payments that vary to reflect changes in market rental rates.

ASC 842 requires organizations with lease assets to recognize nearly all leases as assets and liabilities, whether classified as operating leases or financing leases, subject to certain exemptions.