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A lease modification includes adding or terminating the right to use one or more underlying assets, or extending or shortening the contractual lease term. IFRS 16's lease modification guidance can be summarised into the diagram overleaf.

How to apply lease modification under ASC 840. Under ASC 840, a change in a lease other than to extend the lease terms requires that a test be performed to determine if a new lease has been created and, if so, a second test determines the accounting for that new lease.

Account for the lease modification as a termination of the original lease and creation of a new lease from the effective date of the modification. Measure the carrying amount of the underlying asset as the net investment in the original lease immediately before the effective date of the modification.

A lessee should account for any direct costs, lease incentives, or other payments made by the lessee or lessor in connection with a lease modification in the same manner as those items would be accounted for in connection with a new lease.

The following principles should be applied in the financial statements of lessors: at commencement of the lease term, the lessor should record a finance lease in the balance sheet as a receivable, at an amount equal to the net investment in the lease [IAS 17.36]

A lessor's accounting for a lease modification depends on the type of modification made to the lease. Depending on the changes made to the lease contract, a lease modification can result in either a separate new contract (i.e., accounted for separate from the original contract) or a new modified contract.

IAS 17 classifies leases into two types: a finance lease if the lease transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership; and. an operating lease if the lease does not transfer substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership.