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Commercial Equipment Lease & Loan Rates - Explained !
Looking for the best deal in town on equipment leasing rates in commercial leasing and asset acquisition ? Our clients ' interest ‘in getting those best rates is always somewhat amusing to us. Why? Simply because the ability to understand how equipment leasing and equipment loans are priced and how rates are derived is not always clear to Canadian business owners and financial managers.
Lets examine some of the key factors that drive your final pricing when dealing with equipment leasing companies and how you can have a very direct effect on the assets you finance and the price you pay - as always it seems to always come down to that ' monthly payment ' - so lets demystify that process .
First of all many business owners never take the time to look at their alternatives when it comes to equipment leasing of their fixed assets. Two key issues come into play here, one is simply they type of lease they enter into (there are two types - do you know which is which) and the second is understanding what the 5 (yes five!) components are of a very simple lease calculation.
Back to point # 1: When you are making that lease versus buy decision make sure you evaluate your alternatives.
The key alternative to lease finance is one in which you might consider a bank term loan, or alternatively purchasing the asset out of your operating cash flow based on existing credit lines that are in place. But quite frankly the reason you are reading this in the first place is that you have already decided that commercial equipment lease financing is in fact the best method of asset acquisition - at this point you just want a good deal . So we're assuming you have done your lease vs. buy analysis and are focused on our core subject today - a great lease rate and structure!
Getting back to those 5 key elements in lease financing pricing - what are they? They are simply as follows - the term of your lease, the interest rate being charged by the lessor, the value of your transaction, the future value of the lease, ( i.e. what happens at the last payment ) and out of that falls nicely # 5 - your monthly payment .
Many business owners, and are we say, financial managers don’t use a financial calculator. If you have access to that type of calculator you can simply input either your data, or assumptions on any of those 4 critical data points and out will pop the last piece of data that completes the commercial leasing pricing and structure.
Quick example - lets say you are leasing an asset for $100,000 - you want a 5 year lease, you think your lease interest rate should be about 8%, and you want to own the equipment at the end of the lease. Congratulations, you have just quantified 4 out of the 5 data points - Enter those into your lease calculator and you will see that the monthly payment is 2014$.
But wait, let’s say you can only afford 1500$ a month and you have done your analysis on the payback of the asset. Enter 1500$ into your lease calculator and it will show you that to achieve that lease payment the term must be 88 monthly, not 60 months .
Getting the point ? Its a simple one - understand that if you know the key elements of your lease inputs you can manipulate that info to achieve either the best rate, the best monthly payment, the optimal term of the lease, etc .
The type of analysis we have just done relates to a capital lease transaction - remember we spoke of two types of leases. If you want an operating lease (i.e. use, but not ownership of the asset) our data elements are just the same but you'll find that your overall interest rate on the amount financed will be much lower, because the lessor and you have opted to have the lease company own the asset.
Do we even have to mention that the key driver in the actual interest rate charged is very simply the overall credit quality of your firm when it comes to borrowing.
So what have we covered - simply that you have the ability to manipulate key lease elements to drive a final pricing and structure that works best for your firm. Is there a quicker way to ensure you have all the points covered - there is! Speak to a trusted, credible and experienced Canadian lease financing advisor with a track record of business financing success who can ensure you the final deal is the best deal in commercial equipment leasing in Canada.
7 Park Avenue Financial :
South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8
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Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.
Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.
Stan Prokop
