Hire Purchase & Leasing
Hire Purchase & Leasing
Hire Purchase & Leasing
HP- Concept
Goods are bought and sold under the following
terms:
Payment of periodic installments
Immediate possession by buyer
Ownership rest with seller
Ownership is transferred only after the payment of last
installment
Repossession of goods in case of default
Installment treated as hire charge.
Definition
According to Hire Purchase Act 1972
“an agreement under which goods are let on hire and
under which the hirer has an option to purchase them in
accordance with the terms of the agreement, and includes an
agreement under which:
• Possession of goods is delivered by the owner thereof to a person
on the condition that such person pays the agreed amount in
periodic payments.
• The property of goods is to pass to such a person on the payment
of the last of such installment.
• Such a person has a right to terminate the agreement any time
before the property so passes.”
Features
• Payment made by hirer to hiree (vendor)
• Possession is transferred immediately to buyer
• Ownership remains with the vendor till last
installment is paid
• Repossession of goods in case of default and
can treat amount received as hire charge.
• Installments include interest and principal
• Usually hiree charges interest on flat rate
Rights of hirer
• Right of protection
• Right of notice
• Right of repossession
Where hire purchase price is less than 15000, one half of the price has
been paid
Where hire purchase price is not less than 15000, three fourth of hire
purchase price has been paid
In case of motor vehicles
One half, where hire purchase price is less than 5000
Three fourth, where hire purchase price is not less than 5000 but less
than 15000
Three fourth or such higher proportion not exceeding nine tenth where
hire purchase price is not less than 15000
Contd..
• Right of statement
• Right to excess amount
Advantages
• No immediate cash
• Easy possession
• Economic growth
• Thrift
• Relief to buyer
Disadvantages
• Available only to reputed buyers
• Indiscriminate/ liberal purchases leads to bankruptcy
• Buyer has to mortgage future income
• Danger of buyer losing property during depression, as
value of property diminishes
• Danger of buyer having to lose even the paid
installments in the event of default
• Loss to seller in the event of default by buyer, which
may result in seller having to re-possess an article
which may not fetch much market value
Leasing
• An arrangement which provides the firm with
the use and control of assets without buying
and owning the same.
• A contract between lessor (owner) and lessee
(user).
• Lease rent has to be paid
Definition
According to Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, “a
lease is an agreement whereby lessor conveys to lessee, in
return for rent, the right to use an asset for an agreed period
of time. Lessor is a person who conveys to another person
(lessee) the right to use an asset in consideration of a
payment of periodical rental under a lease agreement.
Lessee is a person who obtains from the lessor, the right to
use the asset for a periodical rental payment for an agreed
period of time.”
Financing arrangement that provides a firm with the advantage
of using an asset without owning it is termed as leasing.
Features
• Parties
Lessor – who conveys to another person (lessee) the right
to use the asset in consideration of lease rental
Lessee- person who obtains the right to use the asset
from lessor for periodical rental
• Asset
Property to be leased out
Fixed assets of high value
E g: automobile, aircraft, building, Plant & machinery
Ownership is separated from use
Contd..
• Term
Term of lease is lease period
Period for which lease agreement is in operation
Primary & secondary lease period
Primary lease period- period during which lessor wants to get
back investment together with interest
Secondary lease period- only nominal rentals are charged to
keep lease agreement operational
• Lease rentals
Consideration payable by lessee as specified in lease
transaction
Types of lease
• Financial lease
– A lease under which the present value of minimum lease
payments at the inception of lease exceeds or is equal to
substantially the whole of the fair value of leased asset.
– Non cancellable
– Lessee is responsible for the leased asset
– Full payout lease & true lease
• Operating lease
• Conveyance- type lease
• Leveraged lease
Contd…
• Sale & leaseback
• Partial pay out lease
• Consumer leasing
• Balloon leasing
• Close end leasing
• Open end leasing
• Swap leasing
• Wrap leasing
Contd…
• Import leasing
• Cross border leasing
• Double-dip leasing
• Triple-dip leasing
• Japanese cross border leasing
• International leasing