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What is ASC 840?

The prior lease-accounting standard, under which most operating leases were disclosed in the footnotes rather than recognized on the balance sheet, and which used explicit 75% and 90% bright-line tests.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.