Capital Leases Future Minimum Payments Present Value of Net
Minimum Payments
CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPaymentsRollUp
This is a common disclosure within SEC financial filings. This analysis looks at typical approaches for
disclosing this information and also how this information is represented when expressed in the XBRL
reporting format.
Typically, a financial report will have a balance sheet which contains current and noncurrent line items
for capital lease obligations. For example:
In addition, one would expect that an SEC XBRL financial filing will have a text block and a detailed
disclosure of the present value of future minimum payments under capital lease obligations which ties
to the balance sheet:
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The following is a summary of these disclosures which were found within SEC XBRL financial filings:
What follows is more detailed information about typical SEC XBRL financial filings which contained this
disclosure.
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
Less: amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Less: current portion of obligations under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Long-term portion of obligation under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
This representes the HTML and Text block disclosure. If this disclosure exists, a text block should
likewise exist: us-gaap:ScheduleOfFutureMinimumLeasePaymentsForCapitalLeasesTableTextBlock
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Commentary: This is the most common approach taken for this disclosure. The only piece missing form
this is if a filer reports executory costs. Only a handful of public companies report executory costs. See
examples later in this analysis which show executory costs.
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https://eri.xbrlcloud.com/edgar-report-information/rest/entities/0001041379/filings/0001193125-13080439/components/5073061/rendering/
Future minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Capital leases total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
No current/noncurrent breakdown is provided. Not required for unclassified balance sheets.
Commentary: This follows a similar pattern to the first, however it uses the concept usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue rather than the concept usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
The following is the documentation for those two concepts which is then followed by a screen shot of
the US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy which shows these two concepts within the taxonomy hierarchy :
Label
Name
Documentation
Capital Leases, Future
Minimum Payments Due (1
below)
us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Amount of minimum lease
payments for capital leases
Capital Leases, Future
Minimum Payments, Net
Minimum Payments (2
below)
us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
Amount of minimum lease
payments for capital leases net of
executory costs, which include
amounts paid by the lessee to the
lessor for insurance, maintenance
and taxes.
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Essentially, #1 is a subtotal before executory costs and #2 is a subtotal before interest included in
payments. The question is: Which concept should be used if executory costs are not reported? As long
at the two concepts are not reversed, automated processes can figure this out fairly easily.
NOTE: This is a common situation throughout the US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy. The approach taken within
the taxonomy and within related taxonomy documentation is inconsistent.
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of minimum capital lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Less current installments: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Noncurrent obligations under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
Commentary: Current and noncurrent are explicitly provided on the balance sheet. (That is why the
rendering engine makes a mistake and shows the extra columns in the first rendering.)
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Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Interest portion: NOT REPORTED.
Present value of minimum capital lease payments: NOT REPORTED.
Commentary: Why is there no amount representing interest and a present value and amount of
interest?
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Total future capital lease payments including interest: NOT PROVIDED.
Less: interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Net minimum capital lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Lesss: current portion: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Non-current portion: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
Commentary: This disclosure does not show a total for the minimum lease payments (before the
interest) but everything else is the same and does show a current/noncurrent breakdown. This is exactly
the same as the HTML version of this disclosure and the text block disclosure shown here:
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Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Interest portion: NOT SHOWN
Present value of minimum capital lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Current portion: NOT SHOWN
Noncurrent portion: NOT SHOWN
Commentary: Why is the interest potion not shown? This is an insurance company which does not
have a classified balance sheet, so they don’t break down the current/noncurrent portion.
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Total minimum lease payments is: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amount representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Capital lease obligations: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligations
Commentary: This is consistent with the majority of other filers in most respects, however “usgaap:CapitalLeaseObligations” is used as the total and the current/noncurrent breakdown is not shown
within this report component. However, the current/noncurrent breakdown is shown in a separate
report component which contains that disclosure.
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Capital lease obligations including interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less: Amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Capital lease obligation: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Does not show current/noncurrent breakdown.
Commentary: For some reason the 2014 to 2017 facts are represented in a funky place.
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Operating and capital together under the same [Line Items] which is less than optimal, but the reported
facts are fine.
Total lease obligations, capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amount representing interest, capital leases: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of minimum capital lease obligations, capital lease: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Commentary: No current/noncurrent breakdown. The filer provides a classified balance sheet and the
current/noncurrent breakdown is NOT on the balance sheet. However, current/noncurrent capital lease
obligations where broken down as part of a long term debt breakdown, but it does not tie to the above
schedule. So basically, the current/noncurrent breakdown is NOT provided explicitly.
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Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments (which is
shown, even though it is ZERO which is good, but the filer used NIL which is less than optimal, but it
really does not mess anything up.)
Total principal obligations: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligations
Less: current portion: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Long-term capital lease: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
Commentary: The use of NIL is rare in financial reports. An appropriate use is, say, “Commitments and
contingencies” on the balance sheet where there is no number, but there is a disclosure related to
commitments and contingencies. In that case, ZERO is not really appropriate, reporting no value is not
appropriate and having no line items is not appropriate
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Gross capital lease obligations: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligations, seems like that should be usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue and that this is a different usage than most of the
other filers.
Less imputed interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Less current portion of capital lease obligation: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Total long-term capital lease obligations: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
Commentary: This is a very odd disclosure and hard to tie things together. The “Gross capital lease
obligations” concept seems odd. Why would the breakdown by year not be shown? Trying to tie all the
debt together is a nightmare in this Amazon filing. Why?
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This is a text block, us-gaap:ScheduleOfFutureMinimumLeasePaymentsForCapitalLeasesTableTextBlock,
does not include the imputed interest amounts or the net present value.
Commentary: Why would imputed interest not be shown? If imputed interest is zero, it might be better
to explicit make that statement by providing the line item and a value of zero. See other examples which
take this approach.
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Capital leases, future minimum payments due: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less Amount representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum future capital lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Less Principal portion of current installments: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Long-term portion of obligations under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
(Below is the text block for exactly the same disclosure, but they use different terminology)
Commentary: This is typical.
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Future minimum lease payment under capital lease – Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amount representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Commentary: Typical.
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments
This is the text block for the same disclosure, labels are exactly the same:
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Text block: us-gaap:ScheduleOfFutureMinimumLeasePaymentsForCapitalLeasesTableTextBlock
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of capital lease obligations: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Text block/HTML of the above detail of above:
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This disclosure is unnecessarily complicated to read because the filer combined some other information
that does not relate to future payments under capital leases with that disclosure. This capital lease
disclosure has no “range”. The information is readable by both humans and computers, but having the
range characteristic would cause someone to need to manually look at what is going on here.
Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Less current installments of obligations under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
Obligations under capital leases: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent
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By representing operating leases and capital leases together, something that related to the operating
leases makes the capital lease information just a little harder to read.
Future minimum lease payments under capital leases – Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amount representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
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Total minimum rentals: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Capital Lease Obligations, Total: us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligations
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less: executory costs: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsExecutoryCosts
Net minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
Less: amounts representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Commentary: This is different than the others shown so far in that it has executory costs and a subtotal
after executory costs and before interest. Only a handful of filers report that they have executory costs.
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Total minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue
Less: Amount representing taxes, included in total minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsExecutoryCosts
Net minimum lease payments: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
Less: Amount representing interest: us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsInterestIncludedInPayments
Present value of net minimum lease payments: usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments
Commentary: Likewise, this disclosure has executory costs and a subtotal before imputed interest. This
disclosure ties to the total per the balance sheet, but a different number ties than all of the other
disclosures. See that the balance sheet does not show the present value of lease payments but rather
the total minimum lease payments; the gross amount rather than the net like pretty much all of the
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others.
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Conclusions:
This representation tends to be one of the more common approaches to providing this disclosure.
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However, that disclosure does not have a line item for executory costs and for a subtotal which would
exist between executory costs and imputed interest. (See the examples which show executory costs.)
The following is a summary of observations:
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
The concept us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsDue is the correct concept to
represent “Total minimum lease payments”. When executory costs are not reported, some
filers use the concept us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsNetMinimumPayments1
to represent this total. This appears less than optimal, but the financial report can be
interpreted. A bigger error would be for filings to reverse the those two totals.
The concept us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligations is used interchangeably with the concept usgaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsPresentValueOfNetMinimumPayments to
express exactly the same line item which is the present value of minimum lease payments as
shown above. This appears to be a duplicate concept in the US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy. Those
consuming information should be aware of this and this duplicate concept can be easily worked
around.
Sometimes there is and sometimes there is not a current and noncurrent breakdown. If a
balance sheet is not classified, this breakdown is not required. Sometimes the breakdown of
current/noncurrent is represented in a different report component, so it does exist somewhere.
Other times the breakdown is on the balance sheet.
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The concept which reconciles to the balance sheet is the present value of lease payments (net
amount) and not the total minimum payments (gross amount). This mistake was made by one
filer analyzed.
It the detailed disclosure is provided, then the text block disclosure will also most certainly be
provided: us-gaap:ScheduleOfFutureMinimumLeasePaymentsForCapitalLeasesTableTextBlock.
Two other text blocks commonly contain this disclosure: usgaap:LeasesOfLesseeDisclosureTextBlock and usgaap:DebtAndCapitalLeasesDisclosuresTextBlock; however, those two text blocks are not as
specific as the first text block.
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Bad choices:
https://eri.xbrlcloud.com/edgar-report-information/rest/entities/0000072331/filings/0001193125-12504725/components/4691642/rendering/
Commentary: This mixing of capital and operating is unnecessary. Simply separate them into distinct
report components or even different hierarchies in the same report component and they would be
easier to read and understand.
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Commentary: Provides no subtotal between the taxes (executory costs) and imputed interest. A
handful of filers chose this approach.
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https://eri.xbrlcloud.com/edgar-report-information/rest/entities/0000732712/filings/0001193125-13075713/components/4862895/rendering
Commentary: This filer combines the interest and executory costs as one line item and uses the
executory costs concept us-gaap:CapitalLeasesFutureMinimumPaymentsExecutoryCosts. That is better
then creating an extension.
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