Leases

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The staff informed the Board that the FASB has made the decision that lessor accounting (including subleases) should be further analysed and included as a high level discussion in the upcoming discussion paper (DP) with specific questions, but without changing the scope of the DP.

The staff noted that the FASB has also discussed whether in-substance purchases should be within the scope of the project, but decided no change in scope.

Furthermore, FASB discussed how a right-of-use model as proposed for lessees in the DP could be applied to lessor and decided that its DP should have a high-level discussion of lessor accounting.

The staff asked the Board whether it was willing to defer publication of the DP to include the outcome of the FASB staff analysis.

The Board discussed several aspects of these outcomes of the FASB discussion and the possible impact on the IASB's project, particularly on the timing and possible delays. Staff was asked how long the additional analysis by the FASB on lessor accounting would take. Staff responded that could be a matter of weeks, but possibly a month.

The chairman noted that this would cast doubt over the 2011 completion goal and expressed concerns over the massive changes of the Board membership at that point. He proposed that the IASB should go ahead with the DP as it stands and publish any output from the FASB as a supplementary DP. The IASB DP, to be issued shortly, should highlight that there is more to come.

The Board agreed.

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