Research Studies & Reports
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Forecasting Quality: An Executive Guide to Company Evaluation
Forecasting Quality is a study that identifies key measures and useful indicators helpful in successfully managing an equipment leasing and finance business - measures that can be used to improve the financial quality of the industry.
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Capital Adequacy: Is Your Company Prepared For Basel II Implementation?
The final draft of the Basel II Accord on banking, entitled "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards" has been introduced but its interpretation remains a moving target for those preparing for its implementation. Although predominantly a banking accord, preliminary interpretation shows Basel II has far reaching effects on all industries, including leasing.
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Equipment Leasing and Finance Companies at a Crossroads (A report from ELA's 2000 Funding Summit)
Between July 98 - June 00, the number of "bad events" in the industry have been unprecedented. These events taken together have put the entire specialty finance segment in general, and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Industry in particular, out of favor with investors. What went wrong? What changed and were the changes temporary or permanent? What did companies do wrong? What needed to change for things to get better? In this crisis atmosphere, ELA convened a Funding Summit to explore these and other questions.
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Intellectual Property Leasing and Its Implications for the Leasing Industry 2002
While the equipment leasing industry remains profitable, industry consolidation and mergers are leaving some lessors struggling for profitability. The leasing industry has a relatively new sector of growth opportunity in technology and intellectual property assets. Intellectual Property Leasing and Its Implications for the Leasing Industry provides you insight into this growing sector and identifies available opportunities.
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Leasing and the Small Firm 2002
This study examines the factors that influence the use of leasing by small privately-held companies (i.e., what are the characteristics of small firms that make them more likely to use leasing relative to other financing alternatives). In particular, whether the use of leasing changes as firms mature with age and size, both of which lower the monitoring costs associated with a common alternative to lease financing: straight debt financing. The study also examines the impact of ownership structure, managerial experience, and credit rating on the firm's propensity to use lease financing. The results of the study should give lessors a better understanding of the types of small firms that use lease financing, and consequently should allow them to more effectively market their products to this large pool of potential clients.
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Net Readiness of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Industry
Marketplace dynamics, the leasing life cycle, and organizational effectivenessÑall are affected by business-to-business e-commerce. As lessors work to devise long-term strategies for their business, along comes e-business. What does it take to get up to "net speed"? The Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation commissioned KPMG Consulting to conduct a qualitative study to see how small- to medium-ticket leasing firms are faring. Corporate elements that were analyzed for e-business readiness were leadership readiness, governance readiness, technology readiness, and organizational competencies. Published 2000.
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Perfect Storms: Why Successful Companies Have Exited the Marketplace
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation commissioned a study to examine the true view of what happened and why several previously successful companies exited the marketplace between 1999-2001. Each company's story is unique but the ends are similar. This study looks at company business models and strategy, core strengths, capital structure, capital raising strategy, growth strategy, management experience, corporate infrastructure and accounting principals.
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The Basel II Accord: What Does It Mean For the North American Leasing Market?
Like an iceberg, there is much more to Basel than first meets the eye and leasing company CEO's must ensure that their firms are ready. This study will provide you with what you need to know and how to prepare for Basel.
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The Characteristics of Venture Lease Financing
In the 2000-2001 high technology startups were often funded through venture capital funding and venture lease financing. Despite the growth in this form of financing, there has been little research conducted on the nature and costs of these transactions. This report aims to fill in this gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics and yields associated with venture leasing, and comparing these findings with those associated with traditional capital leasing and venture capital.
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The Risk of Non Appropriation of Small Ticket Municipal Leasing
Among the many risks faced by lessors in the process of leasing equipment is one particular type described as non-appropriation risk. This type of risk is difficult to predict and even more difficult to price. The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of non-appropriation risk and to observe its frequency of occurrence, particularly for small ticket municipal leases. The study examined lease characteristics often used by lessors to lessen the incidence of non-appropriation. The study concludes with a list of helpful suggestions put forward by those in the industry who have found their suggestions to be helpful in reducing, or even eliminating, non-appropriations.
$10.00