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In a sale and lease back case, is it necessary to complete actual sale and purchase (i.e.change of ownership) in documents or simple accounting entries are suffcient to recognize an transaction a sale and lease back.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, san" id="quote">quote<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mzameer786</i>
<br />In a sale and lease back case, is it necessary to complete actual sale and purchase (i.e.change of ownership) in documents or simple accounting entries are suffcient to recognize an transaction a sale and lease back.

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<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">In sales and lease back the leasing company purchases your owned asset at an agreed price. Without actual sale and purchase it cannot pay the sales price.
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