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Lease Accounting

IFRS 16 lease accounting. Calculations your auditor can verify.

The full lease lifecycle from initial recognition through modifications, foreign-currency retranslation, and termination. Multi-entity by design. Independently reviewed by an international audit firm; the full review report is shared during the product walkthrough.

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ZenTreasury lease entry form generating the IFRS 16 schedule from contract terms

Registration & schedules

Add a lease. Get the full schedule.

Enter the contract terms once and ZenTreasury generates the right-of-use asset, the lease liability, and the period-by-period schedule automatically. Depreciation, interest, and balance carry-forward follow the standard from the moment the lease is saved. Your lease data stays structured and under your team’s control.

ZenTreasury lease modification screen showing scope and term changes with an audit log

Modifications & remeasurements

Handle every change. Keep the audit trail.

Scope changes, term extensions, rate revisions, indexations, and partial terminations each recalculate the schedule with the right IFRS 16 treatment, and log the change with a timestamp and user. Auditors get the before-and-after picture without asking.

ZenTreasury multi-currency lease portfolio with IAS 21 FX translation

Multi-entity & multi-currency

Built for international portfolios.

Consolidate leases across subsidiaries, with leases in foreign currencies retranslated automatically at each reporting date. IAS 21 closing-rate translation, retranslation differences, and the resulting P&L impact are calculated and posted with paragraph references. Group-wide rollforward at the click of a period close.

ZenTreasury user-roles screen with maker-checker access control configuration

Roles & segregation of duties

The controls your auditor expects.

Role-based access with maker-checker workflow. Assign who can add a lease, who can approve a modification, and who can post the journals. Every action is attributed and timestamped so segregation-of-duties controls hold up under audit.

ZenTreasury reports library with IFRS 16 disclosure and maturity-analysis reports

Disclosures & reporting

30+ prebuilt reports for IFRS reporters.

Standard disclosure reports for maturity analysis, lease expense breakdown, additions and modifications, and ROU asset rollforward. Save your common report configurations, schedule recurring exports, and feed your group reporting pack without rebuilding the same query every quarter.

Independently reviewed by an international audit firm.

An international audit firm reviewed our IFRS 16 calculations, covering initial recognition, modifications, terminations, foreign currency contracts, interest and depreciation. The full review report is shared during the product walkthrough.

Same payment change. Three different IFRS 16 outcomes. Your ERP cannot tell them apart. We can.

A lease payment goes from €10,000 to €11,000. In your ERP, that is one event: the recurring payment changed. Under IFRS 16, it is three different events with three different accounting treatments, and your auditor will want evidence of which one occurred. The treatment depends on the contract behind the payment, not the payment itself.

The same payment change
€10,000 €11,000
Indexation clause
Event

The landlord exercised an annual indexation clause. Payment goes from €10,000 to €11,000.

What the ERP records

Recurring payment amount changed.

What IFRS 16 requires
  • Remeasure the lease liability using the original discount rate.
  • No adjustment to the right-of-use asset depreciation schedule.
  • Adjustment posts to lease liability and P&L.
Period Liability Δ
Before €248,500 0
After €256,400 +€7,900
Scope increase
Event

Additional floor space added to the lease. Payment goes from €10,000 to €11,000.

What the ERP records

Recurring payment amount changed.

What IFRS 16 requires
  • Add to the right-of-use asset.
  • Increase the liability using the current discount rate.
  • Separate accounting for the addition. Depreciation schedule extended to cover the added scope.
Component Amount Δ
ROU asset €2,400,000 0
Addition €240,000 +€240,000
New total €2,640,000 +10%
Term extension
Event

Lease extended by two years with a renegotiated rate. Payment goes from €10,000 to €11,000.

What the ERP records

Recurring payment amount changed.

What IFRS 16 requires
  • Remeasure both the liability and the right-of-use asset using the current discount rate.
  • Rebuild the depreciation schedule for the new term.
  • Adjustment posts to liability and ROU asset.
Component Before After
Term 36 months 60 months
Liability €248,500 €398,200
Depreciation Linear / 36 Rebuilt / 60

Same payment in the ERP. Three different journal entries, three different schedules, three different accounting outcomes. Your auditor can verify each one independently against the underlying audit trail.

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FAQ

What is IFRS 16?
IFRS 16 is the IASB lease accounting standard, effective 1 January 2019. It requires lessees to recognise most leases on the balance sheet as a right-of-use (ROU) asset and a matching lease liability, replacing the operating and finance lease split under IAS 17.
What does ZenTreasury calculate under IFRS 16?
ZenTreasury produces right-of-use assets, lease liabilities, amortisation and interest schedules, and journal entries. It handles lease modifications and remeasurements, index-linked indexation, multi-currency leases with period-end retranslation, and partial terminations.
How is ZenTreasury’s IFRS 16 accuracy assured?
Our IFRS 16 calculations, covering initial recognition, modifications, terminations, foreign currency contracts, interest and depreciation, were reviewed by an international audit firm. The full review report is shared during the product walkthrough.
Can my auditor verify the numbers?
Yes. Every schedule, voucher and report can be exported to Excel or PDF, and the calculations are transparent. Your auditor can reproduce and verify them independently.

IFRS 16 is often the first contract accounting problem.

Lease accounting exposes the same problem finance teams face across loans, FX positions and guarantees: contract terms sit outside the ERP, while accounting teams still need schedules, journals, disclosures and an audit trail. ZenTreasury extends the same governed model from IFRS 16 leases to treasury contracts.

Contract → schedule → journal → disclosure → audit trail

See it handle your lease portfolio.

Talk to our team. We will scope your portfolio, walk through the independently reviewed calculations, and show you the audit trail your auditor would follow.