(this post is old – check my recent one)
Leasing has grown tremendously in popularity. It’s growing as a way of capital investment. Leasing instead of borrowing. Instead of borrowing money to buy airline, a company leases it. Leasing is most popular in USA, but is growing globally also. The table indicates the estimated value of new lease contracts written during 1994 for various countries (it says that leasing now provides about one-eighth of the world’s equipment financing requirements: (1)