Income from Leased Machinery/Equipment

Starting this year the rules for accounting for a capital lease have changed, I suggest you get with a tax accountant to insure the 2019 rules are followed

Does this mean you need to enter the actual equipment being leased as a fixed asset and the Equipment Lease as the Income Account?  And does any of this change if the Lessee will not own the equipment at the end of the lease?

Hi there, @jennsears5.

Allow me to share some details on how to record the customer's transaction about leasing your equipment.

You can create a service fee item for the equipment that is leased by your customer. Regarding your other concern about creating a liability account, it is not applicable in the scenario that you've mentioned. 

Also, note that the Fixed Asset is entered from the purchase date of your equipment, while the Lease Income is used when your customer is renting equipment.

Now, you can proceed to create a service item for the lease transaction of your customer. I'd be happy to show you how to do that:

1. Go to the Lists menu and select Item List.
2. Click The Item drop-down button and choose New.
3. Select Service in the for the Type of item. Then enter the details of the fields needed. This is how the process looks like:

However, if you are referring to create a Capital Lease, I'd recommend contacting your accountant to help you get to the bottom of it. 

I've added an article you can review about products and services in QuickBooks Desktop: Add, edit, and delete items.

I'll be around if you have other questions. Click the Reply button below to let me know. Take care.