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A retailer signs a major new 10-year lease on a flagship store. What happens to its enterprise value at signing, under the leases-as-debt convention?

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EV goes UP. At commencement the company records a right-of-use asset and an equal lease liability. If your convention treats lease liabilities as debt, net-debt-like claims rise by the liability…

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