Today, most companies need to have more transparency and full visibility into their wide portfolio of leased assets, from computer equipment to office space to vehicles. This visibility is critical in developing effective compliance strategies for new regulatory lease accounting and reporting standards and for making better business decisions. To support lease accounting for regulatory compliance and drive more efficient cost controls, your company needs to have clear visibility into your global lease portfolio, including: ••Lease composition ••Key lifecycle dates ••Value of leased assets ••Responsible organization units

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Solution Extensions
SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa
Understand Your Lease Portfolio
and Comply with New Lease
Accounting Standards
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Objectives
Clear visibility of your corporate
lease portfolio
Today, most companies need to have more transparency and full visibility
into their wide portfolio of leased assets, from computer equipment to office
space to vehicles. This visibility is critical in developing effective compliance
strategies for new regulatory lease accounting and reporting standards and
for making better business decisions.
To support lease accounting for regulatory
compliance and drive more efficient cost
controls, your company needs to have clear
visibility into your global lease portfolio,
including:
•• Lease composition
•• Key lifecycle dates
•• Value of leased assets
•• Responsible organization units
To achieve clear visibility into your global
lease portfolio, you require a unified set of
lease data.With the SAP® Lease Administration
application by Nakisa, you can create a central
repository of all your lease assets across
your company. You can use the application to
capture and report lease contract information
to comply with new accounting standards.
The application also provides visibility into
lease exposure to help your company optimize
your global leased assets portfolio and make
better business decisions.
Clear visibility of your corporate
lease portfolio
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Improve visibility into lease exposure
for better compliance
The way most companies account for
operating leases is changing. Standard
practices of reporting leases off-balance-sheet
and disclosing them in notes of financial
statements are disappearing. New standards
under U.S. GAAP and International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS) regulations are
requiring organizations to capitalize operat-
ing leases and record them in balance sheets
as assets and obligations.
Is your company ready for these regulatory
changes? For many companies, lease data is
dispersed across their entire organizations.
Different people collect data using diverse
processes and mechanisms, which can trigger
significant variation in quality, integrity, and
relevance of lease data across multiple infor-
mation sources. Documentation is often poor,
such as assumptions used for lease classifi-
cation. Challenges can compound exponen-
tially as lease portfolios increase and spread
across regions globally, sparking significant
risk of regulatory noncompliance, as well as
inaccuracy in reporting.
Find out how your company’s leases comply with the
new IFRS and U.S. GAAP standards.
Improve visibility into lease exposure
for better compliance
Unified lease data from extensible
data collection forms
Lease traceability and collaboration
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Unified lease data from extensible
data collection forms
SAP Lease Administration provides a single
point of entry for lease data collection. With
the application’s functionalities for importing
mass data, you can import data from multiple
contract sources to create an accurate, central
repository for your lease data for new, past,
and future leases.
Your company can prepare for future lease
compliance requirements. You can also use
flexible options in SAP Lease Administration
to collect additional lease attributes. With this
adaptable data model, you can capture custom
attributes for your business processes. In
addition, the application helps simplify and
standardize data entry for any type of lease
operation, either for the lessor or the lessee.
Get a single source of truth for your
lease data to comply with the latest
accounting standards.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Improve visibility into lease exposure
for better compliance
Unified lease data from extensible
data collection forms
Lease traceability and collaboration

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Lease traceability and collaboration
With SAP Lease Administration, your company
can optimize traceability for lease administra-
tion compliance and reporting processes.
Various teams can collaborate in collecting
relevant lease data. A user-friendly interface
in the application requires minimum training
for these processes. Use this interface to
manage lease administration processes more
efficiently, productively, and transparently.
The intuitive and engaging user interface
requires minimal training for inexperienced
users.
You can track any changes made to the
lease data as well as track who made the
changes from start to finish. As a result,
you can establish and maintain an audit trail
of changes and decisions made throughout
the data collection process and help ensure
traceability for compliance and reporting.
Multiple key stakeholders can collaborate
by sending messages, receiving alerts,
validating data accuracy, and collecting
changes during the lifecycle of leases the
stakeholders manage. Consequently, data
accuracy becomes more easily achievable
through review of information by legal
advisors, accountants, government bodies,
consultants, and other relevant stakeholders.
Collaboration can provide a mechanism
to validate contractual attributes of leased
assets. See the figure on the next page.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Improve visibility into lease exposure
for better compliance
Unified lease data from extensible
data collection forms
Lease traceability and collaboration

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BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Improve visibility into lease exposure
for better compliance
Unified lease data from extensible
data collection forms
Lease traceability and collaboration
Start
collaboration
Upload
content
Classify and
collect data
Share for
validation
Receive
request
Review contract
summary
Validate data
Share for
approval
Receive
request
Review contract
on a dashboard
Discuss and
approve for
business
Finalize
process
Figure: Collaboration across the enterprise for accurate and validated lease data
Sara Lopes
Contract analyst
Tom Reilly
Senior accountant
John Miller
Financial executive

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Benefits of using lease data analysis
Use the SAP Lease Administration application
to:
•• Prepare for compliance with new lease
accounting standards – Access company-
wide lease data, visibility, and traceability to
support regulatory standards.
•• Visualize lease portfolio and exposure
quickly and intuitively – Use the dash-
board in SAP Lease Administration to help
break down composition of your assets,
including key dates, value of leased assets,
and responsible organizational units.
•• Centralize all lease data in one reposi-
tory – Import and integrate data quickly
from thousands of contracts from various
sources into a single repository with mass
importing and field-mapping functionalities.
•• Improve and track end-of-term and
renewal lease processes – Gain insight into
lifecycles of lease contracts, including key
dates such as renewals and expirations.
•• Speed up lease acquisition approvals by
collaborating with key stakeholders –
Communicate new lease information and
lease renewals easily with key stakeholders
to help ensure assessment, validation, and
approval of legal, financial, and business
implications. Simplify validation and approval
processes.
•• Analyze the business impacts of your
decisions – Use analytics to visualize
various scenarios about your lease portfolio
to support strategic decision making and
to optimize your company’s global assets
portfolio.
Benefits of using lease data analysis
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Summary
As a single point of entry to collect and
validate the contractual attributes of leased
assets, the SAP® Lease Administration
application by Nakisa provides visibility into
your company’s lease exposure. Optimize
global assets portfolio management and
support accounting processes for more
efficient cost controlling and regulatory
compliance using the application.
Objectives
•• Be prepared for new accounting standards
and ensure you have the right tools to
achieve reporting compliance
•• Unify all leasing data into a single repository
in an SAP application
•• Obtain required legal, financial, and business
validations quickly and efficiently
•• Visualize lease exposure for better strategic
decision making and planning
Solution
•• One unified set of contractual data for
all your lease operations
•• Extensible data collection forms to
collect business-specific attributes
•• Collaboration throughout the data
collection process
•• Complete visibility into changes and
decisions made during data collection
Benefits
•• Prepare for compliance with leasing
accounting standards
•• Visualize your global lease portfolio and
exposure
•• Centralize all your lease data in one
repository
•• Speed up validation by collaborating
with stakeholders
•• Improve strategic decision making for
lease compliance
Learn more
To find out more, call your SAP representative
today or visit us online.
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