Financial Impact of renting

Renting is an operating expense of an organisation. It is a cost of the assets, owned by someone else, used by the organisation. It is the cheapest option to utilise assets whether for a short term or long term. Usually such kind of renting agreements are being entered into by the organisations to reduce their capital expenditure. This helps them to reduce their cash outflow and there is usually flexibility to use such assets over a period of time lesser than the life of the asset. This theory fits true for all assets, be it a car or laptops and computers.

IT Resources Renting

Financially, renting is an ideal way to reduce your IT assets cost. The operating cash flows of the company could be saved on a greater extent if the organisation wishes to opt for rented IT resources than purchasing the assets.

IT resources that encompass laptops, computers, servers, tablets, apple products, SAP HANA servers, etc. If you purchase these products for your organisation, it will cost you the following-

  1. Cost of the IT asset
  2. Insurance charges
  3. Warranty charges
  4. Anti-virus softwarecharges
  5. Repairs and maintenanceof the IT asset during its life.

As against the abovementioned cost, taking the IT assets over rent would reduce to a bare minimum cost, that is the rental charges. That’s it, no other charges are to be paid. RAC IT Solutions have no hidden cost to provide you a shock at the later stage. RAC IT Solution has placed its values on the simple principles that the organization shall only focus on their core business and there should be no wastage of time in getting your IT resources developed.

Provides you additional cash flows

The basic principle of cash flows is “Any money unspent is equivalent to money received”. According to this principle, if we look at the renting model of IT resources, it is just a new world of opportunities.

An IT asset that you purchase would cost you a bomb, whereas the rental charge for the similar asset would be a reasonable amount that you may have to pay as per the agreed terms. The amount saved by not purchasing the asset is a kind of interest free loan which you could use it in your business and make profits from it.

This will have 2 basic implication-

  1. The organization will not have to borrow capital from outside, hence you save upon your finance cost or interest cost. This is a kind of indirect income for the organization adopting the rental IT resource model.
  2. The lesser you take loans, the better is your credit score which will help you to avail loans at a reduced rate of interest in future. And expansion of your business would come at a quicker pace than earlier projected.

Finance and renting

Renting charges is an operational cost and hence it entails place in the profit and loss account in the financial statements. Since it is a cost, your profit lowers and this helps you to save tax on your profits. The organization that does not purchase assets and opts for the renting of resources, helps them to avoid taking loans from the financial institutions. This makes the balance sheet look cleaner and it helps you to attain cheaper finance whenever you need money. Moreover, the cost of IT resources also reduces.

These benefits can actually change the cash budgets of an organization positively. And the company can focus on core business activities, now with additional cash in hand. If there would have been one such decision that would turn your organization into even more profitable organization, it would probably be the decision to opt for renting of IT resources than to purchase them.

 

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