Don’t miss the discussion between Andrew Zezas of SIOR NJ and Marc Betesh of KBA Lease Services. Together they outline the upcoming changes to lease accounting under GAAP and their potential impact on commercial real estate, developers and occupants.

Marc Betesh, President and founder of Visual Lease and KBA Lease Services, will be speaking about FASB’s upcoming lease accounting changes at the NRTA Annual Conference on Septermber 12th, 2011. Marc’s presentation “FASB: The Conceptual Background & the Effects On Future Lease Negotiations,” will help retailers address tremendous concern across the real estate industry.

Realtor magazine, the official magazine of the National Association of Realtors, talks FASB with Marc Betesh.

In the article, titled The Facts On FASB, Realtor Magazine’s Mariwyn Evans questions FASB’s proposed changes to lease accounting rules.

Duke Long interviews Marc Betesh, President and CEO of Visual Lease, about upcoming FASB changes at Corenet’s Chicago conference.

Tomorrow’s webinar will explore the underlying theory behind the proposed FASB changes.  IFMA, a professional association for facility management professionals,  and Visual Lease’s President, Marc Betesh, will outline the potential ramifications and offer advice as to best prepare for the impact.
Topics Include:

Why the Changes Were Proposed
What Will Change
Impact on Lease vs. Buy Decisions
Treatment of Gross vs. Net Leases
The Most Current Updates/Deliberations/Alterations Made to the Original Exposure Draft
How to Start Preparing Now

Background:
Last August, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) sent shockwaves through the commercial real estate world when they proposed significant changes …

The Chicago Summit has kicked off with a great turnout, learning opportunities and networking.  Marc Betesh and Chris Werely sat down with Duke Long today to talk real estate technology and the upcoming lease accounting changes.

Check in at www.dukelong.com for the full video.

Marc Betesh and Chris Werely are headed to Chicago this weekend for the CoreNet Global Summit. If you are headed to the summit, say hello. If not, stay tuned to the Visual Lease blog for daily updates on the topics of conversation, speakers and other real estate buzz. We are very interested to learn how end users are preparing for the FASB‘s changes to lease accounting.
We are expecting to see more people using iPad’s and contributing to the social media updates coming out of CoreNet. We will definitey …

We recently had the opportunity to chat with Duke Long and Jason Sandquist from CREpodcast about the proposed FASB/IASB lease accounting changes and how all parties can prepare.
Marc and Chris drop some serious information on what could be a coming storm if businesses, tenants and commercial brokers are not prepared. We discussed the impact on the industry as a whole – as well as what the affects will be for both tenants and landlords in regards to how they handle lease accounting. They also fill …

Visual Lease’s management team, along with Grant Thornton recently hosted a webinar to address the impact on corporate real estate under the FASB/IASB’s proposed lease accounting changes.
The presenters include some of the country’s top real estate lease experts, Marc Betesh and Lou Ferro, as well as Gary Illiano, National Partner at the CPA firm Grant Thornton.
If you were not one of the hundreds who attended, and would like to watch the replay and download the slides, it is now available. Please click here or on the image below.

Marc Betesh, President and founder of Visual Lease and KBA Lease Services, is scheduled to speak about the FASB’s upcoming lease accounting changes at the New Jersey chapter of SIOR on February 2nd, 2011.