BDO Lead - Direct SaaS user licence

A SaaS solution for lease management

BDO Lead gives you control over your lease data and the ability to process changes and prepare reports effectively and efficiently across all your leases. The platform has been developed by our IFRS experts and custom-built by our IT experts. BDO Lead is a cloud solution hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Using BDO Lead gives you control of your own data and access to our highly experienced NZ IFRS experts to talk you through the relevant considerations when performing your lease calculations.

Each user is unique in their needs and technical requirements, so pricing is determined after a complimentary consultation with our NZ IFRS specialists to understand your needs.


What is BDO Lead

One tool to manage all of your leases

BDO Lead simplifies the process of transferring existing data - along with additional parameters necessary for NZ IFRS 16 accounting - into a single database. BDO Lead allows you to:

  • Perform NZ IFRS 16 calculations on thousands of leases using an easy software solution. 
  • Recognise the transitional effects and ongoing impacts on journals and disclosure requirements .
  • Import existing or new lease contract data through a user-friendly interface .
  • Guide users through the complexity of the standard and providing the final journal information for existing and new lease contracts .
  • Ensure retrieval of data input history at any time, in contrast to spreadsheet programs.
  • Download lease reports directly to your device.
  • NZ IFRS 16 experts available for onboarding lease data and ongoing support as needed. 


BDO Lead software solution

Examples of leases BDO Lead can manage

Vehicle fleet

Vehicle fleets

Vehicle fleets may include:

  • Work trucks
  • Utes
  • Boat fleets

Retail store

Buildings & other locations

Buildings and other locations may include:

  • Retail locations within shopping centres or malls
  • Office locations, either street-side or within a building
  • Investment properties


Industrial machinery

Machinery & equipment

Machinery and equipment may include:

  • Industrial machinery
  • Computers and IT equipment
  • Forklifts and other vehicles.


The benefits of using BDO Lead

Risk free

  • Safe storage and contract maintenance
  • Direct and clear processes to identify and address issues
  • Audit trail of changes in the system
  • Increase in transparency
  • User access can be personalised

Ongoing lease management

  • Opportunity to entirely restructure your lease accounting and lease management
  • BDO Lead is an intuitive and user-friendly tool
  • IFRS 16 expert support
  • Unlimited users
  • Multi-currency conversions and reporting

Tailored to your business' unique needs

  • Your accounting engine does not need to be adapted
  • BDO can advise on project design and contract evaluation and guide you through the process
  • Tailored to suit your needs e.g. select (modules) functions you need
  • BDO can help you with the upload of existing leases from other software systems

Created by IFRS experts

  • Created by experts in the technical and financial reporting
  • Trust and comfort that you have expert IFRS advisers available to assist with lease accounting questions

Reduce time and cost

  • Business resources are free for alternative use e.g. to meet key business objectives
  • Ensures the efficient, accurate and timely implementation of IFRS 16 which meets the highest quality standards

Easy and efficient

  • Ongoing management of leases is transparent and easier to manage - significantly increasing the efficiency of lease accounting
  • Calculate the interest expense, depreciation and the right-of-use asset and lease liability for the period
  • Take care of the presentation in the financial statements

Contact us

Please contact any of our friendly and professional Financial Reporting experts to discuss how we can help you take the pain out of lease accounting and address your NZ IFRS 16-related business problems. Explore further information about utilising our outsourced managed lease service.

Meet our team

James Lindsay

James Lindsay

Partner, Head of Financial Reporting Advisory
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