Incremental Borrowing Rate Template

Methodology

For more information on our methodology, check out DebtBook's Guide to the Incremental Borrowing Rate.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 UPDATE:

As we continue to work through the initial implementation of GASB 87, we’re constantly reevaluating our application and our supporting tools to make sure we’re providing the best possible service to your team.

To that end, we’re excited to release an update to our IBR template, which will make it easier for our team to incorporate accurate, up-to-date market data into your rate calculations. Our new methodology takes a snapshot of multiple, publicly-available data points from across the municipal bond market to generate a consensus view of municipal bond yields and spreads on a quarterly basis. This approach will allow your team to generate an incremental borrowing rate for your lease obligations using actual market data that’s never more than 90 days old.

Please know that we are shifting our approach to the IBR template so that it is simpler for your team to use and understand and easier for our team to update going forward. We are not changing our methodology because of any issues or concerns with the prior template — if your team has already calculated an incremental borrowing rate for your lease obligations using the prior version of our IBR template, there is no need to update those calculations.

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