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In a lease agreement, the owner of the assets is 'lessor' and the party that uses the asset is known as 'lessee'. The lessee pays a fixed periodic amount known as the lease rent to the lessor for the use of the assets.

Lease financing in other words is renting of an asset for some specific period. The lessee pays a fixed periodic amount called lease rental to the lessor for the use of the asset. Therefore simple documentation makes it easier to finance assets and is a merit of lease financing.

In a lease agreement, the owner of the assets is 'lessor' and the party that uses the asset is known as 'lessee'. The lessee pays a fixed periodic amount known as the lease rent to the lessor for the use of the assets. The lessee never becomes the owner of the assets, it is deprived from the residual value of the asset.

Lease financing is a contractual agreement where by  the owner of the assets is 'lessor' that provides the grant to  the party to use the assets, who is known as 'lessee'. The lessee pays a fixed periodic amount known as the lease rent to the lessor for the use of the assets.

Few merits of lease financing are: It enables the lessee to acquire the assets with low investment, the risk of obsolescence is borne by the lessor, the lease agreement does not affect the debt raising capacity of an enterprise.

Public deposits obtained by a company means the deposits received by the company from public at large. Public deposits are unsecured, long term debt instrument. They have a slightly higher rate of interest when compared to that of interest rates of banks. They are usually issued to meet the working capital needs of the company.

(i) A company collects the required amount of capital through different sources.
(ii) The small part of the capital is raised through borrowing
(iii) The greater part of the capital is raised by the company through the issue of shares.
(iv) The short term capital is raised by the  company accepting deposits from the general public.
(v) The deposit accepted  by the company
from the  general public are called public deposit.
(vi) A company accepts deposit for a minimum period of 6 months and for a maximum period of 3 years.
(vii) Because of the above reason, the amount of deposit is a short term source of capital.

 Public deposits refers to the unsecured securities which is invited from the public. It is mainly used to finance the working capital of the company. Limitations of public deposit are:a) New companies generally find it difficult to raise funds through public b) It is an unreliable source of finance.deposits.c) Collection of public deposits may prove difficult when the size of deposits required is large.

Public deposits refer to the unsecured deposits invited by companies from the public mainly to finance working capital needs- this is a true statement.  Public deposits do not usually create any charge on the assets of the company.