Support for H1 would demonstrate that using the proposed approach to address concerns about transaction structuring creates an unintended information effect—namely, that firms will have a more difficult time borrowing money from creditors and lenders. This trade-off arises, in part, because the proposed accounting method is not representationally faithful. In our opinion, the obligation to pay rentals in an optional period fails to meet the definition of a liability and so would be reminiscent of the ‘‘what-you-may-call-its ’’ identified by Sprouse (1966) in some pre-FASB standards. We believe that options associated with a lease are more likely to meet the definition of an asset and that the conceptually correct approach would be to adopt a components approach that distinguishes the options from the underlying lease. Such an approach, which would break the lease arrangement up into various smaller units of account, is, however, viewed by the boards as not pragmatic because of the various valuation issues associated with valuing lease options (Joint IASB/FASB Meeting 2009).