Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements
Organization, Consolidation, Basis of Presentation, Business Description and Accounting Policies [Text Block]	Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Description of Operations and Principles of Consolidation Cutera, Inc. (“Cutera” or the “Company”) provides energy-based aesthetic systems for practitioners worldwide. The Company develops, manufactures, distributes and markets energy-based product platforms for use by physicians and other qualified practitioners, enabling them to offer safe and effective aesthetic treatments to their customers. The Company currently markets the following system platforms: enlighten, excel, Fraxis PRO, Juliet, Secret RF, truSculpt and xeo. Several of the Company’s systems offer multiple hand pieces and applications, providing customers the flexibility to upgrade their systems. The sales of (i) systems, system upgrades, and hand pieces (collectively “Systems” revenue); (ii) replacement hand pieces, Titan, truSculpt 3D,truSculpt* iD* and truSculpt flex cycle refills, as well as single use disposable tips applicable to Fraxis PRO, Juliet and Secret RF (“Consumables” revenue); (iii) the distribution of third party manufactured skincare products (“Skincare” revenue); and (iv) the leasing of equipment through a membership program; are collectively classified as “Products” revenue. In addition to Products revenue, the Company generates revenue from the sale of post-warranty service contracts, parts, detachable hand piece replacements (except for Titan, truSculpt 3D, truSculpt iD and truSculpt flex and service labor for the repair and maintenance of products that are out of warranty, all of which are collectively classified as “Service” revenue. The Company’s corporate headquarters and U.S. operations are located in Brisbane, California, where the Company conducts manufacturing, warehousing, research and development, regulatory, sales and marketing, service, and administrative activities. The Company also maintains regional distribution centers (“RDCs”) in selection locations across the U.S. These RDCs serve as forward warehousing for systems and service parts in various geographies. The Company markets, sells and services the Company’s products through direct sales and service employees in North America (including Canada), Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Sales and Services outside of these direct markets are made through a worldwide distributor network in over 40 countries. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated. Risks and Uncertainties The Company's future results of operations involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could affect the Company's future operating results and cause actual results to vary materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, rapid technological change, continued acceptance of the Company's products, stability of global financial markets, cybersecurity breaches and other disruptions that could compromise the Company’s information or results, management of international activities, competition from substitute products and larger companies, the Company’s ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals, government regulations and oversight, patent and other types of litigation, the Company’s ability to protect proprietary technology from counterfeit versions of the Company's products, strategic relationships and dependence on key individuals. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization, or WHO, announced a global health emergency because of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the risks to the international community as the virus spreads globally beyond its point of origin. In March 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak is negatively affecting the United States and global economies. As the COVID-19 outbreak continued to spread, governmental authorities ordered quarantines, shelter-in-place, and restrictions on the conduct of business operations related to the COVID-19 outbreak. In certain geographies, these measures remain in place on some level, and these measures and restrictions had, and continue to have, an impact on the Company's business. The COVID-19 impact, led the Company to implement cost control measures. The COVID-19 outbreak also impacted the Company’s results of operations during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The Company expects the COVID-19 outbreak to continue to affect its operations and those of third parties on which the Company relies, which could cause disruptions in the Company’s supply chain and contract manufacturing operations. Though the shelter-in-place orders were lifted or eased allowing certain businesses to open up, government authorities may order additional restrictions, quarantines or shelter-in-place. The Company has commenced limited manufacturing and currently has inventory on hand for the next 180-240 days to meet its forecasted demand, but the Company must be able to continue to have access to its supply chain to meet demand beyond that period. Beginning in the second half of its first quarter of 2020, and through the date of this report, the Company has experienced decreasing levels of customer demand for its products and the on-going procedures performed with the existing installed base that utilize procedure based consumable products. As a result of COVID-19, some of its customers have been required to shelter-in-place and cease operation of their practice. In other cases, as aesthetic practices reopened and resumed treating patients, practitioners were obligated to implement new safety procedures resulting in fewer patients treated. In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company took actions to reduce expenses, including discontinuing nonessential services and programs, instituting cost controls on travel and entertainment, implementing further cost-cutting measures and evaluating whether the workforce is able to execute additional efficiency improvements’. For example, the directors on the Company's board of directors agreed to a 25% reduction in their fees, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and its President and Chief Operating Officer had a 25% reduction in their salaries and other members of management had significant reductions in their salaries, which will remain in place until such time as the Company's business operations and economic conditions improve. The Company also instituted salary reductions for the remainder of its employees and initiated furloughs and subsequent reductions-in-force that initially affected approximately 42% of its workforce. Only 22% of the Company’s workforce was impacted as of the third quarter of 2020, as several previously furloughed positions ended and the employees have come back to work. In addition, to facilitate the conservation of cash, bonuses owed to management from the 2019 Management Bonus Program were paid mostly in equity (Note 8) rather than in cash during the second quarter of 2020. As a result of the events and impact surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company assessed whether any impairment of its goodwill or its long-lived assets had occurred, and has determined that no charges other than an impairment loss of $0.8 million on capitalized cloud computing costs related to the indefinite delay of the implementation of cloud-based enterprise resource planning software had occurred as of September 30, 2020. The Company’s assumptions about future conditions important to its assessment of potential impairment of its long-lived assets, and goodwill, including the impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic and other ongoing impacts to its business, are subject to uncertainty, and the Company will continue to monitor these conditions in future periods as new information becomes available, and will update its analyses accordingly. Unaudited Interim Financial Information In the opinion of the Company, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this report reflect all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair statement of its consolidated statements of financial position as of September 30, 2020 and 2019, its consolidated statements of results of operations, comprehensive loss, changes in equity, and cash flows for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019. The December 31, 2019 condensed consolidated balance sheet was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”). The results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year or any other interim period. Presentation of certain prior year balances have been updated to conform with current year presentation. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s previously filed audited financial statements and the related notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 16, 2020, and amended in a filing on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on April 14, 2020. Accounting Policies These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC applicable to interim financial statements. While these statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for fair presentation of the results of the interim period, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statement disclosures in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on March 16, 2020, and amended in a filing on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on April 14, 2020. The Company uses the same accounting policies in preparing quarterly and annual financial statements. Unless otherwise noted, amounts presented within the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements refer to the Company’s continuing operations. Note 1 provides information about the Company’s adoption of the new accounting standard for credit losses. Use of Estimates The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reported periods. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including those related to warranty obligations, sales commission, allowance for credit losses, and sales allowances, valuation of inventories, fair value of goodwill, useful lives of property and equipment, impairment testing for long-lived-assets, incremental borrowing rates related to the Company’s leases, assumptions regarding variables used in calculating the fair value of the Company's equity awards, expected achievement of performance based vesting criteria, management performance bonuses, fair value of investments, the standalone selling price of the Company's products and services, the period of benefit used to capitalize and amortize contract acquisition costs, variable consideration, contingent liabilities, recoverability of deferred tax assets, residual value of leased equipment, useful life, lease term and effective income tax rates. Management bases estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Accounting for Leases as a Lessor In the second quarter of 2020, the Company began leasing equipment to customers through a membership program where the customer pays a fixed monthly fee over the lease term. Along with the leased equipment, the membership program provides customers with a warranty service and a fixed amount of consumables per month for the term of the lease. The Company has made an accounting policy election to account for qualifying lease components and associated non-lease components as a single component; accordingly, a lease component and an associated warranty service non-lease component are combined and accounted for as an operating lease. The consumables do not qualify for the practical expedient and are accounted for as a separate non-lease component in accordance with Topic 606 on Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The Company allocates the membership program contract consideration to each component proportionately on a relative standalone selling price basis. The lease agreements are typically for three years; however, the customer has the ability to terminate the lease after twelve months with no penalty. As such, the Company has determined the initial term of the lease to be twelve-months, after which the lease converts to a month-to-month lease for up to an additional two years. Rental charges are a fixed monthly fee, paid at the beginning of each month, over the term of the lease. All leases entered into to date under the membership program are classified as operating leases. The underlying asset in an operating lease arrangement is carried at depreciated cost within property and equipment, net, on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the useful life of the leased asset and is recognized as cost of product revenue. The depreciable basis is the original cost of the equipment less the estimated residual value of the equipment at the end of the lease term. The Company recognizes operating lease revenue on a straight-line basis over the lease term and expenses deferred initial direct costs on the same basis. Operating lease revenue is included within product revenue on the consolidated statements of operations. Impairment of equipment under operating leases is assessed on the same basis as other long-lived assets. See Note 11 of the Notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements for more information regarding leasing arrangements. Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326):"Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments", which replaces the incurred loss methodology with an expected credit loss methodology that is referred to as the current expected credit loss (CECL) methodology. ASU 2016-13 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this update are required to be applied using the modified retrospective method with an adjustment to accumulated deficit and are effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2020, including interim periods. The measurement of expected credit losses under the CECL methodology is applicable to financial assets measured at amortized cost, including loan receivables, available for sale securities and held-to-maturity debt securities. An entity with available for sale securities and trade receivables will be required to use historical loss information, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts to determine expected lifetime credit losses. Pooling of assets with similar risk characteristics is also required. The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 on January 1, 2020 on a modified retrospective basis. Upon adoption, the standard did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements. The Company identified trade receivables and available-for-sale debt securities as impacted by the new guidance. However, the Company determined that the historical losses related to these available-for-sale debt securities are not material as the Company invests in high grade short-term securities. The Company establishes an allowance for credit losses on trade receivables based on the credit quality of clients, current economic conditions, the age of the accounts receivable balances, historical loss information, and current conditions and forecasted information, and write-off amounts against the allowance when they are deemed uncollectible. The Company’s allowance for credit losses increased from $1.4 million at December 31, 2019 to $1.5 million at September 30, 2020, due to increase in aged accounts receivable. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized a provision for credit losses of $53,000 and $1.8 million, respectively, and wrote off $0.3 million and $1.5 million against the allowance for credit losses, respectively. In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework- Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement”, to improve the fair value measurement reporting of financial instruments. The amendments in this update require, among other things, added disclosure of the range and weighted average of significant unobservable inputs used to develop Level 3 fair value measurements. The amendments in this update eliminate, among other things, disclosure of the reasons for and amounts of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis and an entity's valuation processes for Level 3 fair value measurements. The amendments in this update are effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2020, with early adoption permitted. Retrospective application is required for all amendments in this update except the added disclosures, which should be applied prospectively. The adoption of the amendments in this update did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations. *Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not* Yet Adopted by the Company** In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12 “Income Taxes (Topic 740)-Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes”, to remove certain exceptions and improve consistency of application, including, among other things, requiring that an entity reflect the effect of an enacted change in tax laws or rates in the annual effective tax rate computation in the interim period that includes the enactment date. The amendments in this update will be effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2021, with early adoption permitted. Most amendments within the standard are required to be applied on a prospective basis, while certain amendments must be applied on a retrospective or modified retrospective basis. The adoption of the amendments in this update is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations. In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting.” ASU No. 2020-04 provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S. GAAP to contract modifications and hedging relationships, subject to meeting certain criteria that reference LIBOR or another rate that is expected to be discontinued. The amendments in ASU No. 2020-04 are effective for all entities as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. The Company is currently assessing the impact of ASU No. 2020-04 and the LIBOR transition on its consolidated financial statements. The Company reviewed all other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and does not expect the future adoption of any such pronouncements will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Organization, Consolidation, Basis of Presentation, Business Description and Accounting Policies [Text Block]

Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Description of Operations and Principles of Consolidation

Cutera, Inc. (“Cutera” or the “Company”) provides energy-based aesthetic systems for practitioners worldwide. The Company develops, manufactures, distributes and markets energy-based product platforms for use by physicians and other qualified practitioners, enabling them to offer safe and effective aesthetic treatments to their customers. The Company currently markets the following system platforms: enlighten, excel, Fraxis PRO, Juliet, Secret RF, truSculpt and xeo. Several of the Company’s systems offer multiple hand pieces and applications, providing customers the flexibility to upgrade their systems. The sales of (i) systems, system upgrades, and hand pieces (collectively “Systems” revenue); (ii) replacement hand pieces, Titan, truSculpt 3D,truSculpt iD and truSculpt flex cycle refills, as well as single use disposable tips applicable to Fraxis PRO, Juliet and Secret RF (“Consumables” revenue); (iii) the distribution of third party manufactured skincare products (“Skincare” revenue); and (iv) the leasing of equipment through a membership program; are collectively classified as “Products” revenue. In addition to Products revenue, the Company generates revenue from the sale of post-warranty service contracts, parts, detachable hand piece replacements (except for Titan, truSculpt 3D, truSculpt iD and truSculpt flex and service labor for the repair and maintenance of products that are out of warranty, all of which are collectively classified as “Service” revenue.

The Company’s corporate headquarters and U.S. operations are located in Brisbane, California, where the Company conducts manufacturing, warehousing, research and development, regulatory, sales and marketing, service, and administrative activities. The Company also maintains regional distribution centers (“RDCs”) in selection locations across the U.S. These RDCs serve as forward warehousing for systems and service parts in various geographies. The Company markets, sells and services the Company’s products through direct sales and service employees in North America (including Canada), Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Sales and Services outside of these direct markets are made through a worldwide distributor network in over 40 countries. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated.

Risks and Uncertainties

The Company's future results of operations involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could affect the Company's future operating results and cause actual results to vary materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, rapid technological change, continued acceptance of the Company's products, stability of global financial markets, cybersecurity breaches and other disruptions that could compromise the Company’s information or results, management of international activities, competition from substitute products and larger companies, the Company’s ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals, government regulations and oversight, patent and other types of litigation, the Company’s ability to protect proprietary technology from counterfeit versions of the Company's products, strategic relationships and dependence on key individuals.

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization, or WHO, announced a global health emergency because of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the risks to the international community as the virus spreads globally beyond its point of origin.

In March 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak is negatively affecting the United States and global economies. As the COVID-19 outbreak continued to spread, governmental authorities ordered quarantines, shelter-in-place, and restrictions on the conduct of business operations related to the COVID-19 outbreak. In certain geographies, these measures remain in place on some level, and these measures and restrictions had, and continue to have, an impact on the Company's business. The COVID-19 impact, led the Company to implement cost control measures. The COVID-19 outbreak also impacted the Company’s results of operations during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The Company expects the COVID-19 outbreak to continue to affect its operations and those of third parties on which the Company relies, which could cause disruptions in the Company’s supply chain and contract manufacturing operations. Though the shelter-in-place orders were lifted or eased allowing certain businesses to open up, government authorities may order additional restrictions, quarantines or shelter-in-place. The Company has commenced limited manufacturing and currently has inventory on hand for the next 180-240 days to meet its forecasted demand, but the Company must be able to continue to have access to its supply chain to meet demand beyond that period.

Beginning in the second half of its first quarter of 2020, and through the date of this report, the Company has experienced decreasing levels of customer demand for its products and the on-going procedures performed with the existing installed base that utilize procedure based consumable products. As a result of COVID-19, some of its customers have been required to shelter-in-place and cease operation of their practice. In other cases, as aesthetic practices reopened and resumed treating patients, practitioners were obligated to implement new safety procedures resulting in fewer patients treated.

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company took actions to reduce expenses, including discontinuing nonessential services and programs, instituting cost controls on travel and entertainment, implementing further cost-cutting measures and evaluating whether the workforce is able to execute additional efficiency improvements’. For example, the directors on the Company's board of directors agreed to a 25% reduction in their fees, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and its President and Chief Operating Officer had a 25% reduction in their salaries and other members of management had significant reductions in their salaries, which will remain in place until such time as the Company's business operations and economic conditions improve. The Company also instituted salary reductions for the remainder of its employees and initiated furloughs and subsequent reductions-in-force that initially affected approximately 42% of its workforce. Only 22% of the Company’s workforce was impacted as of the third quarter of 2020, as several previously furloughed positions ended and the employees have come back to work.

In addition, to facilitate the conservation of cash, bonuses owed to management from the 2019 Management Bonus Program were paid mostly in equity (Note 8) rather than in cash during the second quarter of 2020.

As a result of the events and impact surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company assessed whether any impairment of its goodwill or its long-lived assets had occurred, and has determined that no charges other than an impairment loss of $0.8 million on capitalized cloud computing costs related to the indefinite delay of the implementation of cloud-based enterprise resource planning software had occurred as of September 30, 2020. The Company’s assumptions about future conditions important to its assessment of potential impairment of its long-lived assets, and goodwill, including the impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic and other ongoing impacts to its business, are subject to uncertainty, and the Company will continue to monitor these conditions in future periods as new information becomes available, and will update its analyses accordingly.

Unaudited Interim Financial Information

In the opinion of the Company, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this report reflect all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair statement of its consolidated statements of financial position as of September 30, 2020 and 2019, its consolidated statements of results of operations, comprehensive loss, changes in equity, and cash flows for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019. The December 31, 2019 condensed consolidated balance sheet was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”). The results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year or any other interim period. Presentation of certain prior year balances have been updated to conform with current year presentation. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s previously filed audited financial statements and the related notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 16, 2020, and amended in a filing on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on April 14, 2020.

Accounting Policies

These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC applicable to interim financial statements. While these statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for fair presentation of the results of the interim period, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statement disclosures in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on March 16, 2020, and amended in a filing on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on April 14, 2020.

The Company uses the same accounting policies in preparing quarterly and annual financial statements. Unless otherwise noted, amounts presented within the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements refer to the Company’s continuing operations. Note 1 provides information about the Company’s adoption of the new accounting standard for credit losses.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reported periods. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including those related to warranty obligations, sales commission, allowance for credit losses, and sales allowances, valuation of inventories, fair value of goodwill, useful lives of property and equipment, impairment testing for long-lived-assets, incremental borrowing rates related to the Company’s leases, assumptions regarding variables used in calculating the fair value of the Company's equity awards, expected achievement of performance based vesting criteria, management performance bonuses, fair value of investments, the standalone selling price of the Company's products and services, the period of benefit used to capitalize and amortize contract acquisition costs, variable consideration, contingent liabilities, recoverability of deferred tax assets, residual value of leased equipment, useful life, lease term and effective income tax rates. Management bases estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities.

Accounting for Leases as a Lessor

In the second quarter of 2020, the Company began leasing equipment to customers through a membership program where the customer pays a fixed monthly fee over the lease term. Along with the leased equipment, the membership program provides customers with a warranty service and a fixed amount of consumables per month for the term of the lease. The Company has made an accounting policy election to account for qualifying lease components and associated non-lease components as a single component; accordingly, a lease component and an associated warranty service non-lease component are combined and accounted for as an operating lease. The consumables do not qualify for the practical expedient and are accounted for as a separate non-lease component in accordance with Topic 606 on Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The Company allocates the membership program contract consideration to each component proportionately on a relative standalone selling price basis.

The lease agreements are typically for three years; however, the customer has the ability to terminate the lease after twelve months with no penalty. As such, the Company has determined the initial term of the lease to be twelve-months, after which the lease converts to a month-to-month lease for up to an additional two years. Rental charges are a fixed monthly fee, paid at the beginning of each month, over the term of the lease.

All leases entered into to date under the membership program are classified as operating leases. The underlying asset in an operating lease arrangement is carried at depreciated cost within property and equipment, net, on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the useful life of the leased asset and is recognized as cost of product revenue. The depreciable basis is the original cost of the equipment less the estimated residual value of the equipment at the end of the lease term.

The Company recognizes operating lease revenue on a straight-line basis over the lease term and expenses deferred initial direct costs on the same basis. Operating lease revenue is included within product revenue on the consolidated statements of operations. Impairment of equipment under operating leases is assessed on the same basis as other long-lived assets.

See Note 11 of the Notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements for more information regarding leasing arrangements.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326):"Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments", which replaces the incurred loss methodology with an expected credit loss methodology that is referred to as the current expected credit loss (CECL) methodology. ASU 2016-13 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this update are required to be applied using the modified retrospective method with an adjustment to accumulated deficit and are effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2020, including interim periods. The measurement of expected credit losses under the CECL methodology is applicable to financial assets measured at amortized cost, including loan receivables, available for sale securities and held-to-maturity debt securities. An entity with available for sale securities and trade receivables will be required to use historical loss information, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts to determine expected lifetime credit losses. Pooling of assets with similar risk characteristics is also required. The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 on January 1, 2020 on a modified retrospective basis. Upon adoption, the standard did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.

The Company identified trade receivables and available-for-sale debt securities as impacted by the new guidance. However, the Company determined that the historical losses related to these available-for-sale debt securities are not material as the Company invests in high grade short-term securities.

The Company establishes an allowance for credit losses on trade receivables based on the credit quality of clients, current economic conditions, the age of the accounts receivable balances, historical loss information, and current conditions and forecasted information, and write-off amounts against the allowance when they are deemed uncollectible.

The Company’s allowance for credit losses increased from $1.4 million at December 31, 2019 to $1.5 million at September 30, 2020, due to increase in aged accounts receivable. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized a provision for credit losses of $53,000 and $1.8 million, respectively, and wrote off $0.3 million and $1.5 million against the allowance for credit losses, respectively.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework- Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement”, to improve the fair value measurement reporting of financial instruments. The amendments in this update require, among other things, added disclosure of the range and weighted average of significant unobservable inputs used to develop Level 3 fair value measurements. The amendments in this update eliminate, among other things, disclosure of the reasons for and amounts of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis and an entity's valuation processes for Level 3 fair value measurements. The amendments in this update are effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2020, with early adoption permitted. Retrospective application is required for all amendments in this update except the added disclosures, which should be applied prospectively. The adoption of the amendments in this update did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted by the Company

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12 “Income Taxes (Topic 740)-Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes”, to remove certain exceptions and improve consistency of application, including, among other things, requiring that an entity reflect the effect of an enacted change in tax laws or rates in the annual effective tax rate computation in the interim period that includes the enactment date. The amendments in this update will be effective for the Company beginning with fiscal year 2021, with early adoption permitted. Most amendments within the standard are required to be applied on a prospective basis, while certain amendments must be applied on a retrospective or modified retrospective basis. The adoption of the amendments in this update is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations.

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting.” ASU No. 2020-04 provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S. GAAP to contract modifications and hedging relationships, subject to meeting certain criteria that reference LIBOR or another rate that is expected to be discontinued. The amendments in ASU No. 2020-04 are effective for all entities as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. The Company is currently assessing the impact of ASU No. 2020-04 and the LIBOR transition on its consolidated financial statements.

The Company reviewed all other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and does not expect the future adoption of any such pronouncements will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.