Recently Adopted and Issued Accounting Pronouncements

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]

Recently Adopted and Issued Accounting Pronouncements

NOTE 3 – RECENTLY ADOPTED AND ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

a. Newly issued accounting pronouncements

1)	In February 2016, the FASB established ASC Topic 842, Leases (Topic 842), by issuing ASU No. 2016-02, which requires lessees to recognize leases on-balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (ROU) model that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet. Leases will be classified as finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern and classification of expense recognition in the statement of operations. We adopted the new standard on January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method and we did not restate comparative periods. The new standard provides a number of optional practical expedients in transition. We have elected the ‘package of practical expedients’, which permit it not to reassess under the new standard its prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs for leases entered into prior to adoption of Topic 842.
	Additionally, we did not separate lease and non-lease components for all of our leases. The Company elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. This means, for those leases that qualify, the Company will not recognize ROU assets or lease liabilities, and this includes not recognizing ROU assets or lease liabilities for existing short-term leases of those assets in transition. Instead, we will continue to recognize the lease payments for those leases in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
	The new standard had a material effect on the Company’s financial statements. The most significant effects of adoption relate to (1) the recognition of new ROU assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet for real estate operating leases; and (2) providing significant new disclosures about its leasing activities.
	Upon adoption, we recognized additional operating lease liabilities, of approximately $1.2 million based on the present value of the remaining lease payments under current leasing standards for existing operating leases. The Company also recognized corresponding ROU assets of approximately $1.2 million. Lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when the Company is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised. Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Our leases may include variable payments based on measures that include changes in price index which are expensed as incurred and presented as operating expense on the condensed consolidated statements of operations in the same line item as expense arising from fixed lease payments.
	The new standard also provides practical expedients for an entity’s ongoing accounting. Beginning in 2019, the Company changed to its disclosed lease recognition policies and practices, as well as to other related financial statement disclosures due to the adoption of this standard. See Note 9.