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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

A discussion of our significant accounting policies and estimates is included in Legacy Amplify Form 10-K.

Reorganization Items, Net

The Company has incurred significant costs associated with the reorganization. Reorganization items, net, which are expensed as incurred, represent costs and income directly associated with the Chapter 11 proceedings since January 16, 2017, the petition date.

The following table summarizes the components of reorganization items, net included in the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Statements of Consolidated Operations (in thousands):

 

For the Three Months Ended

 

 

For the Nine Months Ended

 

 

September 30,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Professional fees

 

104

 

 

 

(14

)

 

 

(241

)

 

 

(638

)

Other

 

(137

)

 

 

(452

)

 

 

(443

)

 

 

(1,114

)

Reorganization items, net

$

(33

)

 

$

(466

)

 

$

(684

)

 

$

(1,752

)

Lease Recognition

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance regarding the accounting for leases. The FASB retained a dual model, requiring leases to be classified as either direct financing or operating leases. The classification will be based on criteria that are similar to the current lease accounting treatment. The Company is the lessee under various agreements for office space, compressors, equipment, vehicles and surface rentals (right of use assets) that are currently accounted for as operating leases.

The Company applied the revised lease rules for our interim and annual reporting periods starting January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach with a cumulative impact to retained earnings in that period, and including several optional practical expedients relating to leases commenced before the effective date. The practical expedients the Company adopted are: (1) the original correct assessment of a contract containing a lease will be accepted without further review on all existing or expired contracts; (2) the original lease classification as an operating lease will convert as an operating lease under the new guidance; (3) initial direct costs for any existing leases will not be reassessed; (4) existing land easements or right of use agreements will continue under current accounting policy and only new agreements will be evaluated in the future; and (5) short-term leases for twelve months or less will not be evaluated under the guidance.

See Note 12 for additional information regarding the adoption of the leases standard.

New Accounting Pronouncements

Financial Instruments — Credit Losses. In May 2019 the FASB issued an accounting standards update to provide entities with an option to irrevocably elect the fair value option applied on an instrument-by-instrument basis for certain financial assets upon the adoption. The fair value option election does not apply to held-to-maturity debt securities. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Company notes that the impact of this guidance will not be material to the Company’s financial statements and related disclosures.

Other accounting standards that have been issued by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows.