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Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no significant changes to the Company’s accounting policies since the Company filed its audited financial statements in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. For further information about the Company’s accounting policies, refer to the Company’s consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2018 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company are prepared by management on the accrual basis of accounting and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial information as contained in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”), and in conjunction with rules and regulations of the SEC. Certain information and footnote disclosures required for annual financial statements have been condensed or excluded pursuant to SEC rules and regulations. Accordingly, the unaudited consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. The unaudited consolidated financial statements include accounts and related adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, of a normal recurring nature and necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim period. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2019. These unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.
The consolidated financial statements of the Company include all accounts of the Company, the Operating Partnership, and its subsidiaries. Intercompany transactions are not shown on the consolidated statements. However, each property-owning entity is a wholly-owned subsidiary which is a special purpose entity ("SPE"), whose assets and credit are not available to satisfy the debts or obligations of any other entity, except to the extent required with respect to any co-borrower or guarantor under the same credit facility.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the unaudited consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the unaudited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.
Per Share Data
The Company reports earnings per share for the period as (1) basic earnings per share computed by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, and (2) diluted earnings per share computed by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, including common stock equivalents. As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, common stock equivalents included in dilutive earnings (loss) per share would have been anti-dilutive for common stockholders.
Segment Information
ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting financial and descriptive information about a public entity’s reportable segments. The Company evaluates all of the properties and interests therein as one reportable segment.
Reclassification of the prior year presentation of rental income and property expense recovery
As described below, rental income and property expense recovery related to the Company's operating leases for which the Company is the lessor qualified for the single component practical expedient and was classified as rental income in the Company's consolidated statements of operations. Prior to the adoption of the new lease accounting standard, the Company classified rental income and property expense recovery separately in the Company's consolidated statements of operations, in accordance with the guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2019. Upon adoption of the new lease accounting standard, the Company comparative statement of operations of prior year have been reclassified to conform to the new single component presentation of rental income and property expense recovery, classified within rental income in the Company's consolidated statements of operations.
The table below provides a reconciliation of the prior period presentation of the statement of operations line items that were reclassified in the Company's consolidated statement of operations to conform to the current period presentation, pursuant to the adoption of the new lease accounting standard and election of the single component practical expedient (in thousands):
 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Rental income (presentation prior to January 1, 2019)
$
22,010

Property expense recovery (presentation prior to January 1, 2019)
4,779

   Rental income (presentation effective January 1, 2019)
$
26,789


Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2016-02, Leases ("ASU No. 2016-02"). ASU No. 2016-02 amends the existing accounting standards for lease accounting, including requiring lessees to recognize most leases on their balance sheets and making targeted changes to lessor accounting. ASU No. 2016-02 will direct how the Company accounts for payments from the elements of leases that are generally fixed and determinable at the inception of the lease (“Fixed Lease Payments”) while ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) ("ASU No. 2014-09") will direct how the Company accounts for the non-lease components of lease contracts, primarily expense reimbursements (“Non-Lease Payments”) and the accounting for the disposition of real estate facilities. ASU No. 2016-02 was effective beginning in the first quarter of 2019. Early adoption of ASU No. 2016-02 as of its issuance is permitted.
ASU No. 2016-02 requires a modified retrospective transition approach for all leases existing at, or entered into after, the date of initial application, with an option to use certain transition relief. Based on the required adoption date of January 1, 2019, the modified retrospective method for ASU No. 2016-02 requires application of the standard to all leases that exist at, or commence after, January 1, 2017 (beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the 2019 financial statements), with a cumulative adjustment to the opening balance of accumulated earnings (deficit) on January 1, 2017, for the effect of applying the standard at the date of initial application, and restatement of the amounts presented prior to January 1, 2019.
The FASB has also issued an amendment to the standard that would provide an entity an optional transition method to initially account for the impact of the adoption of the standard with a cumulative adjustment to accumulated earnings (deficit) on January 1, 2019 (the effective date of ASU No. 2016-02), rather than January 1, 2017, which would eliminate the need to restate amounts presented prior to January 1, 2019. Under ASU No. 2016-02, an entity may elect a practical expedient package, which states that: (1) an entity need not reassess whether any expired or existing contracts are leases or contain leases; (2) an entity need not reassess the lease classification for any expired or existing leases; and (3) an entity need not reassess initial direct costs for any existing leases. These three practical expedients are available as a single election that must be elected as a package and must be consistently applied to all existing leases at the date of adoption. The Company elected to adopt the three practical expedients as a single election effective January 1, 2019.
In July 2018, the FASB approved an amendment to the ASU to allow lessors to elect, as a practical expedient, not to allocate the total consideration to lease and non-lease components based on their relative standalone selling prices. The single-lease component practical expedient allows lessors to elect a combined single-lease component presentation if (1) the timing and pattern of transfer of the lease component and the non-lease component(s) associated with it are the same, and (2) the lease component would be classified as an operating lease if it were accounted for separately. Non-lease components that do not meet the criteria of this practical expedient and combined components in which the non-lease component is the predominant component will be accounted for under the new revenue recognition ASU.
ASU No. 2016-02 had no impact on the Company's accounting for Fixed Lease Payments because the Company's accounting policy is consistent with the provisions of the standard. The Company elected to adopt the practical expedient mentioned above, which treats payments for expense reimbursements that qualify as Non-Lease Payments and meet the criteria above as single lease components. Under ASU No. 2016-02, reimbursements relating to property taxes and insurances are Fixed Lease Payments as the payments relate to the right to use the leased assets, while reimbursements relating to maintenance activities and common area expense are Non-Lease Payments and are accounted under ASU No. 2016-02, assuming the Non-Lease Payments meet the criteria above.
Additionally, the Company analyzed its current lease obligations under ASU No. 2016-02 where the Company is the lessee. Since there are no leases where the Company is the lessee, there was no impact on the consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2019.