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Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
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3. Significant Accounting Policies

 

These interim condensed consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 and their accompanying notes.

 

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements:

 

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2016-02, Leases which is also known as Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") Topic 842, that requires lessees to recognize for all operating leases a right-of-use asset and a lease obligation in the interim condensed consolidated balance sheets. Expenses are recognized in the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss in a manner similar to previous accounting guidance. Lessor accounting under the new standard is substantially unchanged and is not relevant to the Company. The Company adopted the accounting standard using a prospective transition approach, which applies the provisions of the new guidance at the effective date without adjusting the comparative periods presented, with certain practical expedients available to ease the burden of adoption.

 

The Company elected the following practical expedients upon adoption: not to reassess whether any expired or existing contracts are or contain leases, not to reassess the lease classification for any expired or existing leases, not to reassess initial direct costs for any existing leases, not to separately identify lease and non-lease components (i.e. maintenance costs) except for fleet vehicles and real estate, and not to evaluate historical land easements under the new guidance. Additionally, the Company elected the short-term lease exemption policy, applying the requirements of ASC 842 to long-term leases (leases greater than 1 year) for which it only has one.

 

Adoption of the new standard resulted in $217,755 ($297,074 CAD) of additional right-of-use lease asset and lease liability as of January 1, 2019. The new standard did not have a significant impact on the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. See note 9, operating lease right-of-use asset and operating lease liability, for additional information.