Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Leases [Abstract]

Leases

9. Leases

Adoption of ASC Topic 842, Leases

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted Topic 842 using the modified retrospective method applied to leases that were in place as of January 1, 2019. Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2019 are presented under Topic 842, while prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with our historic accounting under Topic 840. The Company's leases consists of operating leases that relate to real estate rental agreements. All of the value of the Company's lease portfolio relates to a real estate lease agreement that was entered into in May 2018.

Practical Expedients and Elections

The Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance, which allowed us to carryforward our historical lease classification, our assessment on whether a contract is or contains a lease, and our initial direct costs for any leases that exist prior to adoption of the new standard. We also elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify.

Discount Rate applied to property operating lease

To determine the present value of minimum future lease payments for operating leases at January 1, 2019, the Company was required to estimate a rate of interest that we would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment (the "incremental borrowing rate" or "IBR").

The Company determined the appropriate IBR by identifying a reference rate and making adjustments that take into consideration financing options and certain lease-specific circumstances. For the reference rate, the Company used the average of (i) the risk free interest rate adjusted for a premium for Company and liquidity risk; (ii) the weighted average mortgage interest rate currently availed to the Company; and (iii) the fifteen year mortgage interest rate. The weighted average rate the Company determined was 4.76% as an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to apply to its real-estate operating lease.

Subsequent to year end, on January 30, 2020, the Company verbally terminated the lease with the current landlord who had leased the premises to a third party and subsequently sold the property. The operating lease liability and right-of-use asset has been eliminated as of December 31, 2019.

Total operating lease cost

Individual components of the total lease cost incurred by the Company is as follows:

	Year ended December 31, 2019
Operating lease expense	$	1,360,117