Note 14 - Lease Obligations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Notes to Financial Statements

Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]

14. Lease Obligations

The Company is a lessee under certain operating leases for office space and equipment. 

ASC 842 requires lessees to recognize leases on the balance sheet as a lease liability with a corresponding right of use ("ROU") asset, subject to certain permitted accounting policy elections.

Under ASC 842, SPAR determines, at the inception of the contract, whether the contract is or contains a lease based on whether the contract provides SPAR the right to control the use of a physically distinct asset or substantially all of the capacity of an asset.

Many of SPAR's equipment leases are short-term or cancellable with notice. SPAR’s office space leases have remaining lease terms between one and approximately eleven years, many of which include one (1) or more options to extend the term for periods thereafter. Certain leases contain options to terminate the lease early, which may include a penalty for exercising the option. Many of the termination options require notice within a specified period, after which the option is no longer available to SPAR if not exercised. The extension options and termination options may be exercised at SPAR’s sole discretion. SPAR does not consider in the measurement of ROU assets and lease liabilities an option to extend or terminate a lease if SPAR is not reasonably certain to exercise the option. As of the end of this reporting period, SPAR has not included any options to extend or terminate in its measurement of ROU assets or lease liabilities.

Certain of SPAR’s leases include covenants that oblige SPAR, at its sole expense, to repair and maintain the leased asset periodically during the lease term. SPAR is not a party to any leases that contain residual value guarantees nor is SPAR a party to any leases that provide an option to purchase the underlying asset.

Many of SPAR's office space leases include fixed and variable payments. Variable payments relate to real estate taxes, insurance, operating expenses, and common area maintenance, which are usually billed at actual amounts incurred proportionate to SPAR's rented square feet of the building. Variable payments that do not depend on an index or rate are expensed by SPAR as they are incurred and are not included in the measurement of the lease liability.

Some of SPAR's leases contain both lease and non-lease components. Fixed and variable payments are allocated to each component relative to observable or estimated standalone prices. SPAR measures its variable lease costs as the portion of variable payments that are allocated to lease components.

SPAR measures its lease liability for each leased asset as the present value of lease payments, as defined in ASC 842, allocated to the lease component, discounted using an incremental borrowing rate specific to the underlying asset. SPAR's ROU assets are equal to the lease liability. SPAR estimates its incremental borrowing rate based on the interest rate SPAR would incur to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments on a collateralized basis over a similar term in a similar economic environment.

The components of SPAR's lease expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, which are included in the consolidated income statement, are as follows (in thousands):

		Year Ended		Year Ended
Lease Costs	Classification	December 31, 2021		December 31, 2020
Operating lease cost	Selling, General and Administrative Expense	$	1,013	$	3,002
Short-term lease cost	Selling, General and Administrative Expense		513		216
Variable costs	Selling, General and Administrative Expense		175		56
Total lease cost		$	1,701	$	3,274

Supplemental cash flow information related to SPAR’s leases for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 is as follows (in thousands):

	Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31, 2021		December 31, 2020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	1,543	$	3,232
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations
Operating leases	$	2,172	$	368

Leases	December 31, 2021			December 31, 2020
Assets:
Operating lease right-of-use assets		1,781			2,900
Liabilities:
Current portion of operating lease liabilities		1,019			1,398
Non-current portion of operating lease liabilities		762			1,502
Total operating lease liabilities		1,781			2,900
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)		4.92			2.95
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases		24.0	%		9.9	%

At December 31, 2021, SPAR had the following maturities of lease liabilities related to office space and equipment, all of which are under non-cancellable operating leases (in thousands):

For the Year Ended December 31,	Amount
2022		1,019
2023		384
2024		247
2025		392
2026		45
Thereafter		96
Total future operating lease liability		2,183
Less: amount representing interest		402
Present value of operating lease liabilities		1,781