LEASES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Leases

LEASES

NOTE 14 –LEASES

The Company accounts for its leases under Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) Topic 842, Leases. The Company determines at its inception whether an arrangement that provides us control over the use of an asset is a lease. We recognize at lease commencement a right-of-use (ROU) asset and lease liability based on the present value of the future lease payments over the lease term. We have elected not to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability for leases with terms of 12 months or less. Our current long-term leases include an option to extend the term of the lease prior to the end of the initial term. It is not reasonably certain that we will exercise the option and have not included the impact of the option in the lease term for purposes of determining total future lease payments. As our lease agreement does not explicitly state the discount rate implicit in the lease, we use our promissory note borrowing rate to calculate the present value of future payments.

In addition to the base rent, real estate leases typically contain provisions for common-area maintenance and other similar services, which are considered non-lease components for accounting purposes. For our real estate leases, we apply a practical expedient to include these non-lease components in calculating the ROU asset and lease liability. For all other types of leases, non-lease components are excluded from our ROU assets and lease liabilities and expensed as incurred.

We have operating leases for office facilities. We do not have any finance leases.

Lease expense is included in General & Administrative Expenses on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. The components of lease expense were as follows (in thousands):

	Years ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Operating lease cost	$	182	$	85
Short-term lease cost		28		18
Total lease costs	$	210	$	103

Supplemental information related to leases was as follows (dollars in thousands):

	December 31, 2023			December 31, 2022
Operating Lease right-of-use asset	$	468		$	469
Current portion of operating lease liabilities		170			115
Non-current portion of operating lease liabilities		307			359
Total operating lease liabilities	$	477		$	474
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	$	177		$	80
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities	$	-		$	552
Weighted-average remaining lease term for operating leases (years)		3.0			4.3
Weighted average discount rate for operating leases		6.4	%		6.0	%

The following is a reconciliation of future undiscounted cash flows to the operating lease liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 (in thousands):

Year ended December 31,
2024	$	191
2025		195
2026		139
2027		45
Thereafter		-
Total future lease payments		570
Less: imputed interest		(93	)
Present value of future lease payments		477
Less: current portion of lease liabilities		(170	)
Long-term lease liabilities	$	307