LEASING ARRANGEMENTS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Leases [Abstract]

LEASING ARRANGEMENTS

NOTE 9 – LEASING ARRANGEMENTS

As part of the adoption of ASU 2016-02, the Company elected the “package of expedients”, which permits the Company not to reassess under the new standard the Company’s prior conclusions about lease identification and initial direct costs. The Company did not elect the use-of hindsight or the practical expedient pertaining to land easements, the latter not being applicable to the Company. The Company has lease arrangements which are classified as short-term in nature. The Company has elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. This means, for those leases that qualify, the Company will not recognize Right of Use ("ROU") assets or lease liabilities.

The Company determines whether an arrangement is a lease at inception. The Company has operating leases for office space and office equipment. The Company’s leases have remaining lease terms of one year to seven years, some of which include options to extend the lease term for up to five years. The Company considered these options to extend in determining the lease term used to establish the Company’s right-of use assets and lease liabilities once reasonably certain of exercise. The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

ROU assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of the future lease payments over the lease term. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease payments made in advance of lease commencement and excludes lease incentives. The lease terms used in the calculations of the operating ROU assets and operating lease liabilities include options to extend or terminate the lease when the Company is reasonably certain that it will exercise those options. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

As the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses an incremental borrowing rate of 5% based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.

On February 7, 2014, the Company entered into a lease agreement in Mount Vernon, New York on a month to month basis. The monthly rent under this arrangement from January 1, 2018 through November 30, 2018 was $10,000 per month, from December 2018 through February 2019 was $11,150 per month. The Company then amended the lease for a term that commenced on April 1, 2019 and expire on the 31st day of March 2024 at a monthly rate of $13,400. In March of 2021, the Company obtained additional lease space and the agreement was amended to increase rent expense to $15,000 per month. Rent expense for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $41,800 and $40,200, respectively. The lease can be cancelled by either party with 150 days of written notice.

Schedule maturities of operating lease liabilities outstanding as of March 31, 2021 are as follows:

2021	$	135,000
2022		180,000
2023		180,000
2024		45,000
Total lease payments		540,000
Less: Imputed Interest		(39,514	)
Present value of future minimum lease payments	$	500,486

Consistent with ASC 842-20-50-4, the Company calculated its total lease cost based solely on its monthly rent obligation. The Company had no cash flows arising from its lease, no finance lease cost, short term lease cost, or variable lease costs. Our lease does not produce any sublease income, or any net gain or loss recognized from sale and leaseback transactions. As a result, the Company did not need to segregate amounts between finance and operating leases for cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities, segregated between operating and financing cash flows; supplemental non-cash information on lease liabilities arising from obtaining right-of-use assets; weighted-average calculations for the remaining lease term; or the weighted-average discount rate.