3. REVENUE RECOGNITION

Performance Obligations

Performance Obligations Satisfied at a Point in Time

The Company’s standard delivery method is “free on board” shipping point. Consequently, the Company considers control of most products to transfer at a single point in time when control is transferred to the customer, generally when the products are shipped in accordance with an agreement and/or purchase order. Control is defined as the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits of the product.

The Company satisfies its performance obligations under a contract with a customer by transferring goods and services in exchange for generally monetary consideration from the customer. The Company considers the customer's purchase order, and the Company's corresponding sales order acknowledgment as the contract with the customer. For some customers, control, and a sale, is transferred at a point in time when the product is delivered to a customer.

Sales, value add, and other taxes we collect concurrent with revenue-producing activities are excluded from revenue.

Performance Obligations Satisfied Over Time

The Company has certain contracts that have performance obligations that are satisfied over periods exceeding one year. Determining a measure of progress requires management to make judgments that affect the timing of revenue recognized.

For a contract satisfied over time (greater than one year), revenue is recognized similarly to contracts satisfied at a point in time. The Company transfers control and recognizes a sale when the Company ships the product from a manufacturing facility to a customer. The only difference is that the shipments are not completed within a one-year timeframe. The revenue recognized for the contracts satisfied over time were immaterial for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2018.

The Company has determined that the above methods provide a faithful depiction of the transfer of goods to the customer.

Nature of Goods and Services

The Company sells component and integrated motion control solutions to end customers and original equipment manufacturers (“OEM’s”) through the Company’s own direct sales force and authorized manufacturers’ representatives and distributors. The Company’s products include brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, incremental and absolute optical encoders, and other motion control-related products. The Company’s target markets include Vehicle, Medical, Aerospace & Defense and Electronics/Industrial.

Determining the Transaction Price

The majority of the Company’s contracts have an original duration of less than one year. For these contracts, the Company applies the practical expedient and therefore does not consider the effects of the time value of money. For multiyear contracts, the Company uses judgment to determine whether there is a significant financing component. These contracts are generally those in which the customer has made an up-front payment. Contracts that management determines to include a significant financing component are discounted at the Company’s incremental borrowing rate. The Company incurs interest expense and accrues a contract liability. As the Company satisfies performance obligations and recognizes revenue from these contracts, interest expense is recognized simultaneously. Management does not have any contracts that include a significant financing component as of September 30, 2018.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company disaggregates revenue from contracts with customers into geographical regions and target markets. The Company determines that disaggregating revenue into these categories achieves the disclosure objective to depict how the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors. As noted in the Segment Information footnote, the Company’s business consists of one reportable segment. A reconciliation of disaggregated revenue to segment revenue as well as revenue by geographical regions is provided in Note 16, Segment Information.


	Three months ended		Nine months ended
Target Market	September 30, 2018		September 30, 2018
Vehicle	$	31,717	$	95,071
Industrial/Electronics		24,668		76,633
Medical		10,732		31,214
Aerospace & Defense		10,332		26,701
Other		2,643		7,030
Total	$	80,092	$	236,649


	Three months ended		Nine months ended
Geography	September 30, 2018		September 30, 2018
United States	$	49,375	$	140,031
Europe		29,975		94,754
Asia		742		1,864
Total	$	80,092	$	236,649

Contract Balances

When the timing of the Company’s delivery of product is different from the timing of the payments made by customers, the Company recognizes either a contract asset (performance precedes customer payment) or a contract liability (customer payment precedes performance). Typically, contracts are paid in arrears and are recognized as receivables after the Company considers whether a significant financing component exists.

The opening and closing balances of the Company’s receivables, contract asset, and contract liability are as follows (in thousands):


	Three months ended September 31, 2018						Nine months ended September 31, 2018
					Contract						Contract
	Receivables		Contract Asset		Liability		Receivables		Contract Asset		Liability
Opening balance	$	—	$	—	$	623	$	—	$	—	$	719
Closing balance		—		—		579		—		—		579
Decrease	$	—	$	—	$	(44)	$	—	$	—	$	(140)

The difference between the opening and closing balances of the Company’s contract assets and contract liabilities primarily results from the timing difference between the Company’s performance and the customer’s payment.

Significant Payment Terms

The Company’s contracts with its customers state the final terms of the sale, including the description, quantity, and price of each product or service purchased. Payments are typically due in full within 30-60 days of delivery. Since the customer agrees to a stated rate and price in the contract that do not vary over the contract, the majority of contracts do not contain variable consideration.

Returns, Refunds, and Warranties

In the normal course of business, the Company does not accept product returns unless the item is defective as manufactured. The Company establishes provisions for estimated returns and warranties. All contracts include a standard warranty clause to guarantee that the product complies with agreed specifications.

Practical Expedients

Incremental costs of obtaining a contract - the Company elected to expense the incremental costs of obtaining a contract when the amortization period for such contracts would have been one year or less.

Remaining performance obligations - the Company elected not to disclose the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations for its contracts that are one year or less, as the revenue is expected to be recognized within the next year.

The time value of money - the Company elected not to adjust the promised amount of consideration for the effects of the time value of money for contracts in which the anticipated period between when the Company transfers the goods or services to the customer and when the customer pays is equal to one year or less.