REVENUE RECOGNITION

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

REVENUE RECOGNITION

REVENUE RECOGNITION

11.         REVENUE RECOGNITION

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 606, the Company disaggregates its revenue from clients into three revenue streams, service revenue, product revenue, and royalties. At contract inception the Company assesses the services promised in the contract with the clients to identify performance obligations in the arrangements.

Service revenue

The Company enters into contracts with clients to provide drug discovery and development services with payments based on mainly fixed-fee arrangements. The Company also offers archive storage services to its clients.

The Company’s fixed fee arrangements may involve nonclinical research services (toxicology, pathology, pharmacology), bioanalytical, and pharmaceutical method development and validation, nonclinical research services and the analysis of bioanalytical and pharmaceutical samples. For bioanalytical and pharmaceutical method validation services and nonclinical research services, revenue is recognized over time using the input method based on the ratio of direct costs incurred to total estimated direct costs. For contracts that involve in-life study conduct, method development or the analysis of bioanalytical and pharmaceutical samples, revenue is recognized over time when samples are analyzed or when services are performed. The Company generally bills for services on a milestone basis. These contracts represent a single performance obligation and due to the Company’s right to payment for work performed, revenue is recognized over time. Research services contract fees received upon acceptance are deferred until earned and classified within customer advances on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Unbilled revenues represent revenues earned under contracts in advance of billings.

Archive services provide climate controlled archiving for client’s data and samples. The archive revenue is recognized over time, generally when the service is provided. These arrangements include one performance obligation. Amounts related to future archiving or prepaid archiving contracts for clients where archiving fees are billed in advance are accounted for as deferred revenue and recognized ratably over the period the applicable archive service is performed.

Product revenue

The Company’s products can be sold to multiple clients and have alternative use. Both the transaction sales price and shipping terms are agreed upon in the client order. For these products, all revenue is recognized at a point in time, generally when title of the product and control is transferred to the client based upon shipping terms. These arrangements typically include only one performance obligation. Certain products have maintenance agreements available for clients to purchase. These are typically billed in advance and are accounted for as deferred revenue, are recognized ratably over the applicable maintenance period and are included in customer advances on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

Royalty revenue

The Company has an agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals (formerly Biocraft Laboratories, Inc,) which manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products. The Company receives royalties in accordance with sales of certain pharmaceuticals that Teva manufactures and sells. The royalties are received on a quarterly basis and the revenue is recognized over the quarter. Royalty revenue is included in service revenue on the condensed consolidated statement of operations. Total revenue recognized was $102 and $131 in the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Total revenue recognized was $255 and $567 in the nine months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

The following table presents changes in the Company’s contract assets and contract liabilities for the nine months ended June 30, 2021.

	Balance at						Balance at
	September 30,						June 30,
	2020		Additions		Deductions		2021
Contract Assets: Unbilled receivables	$	1,879	$	3,963	$	(1,848)	$	3,994
Contract liabilities: Customer advances	$	11,392	$	125,225	$	(116,648)	$	19,969