The Company determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at contract inception. These lease agreements have remaining lease terms of 1 to 8 years. The Company recognizes a right-of-use (“ROU”) asset and a lease liability at the lease commencement date. The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the unpaid lease payments as of the lease commencement date. Key estimates and judgments include how the Company determines (1) the discount rate it uses to discount the unpaid lease payments to present value, (2) the lease term, and (3) lease payments.

Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") 842 requires a lessee to discount its unpaid lease payments using the interest rate implicit in the lease or, if that rate cannot be readily determined, its incremental borrowing rate. Generally, the Company cannot determine the interest rate implicit in the lease because it does not have access to the lessor's estimated residual value or the amount of the lessor's deferred initial direct costs. Therefore, the Company generally uses its incremental borrowing rate as the discount rate for the lease. The Company's incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest it would have to pay on a collateralized basis to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments under similar terms. Because the Company does not generally borrow on a collateralized basis, it uses quoted interest rates obtained from financial institutions as an input to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate, adjusted for the amount of the lease payments, the lease term, and the effect on that rate of designating specific collateral with a value equal to the unpaid lease payments for that lease.

The Company’s lease agreements may include options to extend the lease following the initial term. At the time of adopting ASC 842, the Company determined that it was reasonably certain it would exercise the option to renew; accordingly, these options were considered in determining the initial lease term. The Company elected the practical expedient of hindsight in determining the option to renew. During the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the Company reassessed the assumption of the renewal term and determined that, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company now expects more of its workforce to be working from home permanently. Therefore, expecting a reduction in overall square footage of office space needs, the Company no longer believes it is reasonably certain it will exercise most of its options to renew, and therefore, has removed the renewal term of several lease obligations. The subsequent re-measurement reduced the right-of-use asset and related lease liability on the consolidated balance sheet, but had an immaterial impact on the income statement.

For lease agreements entered into or reassessed after the adoption of ASC 842, the Company has elected the practical expedient to account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. Therefore, for those leases, the lease payments used to measure the lease liability include all of the fixed consideration in the contract.

Variable lease payments associated with the Company’s leases are recognized upon occurrence of the event, activity, or circumstance in the lease agreement on which those payments are assessed.

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. The Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The components of lease expense are as follows:


	Three Months Ended		Three Months Ended
	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Operating lease expense	$	2,429,000	$	3,090,000
Finance lease expense		21,000		23,000
Short-term lease expense		86,000		5,000
Variable lease expense		161,000		213,000
Total lease expenses	$	2,697,000	$	3,331,000


	Nine Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Operating lease expense	$	7,646,000	$	9,381,000
Finance lease expense		65,000		70,000
Short-term lease expense		184,000		12,000
Variable lease expense		555,000		577,000
Total lease expenses	$	8,450,000	$	10,040,000

The following table presents the lease related assets and liabilities recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets related to its operating leases:


	December 31, 2023			March 31, 2023
Right-of-use asset, net	$	25,083,000		$	27,721,000
Short-term lease liability	$	9,316,000		$	9,900,000
Long-term lease liability		23,078,000			23,860,000
Total lease liabilities	$	32,394,000		$	33,760,000
Weighted average remaining operating lease term	4.10 years			4.07 years
Weighted average remaining finance lease term	1.50 years			2.25 years
Weighted average discount rate		3.5	%		2.8	%

Supplemental cash flow information related to operating leases for the nine months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was as follows:


	Nine Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	$	6,378,000	$	10,984,000
Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets	$	52,287,000	$	56,105,000
Finance lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets	$	358,000	$	358,000
Reductions to ROU assets resulting from reductions to operating lease liabilities	$	31,000	$	2,217,000

As of December 31, 2023, maturities of operating lease liabilities for each of the next five years and thereafter are as follows:



2024	$	2,790,000
2025		9,698,000
2026		7,488,000
2027		5,849,000
2028		4,905,000
Thereafter		4,363,000
Total lease payments		35,093,000
Less interest		(2,699,000	)
Total lease liabilities	$	32,394,000

As of December 31, 2023, the Company has approximately $5.0 million of additional operating lease commitments that have not yet commenced. These additional leases commence in the future and have lease terms between 3 years and 5 years.