4. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

4. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

The Company adopted ASU Topic 842 on April 1, 2019 utilizing the alternative transition method allowed for under this guidance. As a result, the Company recorded lease liabilities and right-of-use lease assets of $228,694 on its balance sheet as of April 1, 2019. The lease liabilities represent the present value of the remaining lease payments of the Company’s corporate headquarters lease (see Note 13), discounted using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate as of April 1, 2019. The corresponding right-of-use lease assets are recorded based on the lease liabilities and the cumulative difference between rent expense and amounts paid under its corporate headquarters lease. The Company also elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for its laboratory lease. For the laboratory lease that qualified as short-term, the Company did not recognize ROU assets or lease liabilities at adoption. The adoption of ASU 2016-02 did not have a material impact on either the statement of operations or statement of cash flows for the nine months ended December 31, 2019.

Topic 842 also allows lessees and lessors to elect certain practical expedients. The Company elected the following practical expedients:

· Transitional practical expedients, which must be elected as a package and applied consistently to all of the Company’s leases:

°	The Company need not reassess whether any expired or existing contracts are or contain leases.
°	The Company need not reassess the lease classification for any expired or existing leases (that is, all existing leases that were classified as operating leases in accordance with the previous guidance will be classified as operating leases, and all existing leases that were classified as capital leases in accordance with the previous guidance will be classified as finance leases).
°	The Company need not reassess initial direct costs for any existing leases.

· Hindsight practical expedient. The Company elected the hindsight practical expedient in determining the lease term (that is, when considering lessee options to extend or terminate the lease and to purchase the underlying asset) and in assessing impairment of the Company’s right-of-use assets.