Leases

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) which was modified by subsequently issued ASUs 2018-01, 2018-10, 2018-11 and 2018-20 (collectively the “New Lease Standard”). The New Lease Standard requires organizations that lease assets (“lessees”) to recognize the assets and liabilities of the rights and obligations created by leases with terms of more than 12 months. The recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee remains dependent on its classification as a finance or operating lease. The New Lease Standard also requires additional disclosure of the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases, including qualitative and quantitative requirements. The New Lease Standard was effective for financial statements issued for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years.

In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements (“ASU 2018-11”). ASU 2018-11 provided additional relief in the comparative reporting requirements for initial adoption of the New Lease Standard. Prior to ASU 2018-11, a modified retrospective transition was required for financing or operating leases existing at or entered after the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements. ASU 2018-11 provided an additional transition method allowing entities to initially apply the New Lease Standard at the adoption date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption without adjustment to the financial statements for periods prior to adoption.

The Company adopted the New Lease Standard effective February 1, 2019. We elected to apply the current period transition approach as introduced by ASU 2018-11 and we elected to apply the following practical expedients and accounting policy decisions.

We elected a package of transition expedients, which must be elected together, that allowed us to forgo reassessing certain conclusions reached under ASC 840. All expedients in this package were applied together for all leases that commenced before the effective date, February 1, 2019, of the adoption of the New Lease Standard. As a result, in transitioning to the New Lease Standard, for existing leases as of February 1, 2019, we continued to use judgments made under ASC 840 related to embedded leases, lease classification and accounting for initial direct costs. In addition, we have chosen, as an accounting policy election by class of underlying asset, not to separate non-lease components from the associated lease for all our leased asset classes, excluding for Real Estate related leases. As a result, for classes of Automobiles, Office Equipment and Manufacturing Equipment, we account for each separate lease component and the non-lease components associated with that lease as a single lease component.

The Company has certain non-cancelable operating lease agreements for office, production and warehouse space in Texas, Hungary, Singapore, Malaysia, Colombia, United Kingdom and Canada.

Adoption of the New Lease Standard did have a material impact on our consolidated balance sheet as we recorded right-of-use assets and the corresponding lease liabilities related to our operating leases of approximately $3.0 million, each. The Company determined to treat lease costs with an original maturity of less than one year as short-term lease costs and did not record a right-of-use asset or related lease liability for these leases. The new standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated statements of operations or our statements of cash flows.

Lease expense for the twelve months ended January 31, 2020 was approximately $1.2 million and was recorded as a component of operating loss. Included in these costs was short-term lease expense of approximately $30,000 for the twelve months ended January 31, 2020.

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases as of January 31, 2020 was as follows (in thousands):



Lease	January 31, 2020		Impact of ASC 842 Transition
Assets
Operating lease assets	$	2,300	$	2,710

Liabilities
Operating lease liabilities	$	2,300	$	2,710

Classification of lease liabilities
Current liabilities	$	1,339
Non-current liabilities	961
Total Operating lease liabilities	$	2,300

Lease-term and discount rate details as of January 31, 2020 were as follows:



Lease term and discount rate	January 31, 2020
Weighted average remaining lease term (years)
Operating leases	1.76

Weighted average discount rate:
Operating leases	9.27	%

The incremental borrowing rate was calculated using the Company’s weighted average cost of capital.

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows (in thousands):



Lease	Twelve Months Ended January 31, 2020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	(1,182	)

Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease liabilities:
Operating leases	$	635

Maturities of lease liabilities at January 31, 2020 were as follows (in thousands):



	January 31, 2020
2021	$	1,338
2022	838
2023	222
2024	98
2025	52
Thereafter	21
Total payments under lease agreements	$	2,569

Less: imputed interest	(269		)
Total lease liabilities	$	2,300

The Company leases seismic equipment to customers under operating leases with non-cancelable terms of one year or less. These leases are generally renewable on a month-to-month basis. All taxes (other than income taxes) and assessments are the contractual responsibility of the lessee. To the extent that foreign taxes are not paid by the lessee, the relevant foreign taxing authorities might seek to collect such taxes from the Company. Under the terms of its lease agreements, any amounts paid by the Company to such foreign taxing authorities may be billed and collected from the lessee. The Company is not aware of any foreign tax obligations as of January 31, 2020 and 2019 that are not reflected in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

The Company leases seismic equipment, as well as other equipment from others under operating leases. Lease expense incurred by the Company in connection with such leases amounted to approximately $2.5 million, $1.9 million and $774,000 for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

The Company leases its office and warehouse facilities in Canada, Texas, Singapore, United Kingdom, Hungary, Colombia and Malaysia under operating leases. Facility lease expense for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 was approximately $1.2 million, $1.3 million and $1.2 million, respectively.