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LEASES

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LEASES
9 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
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LEASES

Note 9. LEASES

 

The Company has one operating lease for its real estate and office space for the CAP/CLIA laboratory, as well as multiple finance leases for lab equipment in Texas that were acquired through the September 18, 2023, acquisition. Additionally, the Company entered into another operating lease on September 1, 2024 with regard to office space. The Company has operating leases consisting of office space with remaining lease terms ranging from 3.1 to 5.9 years as of September 30, 2024. The Company has finance leases consisting of office and lab equipment with remaining lease terms ranging from approximately 1.5 to 3.3 years as of September 30, 2024, for which the Company has determined that it will use the equipment for a major part of its remaining economic life.

 

The lease agreements generally do not provide an implicit borrowing rate. Therefore, the Company used a benchmark approach as of the date of inception of the leases to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to discount remaining lease payments. The Company benchmarked itself against other companies of similar credit ratings and comparable quality and derived imputed interest rates ranging from 7.43% to 8.07% for the lease term lengths.

 

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. There are no material residual guarantees associated with any of the Company’s leases, and there are no significant restrictions or covenants included in the Company’s lease agreements. Certain leases include variable payments related to common area maintenance and property taxes, which are billed by the landlord, as is customary with these types of charges for office space. The Company has not entered into any lease arrangements with related parties, and the Company is not the sublessor in any arrangement.

 

The Company’s existing leases contain escalation clauses and renewal options. The Company has evaluated several factors in assessing whether there is reasonable certainty that the Company will exercise a contractual renewal option. For leases with renewal options that are reasonably certain to be exercised, the Company included the renewal term in the total lease term used in calculating the right-of-use asset and lease liability.

 

 

The components of lease expense, which are included in selling, general and administrative expense and depreciation and amortization for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, are as follows:

 

    2024     2023     2024     2023  
    Three months ended September 30,     Nine months ended September 30,  
    2024     2023     2024     2023  
Amortization of right-of-use asset - finance lease   $ 96,243     $ 32,081     $ 288,729     $ 32,081  
Interest on lease liabilities - finance lease     21,533       8,634       67,318       8,634  
Operating lease cost     33,198       9,972       93,029       9,972  
Total lease cost   $ 150,974     $ 50,687     $ 449,076     $ 50,687  
                                 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:                                
Operating cash flows from finance leases   $ (91,038 )   $     $ (270,143 )   $ (8,433 )
Operating cash flows from operating leases     (203 )           (1,235 )      

 

Supplemental balance sheet information relating to leases was as follows as of September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2023:

 

Operating leases:   September 30, 2024     December 31, 2023  
Operating lease right-of-use asset   $ 493,687     $ 370,312  
Operating lease liability, current   $ 124,710     $ 94,708  
Operating lease liability, long-term   $ 375,139     $ 283,001  

 

Finance leases:   September 30, 2024     December 31, 2023  
Finance lease right-of-use asset, gross   $ 1,294,168     $ 1,294,168  
Accumulated amortization     (417,053 )     (128,324 )
Finance lease right-of-use asset, net   $ 877,115     $ 1,165,844  
Finance lease liability, current portion   $ 387,780     $ 365,463  
Finance lease liability, long-term     543,007       835,467  
Total finance lease liabilities   $ 930,787     $ 1,200,930  

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term:   September 30, 2024     December 31, 2023  
Operating leases (in years)     4.17       3.58  
Finance leases (in years)     2.60       3.25  

 

Weighted-average discount rate:   September 30, 2024     December 31, 2023  
Operating leases     7.43 %     8.07 %
Finance leases     8.02 %     8.01 %

 

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable lease as of September 30, 2024, are as follows:

 

    Operating Leases     Finance Leases  
Remaining for 2024   $ 39,341     $ 112,126  
2025     157,837       448,505  
2026     159,282       270,395  
2027     110,063       202,970  
2028 and thereafter     111,788        
Total undiscounted cash flows     578,311       1,033,996  
Less discounting     (78,462 )     (103,209 )
Present value of lease liabilities   $ 499,849     $ 930,787  

 

 

 
LEASES  

Note 9. LEASES

 

The Company has one operating lease for its real estate and office space and multiple finance leases for lab equipment in Texas that was acquired through the September 18, 2023, Acquisition. The operating lease has a remaining lease term of 3.58 years as of December 31, 2023. The Company has finance leases consisting of office and lab equipment with remaining lease terms ranging from approximately 2.25 to 4.0 years as of December 31, 2023, for which the Company has determined that it will use the equipment for a major part of its remaining economic life.

 

The lease agreements generally do not provide an implicit borrowing rate. Therefore, the Company used a benchmark approach as of December 31, 2023, to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to discount remaining lease payments. The Company benchmarked itself against other companies of similar credit ratings and comparable quality and derived imputed interest rates ranging from 7.97% to 8.13% for the lease term lengths.

 

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. There are no material residual guarantees associated with any of the Company’s leases, and there are no significant restrictions or covenants included in the Company’s lease agreements. Certain leases include variable payments related to common area maintenance and property taxes, which are billed by the landlord, as is customary with these types of charges for office space. The Company has not entered into any lease arrangements with related parties, and the Company is not the sublessor in any arrangement.

 

The Company’s existing leases contain escalation clauses and renewal options. The Company has evaluated several factors in assessing whether there is reasonable certainty that the Company will exercise a contractual renewal option. For leases with renewal options that are reasonably certain to be exercised, the Company included the renewal term in the total lease term used in calculating the right-of-use asset and lease liability. Prior to adoption of ASU 2016-02 effective January 1, 2022, the Company accounted for operating lease transactions by recording lease expense on a straight-line basis over the expected term of the lease.

 

The components of lease expense, which are included in selling, general and administrative expense and depreciation and amortization for the year ended December 31, 2023, and 2022 are as follows:

 

Components of lease expense:   2023     2022  
Amortization of right-of-use assets - finance lease   $ 128,324     $  
Interest on lease liabilities - finance lease     33,838        
Operating lease cost     39,887        
Total lease cost   $ 202,049     $  

 

Operating leases:   2023     2022  
Operating lease right-of-use, assets   $ 370,312     $  
Operating lease liability, current     94,708        
Operating lease liability, non-current     283,001        
Total operating lease liabilities   $ 377,709     $  

 

Financing leases:   2023     2022  
Financing lease right-of-use assets, gross   $ 1,294,168     $  
Accumulated amortization     (128,324 )        
Finance lease right-of-use assets, net   $ 1,165,844     $  
Financing lease liability, current     365,463        
Financing lease liability, non-current     835,467        
Financing lease liability, long-term   $ 1,200,930     $  

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term:   2023     2022  
Operating leases (in years)     3.58        
Finance leases (in years)     3.25        

 

Weighted-average discount rate:   2023     2022  
Operating leases     8.07 %      
Finance leases     8.01 %      

 

    Operating Leases     Finance Leases  
2024   $ 121,726     $ 448,505  
2025     121,726       448,505  
2026     121,726       270,395  
2027 and thereafter     71,007       202,970  
Total undiscounted cash flows     436,185       1,370,375  
Less discounting     (58,476 )     (169,445 )
Present value of lease liabilities   $ 377,709     $ 1,200,930