Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Note 9 - Lease Liability

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Note 9 - Lease Liability
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]
9.
Lease liability
 
Aptose leases office space and lab space in San Diego, California. The lease for the office space expires on
March 31, 2023
and can be extended for an additional
5
year period. The lease for our lab space expired on
February
29,
2019,
and on
February 18, 2019
was renewed until
February 28, 2022.
We lease office space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the lease for this location expires on
June 30, 2023
with an option to renew for another
5
-year period. The Company has
not
included any extension periods in calculating its right-to-use assets and lease liabilities. The Company also enters into leases for small office equipment.
 
Minimum payments, undiscounted, under our operating leases are as follows:
 
Years ending December 31,    
2020   $
534
 
2021    
545
 
2022    
463
 
2023    
119
 
Thereafter    
-
 
    $
1,661
 
 
To calculate the lease liability, the lease payments in the table above were discounted over the remaining term of the leases using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate as at
January 1, 2019
for existing leases at the time of adopting the Topic
842,
and for new leases after the date adoption, as at the date of the execution date of the new lease. The following table presents the weighted average remaining term of the leases and the weighted average discount rate:
 
    Year ended
December 31, 2019
 
Weighted-average remaining term – operating leases (years)    
3.3
 
Weighted-average discount rate – operating leases    
5.43
%
         
Lease liability, current portion    
521
 
Lease liability, long term portion    
1,011
 
Lease liability, total    
1,532
 
 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities are as follows:
 
    Year ended
December 31, 2019
 
Right-of-use assets recorded upon adoption of Topic 842, January 1, 2019   $
1,570
 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities in the period   $
267
 
 
Operating lease costs and operating cash flows from our operating leases are as follows:
 
    Year ended
December 31, 2019
 
Operating lease cost   $
551
 
Operating cash flows from operating leases   $
471
 
 
Comparable figures are
not
presented as the Company adopted the new standard using the alternative transition method, which permits a company to use its effective date as the date of initial application without restating comparative period financial statements.