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Note 8 - Lease Liability

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Note 8 - Lease Liability
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]
8.
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. 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,        
2019   $
369
 
2020    
521
 
2021    
532
 
2022    
460
 
2023    
119
 
Thereafter    
 
    $
2,001
 
 
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:
 
     
Three months ended

March 31, 2019
 
Weighted-average remaining term – operating leases (in years)    
3.8
 
Weighted-average discount rate  – operating leases    
5.42
%
         
Lease liability, current portion    
485
 
Lease liability, long term portion    
1,322
 
Lease liability, total    
1,807
 
         
 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities are as follows:
 
     
Three months ended

March 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   $
234
 
         
 
Operating lease costs and operating cash flows from our operating leases are as follows:
 
     
Three months ended

March 31, 2019
 
         
Operating lease cost   $
148
 
         
Operating cash flows from operating leases   $
99
 
         
 
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.