Company: ACCS
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000843006-25-000012
Chunk: 157

Company: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
Chunk 157
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 to Raleigh, North Carolina. The lease had a lease commencement date of October 2, 2019 and expires December 31, 2027. Minimum lease payments are $2,997,000, not including a tenant improvement allowance of $488,000, which is included in fixed assets as of December 31, 2024. The Company recognized a ROU asset and corresponding lease liability of $2,596,000, which represents the present value of minimum lease payments discounted at 3.77%, the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at lease inception.  Lease liabilities totaled $1,057,000 as of December 31, 2024. The current portion of this liability of $389,000 is included in Accrued expenses on the Consolidated balance sheets and the long-term portion of $668,000 is included in Lease liabilities on the Consolidated balance sheets. Rent expense consists of both operating lease expense from amortization of our ROU assets as well as variable lease expense which consists of non-lease components of office leases (i.e. common area maintenance) or rent expense associated with short-term leases. The components of lease expense were as follows (in 000’s):   Year ended December 31, 2024  Year ended December 31, 2023 Lease expense      Operating lease expense $304  $304 Variable lease expense  64   56 Rent expense $368  $360 

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The weighted-average remaining non-cancelable lease term for our operating leases was 3 years as of December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, the weighted-average discount rate used to determine the lease liability was 3.77%. The future minimum lease payments to be made under non-cancelable operating leases on December 31, 2024, are as follows (in 000’s): Year Ended December 31:   2025 $389 2026  401 2027  413 Total lease payments  1,203 Present value adjustment  (146 )Lease liability $1,057  We have performed an evaluation of our other contracts with customers and suppliers in accordance with Topic 842 and have determined that, except for the leases described above, none of our contracts contain a lease.

Note 11: Commitments and Contingencies From time to time, the Company