2)For the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company recognized the second contract year’s revenue amount of $422,883 (NTD 12,855,000), net of VAT, and refunded the amount of $690,537 (NTD 20,478,333), net of VAT, due to uncertainty resolved after Amendment 3 went effective.
3)For the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company recognized the third contract year’s revenue amount of $415,423 (NTD12,628,201), net of VAT, and refund amount of $633,955 (NTD18,800,370), net of VAT, for the same contract period based on the calculation of VONB and 13-month persistency.
4)For the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company recognized the fourth contract year’s revenue amount of $372,650 (NTD11,228,600), net of VAT, and refund amount of $670,389 (NTD 20,199,971), net of VAT, for the same contract period based on the calculation of VONB and 13-month persistency.
5)For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recognized the fifth contract year's revenue amount of $314,953 (NTD9,481,371), net of VAT, and refund the amount of $729,045 (NTD 21,947,200), net of VAT, for the same contract period based on the calculation of VONB and 13-month persistency.
6)The Company estimated VONB and 13-month persistency ratio for the year ending December 31, 2020 and calculated the revenue amount to be $395,488 (NTD 11,774,011) for the year. The amount will be reassessed every quarter until receiving AIATW’s notice.
The Company recognized revenue of $94,493 (NTD 2,813,139), net of VAT, and $73,691(NTD 2,281,470), net of VAT for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, and $282,491 (NTD 8,410,008) and $234,852 (NTD 7,271,032) , net of VAT, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had non-current portion of contract liabilities of $271,375 and $1,049,258, respectively, and current contract liabilities of $1,609,155 and $1,781,975, respectively, related to the Alliance Agreement.
NOTE 10 –LEASE
The Company adopted ASC 842 as of January 1, 2019 using a modified retrospective transition with no adjustment to its comparative periods in the year of transition. The Company elected the practical expedients, which allow the Company not to reassess prior conclusions with respect to lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs under ASC 842. The Company did not elect the hindsight practical expedient to determine the lease term or in assessing the likelihood that a lease purchase option will be exercised. The adoption of ASC 842 resulted in the recognition of operating lease right-of-use assets of $4.0 million and corresponding operating lease liabilities of $3.7 million as of January 1, 2019 on the consolidated balance sheet.
The Company has operating leases for its offices with lease terms ranging from one to six years. We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception of the contract and whether a contract is or contains a lease by determining whether it conveys the right to control the use of the identified asset for a period of time. If the contract provides us the right to substantially all of the economic benefits from the use of the identified asset and the right to direct the use of the identified asset, we consider it to be, or contain, a lease. We record a right-of-use asset and a corresponding lease liability based on the present value of the minimum lease payments. The lease term used in the calculation of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities renewal and termination options that are reasonably certain to be exercised. Leases with an initial term of twelve months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheet and the related lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Our leases do not provide an implicit borrowing rate, and we estimate the Company’s incremental borrowing rate to discount the lease payments based on information available at lease commencement.
The Company recorded operating lease cost of $910,073 and $2,562,384 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, and $701,341 and $2,076,084 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, respectively.