NOTE 19 – LEASES

The Company determines whether a contract contains a lease at inception of the contract and whether that lease meets the classification criteria of a finance or operating lease. When available, the Company uses the rate implicit in the lease to discount lease payments to present value; however, most of the Company’s leases do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate. Therefore, the Company must discount lease payments based on an estimate of its incremental borrowing rate.

The table below presents the lease related assets and liabilities recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2021:

Lease obligations at September 30, 2021, consisted of the following:

Lease commitments for short term operating leases as of September 30, 2021, are approximately $626. The Company’s rent expense for office space was $653 and $769 for the three and six months ended September 30, 2021, and $70 and $171 for the three and six months ended September 30, 2020, respectively.