Operating Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

As described in Note 1, the Company adopted ASC 842 prospectively as of January 1, 2019. The Company leases the majority of its pawnshop locations under operating leases and determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at inception. Many leases include both lease and non-lease components, which the Company accounts for separately. Lease components include rent, taxes and insurance costs while non-lease components include common area or other maintenance costs. Operating leases are included in operating lease right of use assets, lease liability, current and lease liability, non-current in the consolidated balance sheets. The Company does not have any finance leases.

The following table details the components of the operating lease right of use asset and lease liability recognized upon adoption of ASC 842 on January 1, 2019 (in thousands):



Initial measurement of operating lease right of use asset (present value of the future minimum lease payments)	$	295,063
Accrued straight-line rent liability ⁽¹⁾	(4,237		)
Amounts previously recognized in respect of business combinations:
Favorable lease intangible assets ⁽²⁾	45,596
Unfavorable lease intangible liabilities ⁽³⁾	(17,275		)
Total initial operating lease right of use asset	$	319,147

Lease liability, current	$	(87,608	)
Lease liability, non-current	(207,455		)
Total initial lease liability (present value of the future minimum lease payments)	$	(295,063	)


⁽¹⁾	Included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2018.


⁽²⁾	Included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2018.


⁽³⁾	Included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities and other liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2018.

Leased facilities are generally leased for a term of three to five years with one or more options to renew for an additional three to five years, typically at the Company’s sole discretion. In addition, the majority of these leases can be terminated early upon an adverse change in law which negatively affects the store’s profitability. The Company regularly evaluates renewal and termination options to determine if the Company is reasonably certain to exercise the option, and excludes these options from the lease term included in the recognition of the operating lease right of use asset and lease liability until such certainty exists. The weighted-average remaining lease term for operating leases as of September 30, 2019 was 3.9 years.

The operating lease right of use asset and lease liability is recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. The Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate and therefore, it uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of the lease payments. The Company utilizes a portfolio approach for determining the incremental borrowing rate to apply to groups of leases with similar characteristics. The weighted-average discount rate used to measure the lease liability as of September 30, 2019 was 7.6%.

The Company has certain operating leases in Mexico which are denominated in U.S. dollars. The liability related to these leases is considered a monetary liability, and requires remeasurement each reporting period into the functional currency (Mexican pesos) using reporting date exchange rates. The remeasurement results in the recognition of foreign currency exchange gains or losses each reporting period, which can produce a certain level of earnings volatility. The Company recognized an unrealized foreign currency loss of $0.5 million and an unrealized foreign currency gain of $49,000 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, respectively, related to the remeasurement of these U.S. dollar denominated operating leases, which is included in loss (gain) on foreign exchange in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.

Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term, with variable lease expense recognized in the period such payments are incurred. The following table details the components of lease expense included in store operating expenses in the consolidated statements of income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2019		September 30, 2019
Operating lease expense	$	31,083	$	93,355
Variable lease expense ⁽¹⁾	2,860		7,114
Total operating lease expense	$	33,943	$	100,469


⁽¹⁾	Variable lease costs consist primarily of taxes, insurance and common area or other maintenance costs paid based on actual costs incurred by the lessor and can therefore vary over the lease term.

The following table details the maturity of lease liabilities for all operating leases as of September 30, 2019 (in thousands):



Three months ending December 31, 2019	$	27,322
2020	94,885
2021	74,771
2022	51,458
2023	31,635
Thereafter	25,485
Total	$	305,556
Less amount of lease payments representing interest	(40,971		)
Total present value of lease payments	$	264,585

The following table details supplemental cash flow information related to operating leases for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 (in thousands):



Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	$	87,509
Leased assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities	$	43,616