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REVENUES FROM CONTRACT WITH CUSTOMERS

12 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2021

REVENUES FROM CONTRACT WITH CUSTOMERS

REVENUES FROM CONTRACT WITH CUSTOMERS

NOTE 4 – REVENUES FROM CONTRACTS WITH CUSTOMERS

Variable Consideration

Amounts for contract variations for which the Company has project-owner directive for additional work or other scope change, but not for the price associated with the corresponding additional effort, are included in the transaction price when it is considered probable that the applicable costs will be recovered through a modification to the contract price. The effects of any revision to a transaction price can be determined at any time and they could be material. The Company may include in the corresponding transaction price a portion of the amount claimed in a dispute that it expects to receive from a project owner. Once a settlement of the dispute has been reached with the project owner, the transaction price may be revised again to reflect the final resolution. The aggregate amount of such contract variations included in the transaction prices that were used to determine project-to-date revenues at January 31, 2021 and 2020, were $16.6 million and $20.6 million, respectively. Variations related to the Company’s contracts typically represent modifications to the existing contracts and performance obligations, and do not represent new performance obligations. Actual costs related to any changes in the

scope of the corresponding contract are expensed as they are incurred. Changes to total estimated contract costs and losses, if any, are reflected in operating results for the period in which they are determined.

The Company’s long-term contracts typically have schedule dates and other performance objectives that if not achieved could subject the Company to liquidated damages. These contract requirements generally relate to specified activities that must be completed by an established date or by the achievement of a specified level of output or efficiency. Each applicable contract defines the conditions under which a project owner may be entitled to any liquidated damages. At the outset of each of the Company’s contracts, the potential amounts of liquidated damages typically are not subtracted from the transaction price as the Company believes that it has included activities in its contract plan, and the associated costs, that will be effective in preventing such damages. Of course, circumstances may change as the Company executes the corresponding contract. The transaction price is reduced by an applicable amount when the Company no longer considers it probable that a future reversal of revenues will not occur when the matter is resolved. The Company considers potential liquidated damages, the costs of other related items and potential mitigating factors in determining the adequacy of its regularly updated estimates of the amounts of gross profit expected to be earned on active projects.

In other cases, the Company may have the grounds to assert liquidated damages against subcontractors, suppliers, project owners or other parties related to a project. Such circumstances may arise when the Company’s activities and progress are adversely affected by delayed or damaged materials, challenges with equipment performance or other events out of the Company’s control where the Company has rights to recourse, typically in the form of liquidated damages. In general, the Company does not adjust the corresponding contract accounting until it is probable that the favorable cost relief will be realized. Such adjustments have been and could be material.

The Company records adjustments to revenues and profits on contracts, including those associated with contract variations and estimated cost changes, using a cumulative catch-up method. Under this method, the impact of an adjustment to the amount of revenues recognized to date is recorded in the period that the adjustment is identified. Estimated variable consideration amounts are determined by the Company based primarily on the single most likely amount in the range of possible consideration amounts. Revenues and profits in future periods of contract performance are recognized using the adjusted amounts of transaction price and estimated contract costs.

Accounting for the Subcontract Loss

In its Annual Report on Form 10-K for Fiscal 2019, the Company disclosed that APC was completing the mechanical installation of the boiler for a biomass-fired power plant under construction in Teesside, England (the “TeesREP Project”) that had encountered significant operational and contractual challenges. The consolidated operating results for Fiscal 2019 reflected unfavorable gross profit adjustments related to this project. The disclosure explained that the construction project was behind the schedule originally established for the job and warned that the TeesREP Project may continue to impact the Company’s consolidated operating results negatively until it reaches completion.

Subsequent to the release of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for Fiscal 2019, APC’s estimates of the costs of the unfavorable financial impacts of the difficulties on the TeesREP Project escalated substantially. For Fiscal 2020, the Company recorded a loss related to this project in the amount of $33.6 million, and reversed profit in the amount of $0.7 million that had been recorded in prior fiscal years.

Construction activities on the TeesREP Project were suspended on March 24, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, APC had completed approximately 90% of its subcontracted work. In connection with resuming its efforts on the TeesREP Project, APC entered into an amendment to the subcontract with its customer, effective June 1, 2020, covering the various terms and conditions for completion of the installation of the boiler (“Amendment No. 2”). The amendment represented a global settlement of past commercial differences with both parties making significant concessions, and converted the billing arrangements for the remaining work to a time-and-materials basis.

Amendment No. 2 was treated as a modification of the original subcontract as the arrangement continued to represent a single performance obligation to its customer, the delivery of a complete functioning and integrated boiler that was only partially satisfied when the modification to the subcontract occurred. During October 2020, APC and its customer agreed to additional contractual changes that effectively recognized APC’s completion of the single performance obligation and that established a time-and-materials contractual arrangement covering all works requested by APC’s customer until completion of the power plant construction which APC expects to occur during the second quarter of the Company’s fiscal year ending January 31, 2022 (“Fiscal 2022”).

The negotiated changes to the contractual arrangements for the TeesREP Project and the redirected efforts of the top management of APC and the project team resulted in the reduction of the final amount of the loss incurred on the fixed-price portion of the TeesREP subcontract from $33.6 million to $29.5 million. Final closeout adjustments may result in future changes in the amount of this loss; however, APC has included an estimate of these costs in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2021. The project activities being conducted by APC under the time and materials arrangement have been and continue to be profitable.

The total amounts of accounts receivable and contract assets related to the TeesREP Project and included in the consolidated balance sheets were $4.7 million and $19.2 million as of January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Remaining Unsatisfied Performance Obligations (“RUPO”)

The amount of RUPO represents the unrecognized revenue value of active contracts with customers as determined under the revenue recognition rules of US GAAP. Increases to RUPO during a reporting period represent the transaction prices associated with new contracts, as well as additions to the transaction prices of existing contracts. The amounts of such changes may vary significantly each reporting period based on the timing of major new contract awards and the occurrence and assessment of contract variations.

At January 31, 2021, the Company had RUPO of $552.5 million. The largest portion of RUPO at any date usually relates to EPC service contracts with typical performance durations of one to three years. However, the length of certain significant construction projects may exceed three years. The Company estimates that approximately 64% of the RUPO amount at January 31, 2021 will be included in the amount of consolidated revenues that will be recognized during Fiscal 2022. Most of the remaining amount of the RUPO amount at January 31, 2021 is expected to be recognized in revenues during the fiscal year ending January 31, 2023.

Revenues for future periods will also include amounts related to customer contracts started or awarded subsequent to January 31, 2021. It is important to note that estimates may be changed in the future and that cancellations, deferrals, scope adjustments may occur related to work included in the amount of RUPO at January 31, 2021. Accordingly, RUPO may be adjusted to reflect project delays and cancellations, revisions to project scope and cost and foreign currency exchange fluctuations, or to revise estimates, as effects become known. Such adjustments may materially reduce future revenues below Company estimates.

Disaggregation of Revenues

The following table presents consolidated revenues for Fiscal 2021, Fiscal 2020 and Fiscal 2019, disaggregated by the geographic area where the corresponding projects were located:


		2021			2020			2019
United States		$	340,615		$	169,299		$	371,609
United Kingdom			37,836			49,028			81,319
Republic of Ireland			13,638			20,342			28,352
Other			117			328			873
Consolidated Revenues		$	392,206		$	238,997		$	482,153

Each year, the majority of consolidated revenues are recognized pursuant to fixed-price contracts with most of the remaining portions earned pursuant to time and material contracts. Consolidated revenues are disaggregated by reportable segment in Note 16 to the consolidated financial statements.