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DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Policies) | 9 Months Ended
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DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION |
Description of the Business | Description of the Business Argan, Inc. (“Argan”) conducts operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Gemma Power Systems, LLC and affiliates (“GPS”); The Roberts Company, Inc. (“TRC”); Atlantic Projects Company Limited and affiliates (“APC”) and Southern Maryland Cable, Inc. (“SMC”). Argan and these consolidated subsidiaries are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Company.” Through GPS and APC, the Company provides a full range of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations management, maintenance, project development, technical and other consulting services to the power generation market, including the renewable energy sector. The wide range of customers includes independent power producers, public utilities, power plant equipment suppliers and global energy plant construction firms with projects located in the United States (the “US”), the Republic of Ireland (“Ireland”) and the United Kingdom (the “UK”). Including a consolidated variable interest entity (“VIE”), GPS and APC represent the Company’s power industry services reportable segment. Through TRC, the industrial fabrication and field services reportable segment provides on-site services that support maintenance turnarounds, shutdowns and emergency mobilizations for industrial plants primarily located in the southeastern region of the US and that are based on its expertise in producing, delivering and installing fabricated metal components such as piping systems and pressure vessels. Through SMC, which conducts business as SMC Infrastructure Solutions, the telecommunications infrastructure services segment provides project management, construction, installation and maintenance services to commercial, local government and federal government customers primarily in the mid-Atlantic region of the US.
Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies | Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Argan, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and its financially controlled VIE. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. In Note 14, the Company has provided certain financial information relating to the operating results and assets of its reportable segments based on the manner in which management disaggregates the Company’s financial reporting for purposes of making internal operating decisions. The Company’s fiscal year ends on January 31 of each year. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of October 31, 2021, the condensed consolidated statements of earnings and stockholders’ equity for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2021 and 2020, and the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended October 31, 2021 and 2020 are unaudited. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2021 has been derived from audited financial statements. These condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Certain information and note disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to those rules and regulations, although the Company believes that the disclosures made are adequate to make the information not misleading. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements and notes should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements, the notes thereto, and the independent registered public accounting firm’s report thereon, that are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2021 (“Fiscal 2021”). In the opinion of management, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments, which are of a normal and recurring nature, considered necessary to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of October 31, 2021, and its earnings and cash flows for the interim periods presented. The results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations for any other interim period or for a full fiscal year.
Income Taxes | Income Taxes In December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2019-12, Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which, among other changes, eliminates the exception to the general methodology for calculating income taxes in an interim period when a year-to-date loss exceeds the expected loss for the entire year. In these instances, the estimated annual effective income tax rate shall be used to calculate the tax without limitation. The new standard also requires the recognition of a franchise (or similar) tax that is partially based on income as an income-based tax and the recording of any incremental tax that is incurred by the Company as a non-income based tax. The Company’s adoption of this new guidance, which was effective on February 1, 2021, did not alter the Company’s accounting for income taxes. There are no other recently issued accounting pronouncements that have not yet been adopted that the Company considers material to its condensed consolidated financial statements.
Fair Values | Fair Values The carrying value amounts presented in the condensed consolidated balance sheets for the Company’s current assets, which primarily include cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, accounts receivable and contract assets, and its current liabilities are reasonable estimates of their fair values due to the short-term nature of these items.
Variable Interest Entity | Variable Interest Entity In January 2018, the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of a VIE that is performing the project development activities related to the planned construction of a new natural gas-fired power plant. Consequently, the account balances of the VIE are included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements, including development costs incurred by the VIE during the project development period. The total amount of the project development costs included in the balances for property, plant and equipment as of October 31, 2021 and January 31, 2021 was $7.5 million at both dates. Consideration for the Company’s engineering and financial support provided to the project includes the right to build the power plant pursuant to a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) services contract that has been negotiated and announced. Currently, the most significant project development hurdle for the project owner is the establishment of a fuel-supply source for the plant. The understanding of GPS is that there are viable gas supply alternatives under development by the project owner and others. Recovery of the Company’s investment in this project will depend on the successful completion of all project development efforts, which should lead to the arrangement of financing for the construction of the corresponding power plant, or the sale of the project. As currently contemplated, such financing or sale would provide cash flow sufficient for the project developer to repay the funds borrowed from GPS in full. Such repayment would represent a full recovery of GPS’s investment in the project.

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