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Accounting policies (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Accounting policies

Schedule of Disaggregation of revenue

The following table presents the Company’s revenue disaggregated by revenue source (unaudited).

		Three Months Ended March 31,
		2020			2019
Retail revenue		$	7,257,432		$	6,686,660
Bulk revenue			6,440,284			7,111,313
Services revenue			3,114,813			100,577
Manufacturing revenue			3,913,192			3,089,974
Total revenue		$	20,725,721		$	16,988,524

Summary of revenue recognized and amounts billed on services segment and manufacturing segment contracts in progress

Revenue recognized and amounts billed on services segment and manufacturing segment contracts in progress are summarized as follows:

		March 31,			December 31,
		2020			2019
Revenues recognized to date on contracts in progress		$	20,029,321		$	24,041,993
Amounts billed to date on contracts in progress			(18,964,689)			(22,980,598)
		$	1,064,632		$	1,061,395

Summary of net balances of billings reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet

The above net balances are reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as follows:

		March 31,			December 31,
		2020			2019
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings		$	1,968,324		$	1,675,781
Billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings			(903,692)			(614,386)
		$	1,064,632		$	1,061,395

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