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Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") for interim financial information and applicable rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") regarding financial reporting. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. These interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures are unaudited and have been prepared on the same basis as the annual financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying financial statements contain all adjustments of a normal and recurring nature, necessary for a fair statement of the Company's financial position as of September 30, 2024, results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, and cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2023 was derived from audited annual financial statements but does not contain all of the footnote disclosures from the annual financial statements. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.

Certain information and disclosures normally included in consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted. Accordingly, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023 ("2023 Financial Statements") included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 1, 2024.

 

Interim results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2024.

Use of Estimates

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and disclosed in the accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates.

 

Significant estimates and assumptions which form the basis of amounts reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to, the identification of performance obligations in contracts with customers; standalone selling prices of the Company's performance obligations; timing of revenue recognition; fair value measurements; net realizable value of inventory; income taxes; and the fair value of intangible assets acquired in business combinations. The Company bases its estimates on current facts and circumstances, historical experience, forecasted results, and various other assumptions that it believes to be reasonable. The Company obtains reports from third-party valuation experts to inform and support estimates related to certain fair value measurements.

Restructuring and Related Charges

Restructuring and Related Charges

Restructuring and related charges include employee separation costs, contract termination costs, and other costs associated with implementing restructuring plans. Employee separation costs principally consist of one-time termination benefits and contractual

termination benefits for severance, other termination benefit costs, and stock-based compensation expense for the acceleration of equity awards.


The Company records restructuring charges based on whether the termination benefits are provided under an ongoing benefit arrangement or under a one-time benefit arrangement. The Company accounts for ongoing benefit arrangements, such as those documented by employment agreements, in accordance with ASC 712,
Compensation - Nonretirement Postemployment Benefits ("ASC 712"). Under ASC 712, liabilities for post-employment benefits are recorded at the time the obligations are probable of being incurred and can be reasonably estimated. The Company accounts for one-time employment benefit arrangements in accordance with ASC 420, Exit or Disposal Cost Obligations. One-time termination benefits expenses are recorded at the date the entity notifies the employee, unless the employee must provide future service, in which case the benefits are expensed ratably over the future service period. Other associated costs are recognized in the period in which the liability is incurred.

Fair Value Measurements

Fair Value Measurements

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. To increase the comparability of fair value measures, the following hierarchy prioritizes the inputs to valuation methodologies used to measure fair value:

Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 - Inputs, other than quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly.

Level 3 - Unobservable inputs that reflect the Company’s own assumptions incorporated into valuation techniques. These valuations require significant judgment.

In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. When there is more than one input at different levels within the hierarchy, the fair value is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires substantial judgment and consideration of factors specific to the asset or liability. Level 3 inputs are inherently difficult to estimate. Changes to these inputs can have significant impact on fair value measurements.

Business Combinations

Business Combinations

The Company accounts for business combinations using the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations ("ASC 805"). Application of this method of accounting requires that (i) identifiable assets acquired (including identifiable intangible assets) and liabilities assumed generally be measured and recognized at fair value as of the acquisition date and (ii) the excess of the purchase price over the net fair value of identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed be recognized as goodwill. When the fair value of net assets acquired and liabilities assumed exceeds the purchase price, the Company records a gain on bargain purchase in earnings in the period of acquisition. Determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination requires management to use significant judgment and estimates, especially with respect to intangible assets. Transaction costs, including legal, accounting, and integration expenses, are expensed as incurred and are included in operating expenses in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.

Software Development Costs

Software Development Costs

Internal-Use Software

The Company capitalizes certain internal and external costs related to the acquisition and development of internal-use software or cloud computing arrangements during the application development stages of projects. The costs incurred for development of software intended for internal use and cloud computing arrangements are capitalized in accordance with authoritative accounting guidance. These costs are included in property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

When the software is ready for its intended use, the Company amortizes these costs using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the asset, typically three years, or, for cloud computing service arrangements, over the term of the hosting arrangement. Costs incurred during the preliminary project or the post-implementation/operation stages of the project are expensed as incurred.

Software Developed for Sale

The costs incurred for the development of computer software to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed are capitalized in accordance with authoritative accounting guidance, when technological feasibility has been established. Technological feasibility generally occurs when all planning, design, coding and testing activities are completed that are necessary to establish that the product can be produced

to meet its design specifications, including functions, features and technical performance requirements. The establishment of technological feasibility is an ongoing assessment of judgment by management with respect to certain external factors, including, but not limited to, anticipated future revenues, estimated economic life and changes in technology.

Capitalized software costs include direct labor and related expenses for software development for new products. Capitalized software costs are included in other long-term assets in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Amortization of capitalized software development costs begins when the product is available for general release. Amortization is provided on a product-by-product basis using the straight-line method over periods of three years. Unamortized capitalized software development costs determined to be in excess of the net realizable value of the product are expensed immediately. Capitalized software costs are subject to an ongoing assessment of recoverability based on anticipated future revenues and changes in software technologies at each balance sheet date. In the event of impairment, unamortized capitalized software costs are compared to the net realizable value of the related product and the carrying value of the related assets are written down to the net realizable value to the extent the unamortized capitalized costs exceed such value. The net realizable value is the estimated future gross revenues from the related product reduced by the estimated future costs of completing and disposing of such product, including the costs of providing related maintenance and customer support.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition

Revenues are recognized when the Company's customers obtain control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for the products or services (the "transaction price"). Sales, value add, and other taxes collected concurrent with revenue-producing activities are excluded from revenue.

The Company's contracts with customers typically include multiple distinct products and services, and the Company allocates transaction price to these performance obligations based on their relative standalone selling prices ("SSP"). The SSP is determined at contract inception and is not updated to reflect changes between contract inception and when the performance obligations are satisfied. SSPs are generally determined using observable data from recent transactions. In cases where sufficient data is not available, the Company estimates a product’s SSP using a cost plus a margin approach.

Payment terms may vary by customer, are based on customary commercial terms, and are generally less than one year. The Company does not adjust revenue for the effects of a significant financing component for contracts where the period between the transfer of the good or service and collection is one year or less. The Company expenses incremental costs to obtain a contract when incurred since the amortization period of the asset that would otherwise be recognized is one year or less.

Product Revenue

The Company generates product revenue from the sale of instruments and consumables, including Integrated Fluidic Circuits and reagents. The Company generally recognizes product revenue at the point in time when control of the goods passes to the customer, and the Company has an enforceable right to payment. This generally occurs either when the product is shipped from one of the Company's facilities or when it arrives at the customer’s facility, based on the contractual terms. Customers do not have a unilateral right to return products after delivery. Invoices are generally issued at shipment or in advance of service and become due in 30 to 60 days.

Revenue from the sales of certain instruments that involve significant customization, which primarily includes sales of the SomaScan® equipment bundle, is recognized over time as the Company's performance creates an asset that the customer simultaneously controls (the instrument installation and customization occurs at the customer site). Revenue is recognized based on the progress made toward achieving the performance obligation utilizing an input method of costs incurred relative to total estimated costs.

The Company sometimes perform shipping and handling activities after control of the product passes to the customer. The Company has made an accounting policy election to account for these activities as product fulfillment activities rather than as separate performance obligations.

Services Revenue

The Company generates services revenue from the sale of lab services and field services. Lab services revenue is generated by performing the SomaScan® assay on customer samples to generate data on protein biomarkers. Lab services revenue is recognized at a point in time when the analysis data or report is delivered to the customer. SomaScan® services are sold at a fixed price per sample without any volume discounts, rebates, or refunds. The delivery of each assay data report is a separate performance obligation.

 

Field services revenue includes revenue from instrument service and support contracts. Revenue associated with these arrangements is recognized over time using a time-elapsed measure of progress, resulting in straight-line revenue recognition over the term of the agreement, which is generally one to four years. The Company measures progress using a time-elapsed measure of progress as the Company stands ready to provide service on demand throughout the term of the agreement. Invoices are generally issued in advance of service on a monthly, quarterly, annual or multi-year basis. Payments collected in advance of service are reported on the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheets as deferred revenue.

Collaboration and Other Revenue

From time to time the Company enters into collaboration arrangements in which both parties are active participants in the arrangement and are exposed to the significant risks and rewards of the collaboration, in which case the collaboration is within the scope of ASC 808, Collaborative Arrangements. With such collaborations, the Company determines if any obligations are an output of the Company's ordinary activities in exchange for consideration, and if so, the Company applies ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers ("ASC 606"), to such activities.

For other payments received from collaborative partners for other collaboration activities, which primarily include research and development activities, the Company analogizes to ASC 606. Revenue from such activities is recognized as the Company satisfies its obligations.

Other revenue consists of license and royalty revenue and grant revenue. The Company recognizes revenue from license agreements when the license is transferred to the customer and the customer is able to use and benefit from the license. For contracts that include sales-based royalties, the Company recognizes revenue at the later of (i) when the related sales occur, or (ii) when the performance obligation to which some or all of the royalty has been allocated has been satisfied.

The Company receives grants from various entities to perform research and development activities over contractually defined periods. Grant revenue is not accounted for under ASC 606, as the grant agreement is not with a customer. As there is no authoritative GAAP guidance for grants awarded to for-profit entities, the Company has applied the guidance in ASC 958, Not-for-Profit Entities by analogy. Revenue is generally recognized provided that the conditions under which the grants were provided have been met and any remaining performance obligations are perfunctory.

Warrant Liabilities

Warrant Liabilities

In connection with the merger described in Note 2, Business Combination, the Company assumed warrant liabilities for the warrants issued in connection with the initial public offering CM Life Sciences II Inc ("CMLS II"), the predecessor company of SomaLogic, Inc. ("SomaLogic"). CMLS II issued 5,519,991 warrants (the “Public Warrants”) to purchase shares of SomaLogic common stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("SomaLogic Common Stock"), at $11.50 per share. Simultaneously, with the consummation of the CMLS II initial public offering, CMLS II issued 5,013,333 warrants through a private placement (the “Private Placement Warrants”, and together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase shares of SomaLogic Common Stock at $11.50 per share. As of January 5, 2024 (the "Closing Date"), the Warrants converted into the right to receive, upon exercise of such Warrant, 1.11 shares of the Company's common stock for each share of SomaLogic Common Stock previously underlying the Warrants. The Public Warrants are no longer publicly traded and are now identical to the Private Placement Warrants.

The Warrants are classified as liabilities on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2024 as these instruments are precluded from being indexed to the Company's own stock given that the terms allow for a settlement adjustment that does not meet the scope for the fixed-for-fixed exception in ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging. Since the Warrants meet the definition of a derivative under ASC 815-40, the Company recorded these warrants as long-term liabilities at fair value as of the Closing Date, with subsequent changes in fair value recognized within other income (expense), net in the condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024.

Segment Reporting

Segment Reporting

The Company manages its business through two reportable operating segments: proteomics and genomics. Segment information is consistent with how management reviews the business, makes investing and resource allocation decisions and assesses performance. The Company's chief operating decision maker ("CODM"), its chief executive officer, assesses performance of operating segments and determines the allocation of resources based primarily on segment operating loss.

Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting - Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, which requires disclosure of more detailed information about a reportable segment’s expenses. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The amendments must be applied retrospectively, and early adoption is permitted. The Company expects to adopt ASU 2023-07 in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and expects to include additional segment disclosures as a result of adoption.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires disaggregation of rate reconciliation categories and income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The amendments may be applied prospectively or retrospectively, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adoption on its income tax disclosures; however, adoption will not impact the Company's results of operations.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The new standard requires additional disclosure of the nature of the expenses included in the income statement, including disaggregation of the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement into specific categories. ASU 2024-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, with early adoption permitted, and may be applied retrospectively or prospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on its financial statement disclosures.