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Variable Interest Entity

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Variable Interest Entity [Abstract]

Variable Interest Entity

Note 13—Variable Interest Entity

Citizens Choice Energy, LLC (“CCE”), is a REP that resells electricity and natural gas to residential and small business customers in the State of New York. The Company does not own any interest in CCE. Since 2011, the Company has provided CCE with substantially all of the cash required to fund its operations. The Company determined that it has the power to direct the activities of CCE that most significantly impact its economic performance and it has the obligation to absorb losses of CCE that could potentially be significant to CCE on a stand-alone basis. The Company therefore determined that it is the primary beneficiary of CCE, and as a result, the Company consolidates CCE within its GRE segment. The net income or loss incurred by CCE was attributed to noncontrolling interests in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

The Company has an option to purchase 100% of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of CCE for one dollar plus the forgiveness of $0.5 million that the Company loaned to CCE in October 2015. The option expires on October 22, 2023.

Net loss related to CCE and aggregate net funding provided by the Company were as follows:

		Three Months Ended June 30,								Six Months Ended June 30,
		2020				2019				2020				2019
		(in thousands)								(in thousands)
Net loss		$	(411)			$	(215)			$	(748)			$	(66)
Aggregate funding provided by the Company, net		$	(282)			$	(183)			$	(522)			$	(816)

Summarized combined balance sheet amounts related to CCE was as follows:

		June 30, 2020				December 31, 2019
		(in thousands)
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents		$	260			$	250
Trade accounts receivable			339				586
Prepaid expenses and other current assets			378				381
Other assets			359				359
Total assets		$	1,336			$	1,576
Liabilities and noncontrolling interests
Current liabilities		$	453			$	467
Due to IDT Energy			3,120				2,598
Noncontrolling interests			(2,237	)			(1,489	)
Total liabilities and noncontrolling interests		$	1,336			$	1,576

The assets of CCE may only be used to settle obligations of CCE, and may not be used for other consolidated entities. The liabilities of CCE are non-recourse to the general credit of the Company’s other consolidated entities.

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The entire disclosure for a variable interest entity (VIE), including but not limited to, judgments and assumptions in determining whether to consolidate and in identifying the primary beneficiary, gain (loss) recognized on the initial consolidation of the VIE, terms of arrangements, amounts and classification of the VIE's assets and liabilities, and the entity's maximum exposure to loss.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2197479

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