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Note 12 - Fair Value of Financial Instruments
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Fair Value Disclosures [Text Block]

12.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The carrying values of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents, trade accounts receivable and trade accounts payable and short-term debt approximate their fair values because of the short maturities of those instruments. The fair value of the Company’s long-term debt approximates its carrying value and is based on the amount of future cash flows associated with the debt discounted using current borrowing rates for similar debt instruments of comparable maturity.

 

Fair value measurement is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. A fair value hierarchy is established, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value into three broad levels as follows:

 

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

 

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

 

Level 3—Unobservable inputs based on the Company’s own assumptions.

 

The following tables present the fair value hierarchy for those assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

 

  

Fair Value as of September 30, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

  

Level 2

  

Level 3

  

Total

 

Assets (Liabilities):

                

Interest rate swap agreements

 $-  $(569) $-  $(569)

 

  

Fair Value as of December 31, 2019

 
  

Level 1

  

Level 2

  

Level 3

  

Total

 

Assets (Liabilities):

                

Interest rate swap agreements

 $-  $(603) $-  $(603)

 

The Company uses the market approach technique to value its financial liabilities. The Company’s financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value include derivative instruments used to hedge the Company’s interest rate risks. The fair value of the Company’s interest rate swap agreements was based on LIBOR yield curves at the reporting date.