Note 5 - Fair Value Consideration |
12 Months Ended | ||||||||||||
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Dec. 31, 2017 | |||||||||||||
Notes to Financial Statements | |||||||||||||
Fair Value Disclosures [Text Block] |
The Company’s financial instruments include cash, restricted cash, accounts receivable, notes receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and notes payable. The carrying amounts of its financial instruments approximate their fair value due to their short maturities. The Company does not use derivative financial instruments to hedge exposures to cash-flow, market or foreign-currency risks.Authoritative guidance defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The guidance establishes a hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value that maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs by requiring that the most observable inputs be used when available. Observable inputs are inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s assumptions of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. The hierarchy is broken down into three levels based on reliability of the inputs as follows:
As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company does not 1, 2 or 3.
As of
December 31, 2016, the Company had non-recurring fair value measurements. As a result of the sale of certain clinics subsequent to year end, the Company recorded the assets at the lesser of their carrying values and their fair value less costs to sell, which resulted in a write-down of approximately $3.5 million. The inputs used to determine such fair values were based on the offer price provided by a third -party in connection with the sale, and are classified within Level 3 in the hierarchy. |