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Vessel, net is stated at cost, which was adjusted to fair value, less accumulated depreciation. Vessel is depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, determined to be 25 years from date of initial delivery from the shipyard. The vessel is depreciated at the lesser of the asset economic life or the term of the lease. Our leased vessel is depreciated over 5 years, which is its remaining useful life at the date of acquisition. If regulations place limitations over the ability of a vessel to trade on a worldwide basis, its remaining useful life would be adjusted, if necessary, at the date such regulations are adopted. Depreciation is based on cost, which was adjusted to fair value, less the estimated residual scrap value. Depreciation expense of vessel assets for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 totaled $18,235 and $0 respectively. Table below includes the Cost of the vessel acquired in February 2016 (see Note 3 below).


In January 2016, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.2016-01, “Financial Instruments - Overall (Subtopic 825-10),in order to address certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments. The amendments in this Update make targeted improvements to GAAP as follows: 1. Require equity investments (except those accounted for under the equity method of accounting or those that result in consolidation of the investee) to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. However, an entity may choose to measure equity investments that do not have readily determinable fair values at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer. 2. Simplify the impairment assessment of equity investments without readily determinable fair values by requiring a qualitative assessment to identify impairment. When a qualitative assessment indicates that impairment exists, an entity is required to measure the investment at fair value. 3. Eliminate the requirement to disclose the fair value of financial instruments measured at amortized cost for entities that are not public business entities. 4. Eliminate the requirement for public business entities to disclose the method(s) and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value that is required to be disclosed for financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet. 5. Require public business entities to use the exit price notion when measuring the fair value of financial instruments for disclosure purposes. 6. Require an entity to present separately in other comprehensive income the portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability resulting from a change in the instrument-specific credit risk when the entity has elected to measure the liability at fair value in accordance with the fair value option for financial instruments. 7. Require separate presentation of financial assets and financial liabilities by measurement category and form of financial asset (that is, securities or loans and receivables) on the balance sheet or the accompanying notes to the financial statements. 8. Clarify that an entity should evaluate the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available-for-sale securities in combination with the entity’s other deferred tax assets. We are currently reviewing the provisions of this ASU to determine if there will be any impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial condition.


In February 2016, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842)” in order to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. To meet that objective, the FASB is amending the FASB Accounting Standards Codification® and creating Topic 842, Leases. This Update, along with IFRS 16, Leases, is the result of the FASB’s and the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) efforts to meet that objective and improve financial reporting. Leasing is utilized by many entities. It is a means of gaining access to assets, of obtaining financing, and/or of reducing an entity’s exposure to the full risks of asset ownership. The prevalence of leasing, therefore, means that it is important that users of financial statements have a complete and understandable picture of an entity’s leasing activities. Previous leases accounting was criticized for failing to meet the needs of users of financial statements because it did not always provide a faithful representation of leasing transactions. In particular, it did not require lessees to recognize assets and liabilities arising from operating leases on the balance sheet. As a result, there had been long-standing requests from many users of financial statements and others to change the accounting requirements so that lessees would be required to recognize the rights and obligations resulting from leases as assets and liabilities. We are currently reviewing the provisions of this ASU to determine if there will be any impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial condition.


We calculate time charter equivalent, or “TCE,” rates by dividing net voyage revenue by total operating days for fleet for the relevant time period. Total operating days for fleet are the total number of days our vessel is in our possession for the relevant period net of off hire days associated with major repairs, drydocking or special or intermediate surveys. We also generate demurrage revenue, which represents fees charged to charterers associated with our spot market voyages when the charterer exceeds the agreed upon time required to load or discharge a cargo. We calculate daily DVOE (as hereinafter defined) and daily general and administrative expenses for the relevant period by dividing the total expenses by the aggregate number of calendar days that the vessel is in our possession for the period including offhire days associated with major repairs, drydocking or special or intermediate surveys.


Our management, including our CEO and CFO, does not expect that our Disclosure Controls and internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management or board override of the control.