The Company early adopted ASU 2016-09 on a prospective basis, related to the recognition of excess tax benefits to the income statement which were previously recorded in additional paid-in capital, effective January 1, 2016. This resulted in an additional 404,347 diluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the three months ended March 31, 2016, and recognition of excess tax benefits of $9.6 million in net earnings from continuing operations, and $1.0 million in net earnings from discontinued operations for the three months ended March 31, 2016. As a result, continuing operations net earnings per common share increased by $0.05 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Refer to Note 2, “Recently Issued Accounting Standards” of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further details.

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Amount of tax expense (benefit) related to a discontinued operation. Includes, but is not limited to, tax expense (benefit) related to income (loss) from operations during the phase-out period, tax expense (benefit) related to gain (loss) on disposal, tax expense (benefit) related to gain (loss) for reversal of write-down (write-down) to fair value, less cost to sell, and tax expense (benefit) related to adjustments of a prior period gain (loss) on disposal.

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