Note 1. Description of the Business and Significant Accounting Policies

Description of the Business

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI), together with its subsidiaries (the company), is a domestic manufacturer of steel products and metals recycler. The company has three reportable segments: steel operations, metals recycling operations, and steel fabrication operations.

Steel Operations Segment. Steel operations include the company’s Butler Flat Roll Division, Columbus Flat Roll Division, The Techs galvanizing lines, Structural and Rail Division, Engineered Bar Products Division, Vulcan Threaded Products, Inc., Roanoke Bar Division, Steel of West Virginia, and Iron Dynamics, a liquid pig iron (scrap substitute) production facility that supplies solely the Butler Flat Roll Division. These operations include electric arc furnace steel mills, producing steel from ferrous scrap and scrap substitutes, utilizing continuous casting, automated rolling mills and numerous downstream coating and bar processing lines. Steel operations accounted for 74% and 73% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

Metals Recycling Operations Segment. Metals recycling operations consists solely of OmniSource Corporation (OmniSource), and includes both ferrous and nonferrous processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage, and consulting services. Metals recycling operations accounted for 15% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017.

Steel Fabrication Operations Segment. Steel fabrication operations include the company’s New Millennium Building Systems’ joist and deck plants located throughout the United States, and in Northern Mexico. Revenues from these plants are generated from the fabrication of trusses, girders, steel joists and steel deck used within the non-residential construction industry. Steel fabrication operations accounted for 8% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017.

Other. Other operations consists of subsidiary operations that are below the quantitative thresholds required for reportable segments and primarily consist of our Minnesota ironmaking operations that have been idle since May 2015, and other smaller joint ventures. Also included in “Other” are certain unallocated corporate accounts, such as the company’s senior secured credit facility, senior notes, certain other investments and certain profit sharing expenses.

Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of SDI, together with its wholly and majority-owned or controlled subsidiaries, after elimination of significant intercompany accounts and transactions. Noncontrolling interests represent the noncontrolling owner’s proportionate share in the equity, income, or losses of the company’s majority-owned or controlled consolidated subsidiaries.

Use of Estimates. These consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, and accordingly, include amounts that require management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and in the notes thereto. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include the carrying value of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, and goodwill; valuation allowances for trade receivables, inventories and deferred income tax assets; unrecognized tax benefits; potential environmental liabilities; and litigation claims and settlements. Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions.

In the opinion of management, these financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the interim period results. These consolidated financial statements and notes should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.

Note 1. Description of the Business and Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

Goodwill. The company’s goodwill is allocated to the following reporting units at March 31, 2018, and December 31, 2017, (in thousands):



	March 31,		December 31,
	2018		2017
Steel Operations Segment:
Columbus Flat Roll Division	$	19,682	$	19,682
The Techs		142,783		142,783
Vulcan Threaded Products		7,824		7,824
Roanoke Bar Division		29,041		29,041
Metals Recycling Operations Segment:
OmniSource		89,790		90,638
Indiana Steel Mills		95,000		95,000
Steel Fabrication Operations Segment		1,925		1,925
	$	386,045	$	386,893

OmniSource goodwill decreased $848,000 from December 31, 2017 to March 31, 2018, in recognition of the 2018 tax benefit related to the normal amortization of the component of OmniSource tax-deductible goodwill in excess of book goodwill.

Recently Adopted/Issued Accounting Standards

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, which is codified in ASC 606, Revenue Recognition – Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which amends the guidance in former ASC 605, Revenue Recognition. FASB later issued clarifying guidance in the form of ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Consideration (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contract with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, and ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients, collectively (ASC 606). The core principle of ASC 606 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASC 606 also requires additional disclosures to help users of financial statements better understand the nature, amount, timing, and potential uncertainty of revenue that is recognized. The company adopted ASC 606 effective January1, 2018 using the modified retrospective approach. There was no change in the amount or timing of revenue recognized under ASC 606, or significant changes required to the company’s functions, processes or systems. See Note 2 – Revenue from Contracts with Customers for disclosure required by ASC 606 and the updated accounting policy for revenue recognition.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230); which requires amounts generally described as restricted cash to be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the total beginning and ending amounts for the periods shown on the statement of cash flows. The company adopted the provisions of ASU 2016-18 as of January 1, 2018, retrospectively changed beginning and ending amounts reflected in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, to include restricted cash. The balance of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash in the consolidated statements of cash flows includes restricted cash of $5.6 million at March 31, 2018, $6.4 million at January 1, 2018, and $6.6 million at March 31, 2017, and January 1, 2017, which are recorded in Other Assets (noncurrent) in the company’s consolidated balance sheets.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842); which establishes a new lease accounting model that requires lessees to recognize a right of use asset and related lease liability for most leases having lease terms of more than 12 months (ASU 2016-02). This new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, but can be early adopted. The company is working through an adoption plan to evaluate the lease portfolio, systems, processes and policies to determine the impact of the provisions of ASU 2016-02 to our financial statements and disclosures. The company anticipates adopting ASU 2016-02 on January 1, 2019.