New Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued an accounting standards update which simplifies employee share-based payment accounting. This standard simplifies the income tax consequences, accounting for forfeitures and classification on the statement of cash flows. The standard requires that, prospectively, all tax effects related to share-based payments be made through the income statement at the time of settlement as opposed to excess tax benefits being recognized in additional paid-in-capital under the current guidance. The standard also removes the requirement to delay recognition of a tax benefit until it reduces current taxes payable. This change is required to be applied on a modified retrospective basis, with a cumulative-effect adjustment to opening retained earnings. Additionally, all tax related cash flows resulting from share-based payments are to be reported as operating activities on the statement of cash flows, a change from the current requirement to present tax benefits as an inflow from financing activities and an outflow from operating activities. Finally, entities will be allowed to withhold an amount up to the employees’ maximum individual tax rate (as opposed to the minimum statutory tax rate) in the relevant jurisdiction without resulting in liability classification of the award. The change in withholding requirements will be applied on a modified retrospective approach. This standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this standard effective for its first quarter of fiscal 2017. The impact of the early adoption resulted in the following:


•	The Company recorded a tax deficiency of $6 within income tax expense for the three months ended September 30, 2016 related to the tax shortfall on share based awards. Prior to adoption this amount would have been recorded as a decrease of capital in excess of par value. This change could create volatility in the Company's effective tax rate.


•	The Company no longer reflects the cash received from the excess tax benefit within cash flows from financing activities but instead now reflects this benefit within cash flows from operating activities in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The Company elected to apply this change in presentation prospectively and thus prior periods have not been adjusted.


•	The Company elected not to change its policy on accounting for forfeitures and continues to estimate the total number of awards for which the requisite service period will not be rendered.


•	The Company’s statutory withholding requirements have been updated to allow withholding up to the Company's maximum statutory withholding requirements in relevant jurisdictions.


•	The Company excluded the excess tax benefits from the assumed proceeds available to repurchase shares in the computation of our diluted earnings per share for the three months ended September 30, 2016. This increased diluted weighted average common shares outstanding by less than 24 shares for the period.

In February 2016, the FASB issued an accounting standards update which will replace most existing lease accounting guidance. This standard establishes a right-of-use model that requires a lessee to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than twelve months. Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement. This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that reporting period. This standard will be effective for the Company's fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019. Early adoption is permitted and should be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The Company is in the process of evaluating the potential impacts of this standard on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures, including potential early adoption.

In May 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standards update that replaces existing revenue recognition guidance. The updated guidance requires companies to recognize revenue in a way that depicts 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. In addition, the new standard requires that reporting companies disclose the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. In March 2016, the FASB further clarified the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations. The new standard will be effective for the Company's fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018. Early adoption is permitted under this standard for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and it is to be applied retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying it recognized at the date of initial application. The Company has not yet selected a transition method and is currently evaluating the effect the standard will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements.