RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

22. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers – Issued May 2014, was scheduled to be effective for Syntel beginning January 1, 2017, however on July, 9 2015, the FASB approved the proposal to defer the effective date of the ASU for public companies to January 1, 2018 with an option to elect to adopt the ASU as of original effective date. The new standard is intended to substantially enhance the quality and consistency of how revenue is reported while also improving the comparability of the financial statements of companies using U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and those using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is that a company 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.

The new guidance also addresses the accounting for some costs to obtain or fulfill a customer contract and provides a set of disclosure requirements intended to give financial statement users comprehensive information about the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenues and cash flows arising from customer contracts. The requirements of this ASU and its impact on the Company are being evaluated.

ASU 2015-05, Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement (Subtopic 350-40) Issued April 2015; will be effective for Syntel beginning January 1, 2016 with early adoption permitted. This ASU provides guidance to help entities in evaluating the accounting for fees paid by a customer in a cloud computing arrangement.

The new guidelines provide guidance on, how customers should evaluate whether such arrangements contain a software license that should be accounted for separately. Customers will need to apply the same criteria as vendors to determine whether the arrangement contains a software license or is solely a service contract. The requirements of this ASU and its impact on the Company are being evaluated.

ASU 2015-01, Income Statement – Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20), Issued January 2015; will be effective for Syntel beginning January 1, 2016. The new standard is to simplify the income statement presentation requirements by eliminating the concept of extraordinary items from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and also improving the comparability of the financial statements of companies using GAAP and those using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

The new guidance also addresses, transactions that are both unusual in nature and infrequently occurring which should be presented within income from continuing operations or disclosed in notes to financial statements because those items satisfy the conditions for an item that is unusual in nature or infrequently occurring. The adoption of Accounting Standards Update 2015-01 will not have any significant impact on the Company’s financial statement presentation or disclosures.

In April 2015, the FASB issued a standard related to the presentation of debt issuance costs. The standard requires debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability to be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying value of that debt liability. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by this standard. The amendment is effective on a retrospective basis for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning on or after January 1, 2016. The adoption of this standard will affect financial statement presentation only and is expected to have no effect on our financial condition or results of operations.