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New Accounting Guidance
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
New Accounting Guidance  
New Accounting Guidance

2.           New Accounting Guidance

Accounting Guidance Adopted During Fiscal Year 2018

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers.”  This ASU requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers.  This standard also specifies the accounting for certain costs to obtain or fulfill a contract with a customer.  The Company applied the five-step method detailed in this ASU to all revenue streams and elected the cumulative effect approach.  The implementation of this ASU did not have a material impact on the measurement or recognition of revenue from prior periods. See Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Note 3 – Revenue Recognition, for additional accounting policy information and the additional disclosures required by this ASU.

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2016-01, “Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities.” This ASU provided updated guidance on the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of certain financial assets and financial liabilities. After January 1, 2018, the guidance requires substantially all equity investments in non-consolidated entities to be measured at fair value with changes recognized in earnings, except for those accounted for using the equity method of accounting. As such, the guidance eliminated the available for sale investment category for equity securities, which required unrealized holding gains to be recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income. Upon adoption, we reclassified net unrealized holding gains, net of taxes, related to our available for sale investment portfolio from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings. See consolidated statement of stockholders’ equity and redeemable noncontrolling interests for the financial statement reclassification impact of adopting this ASU.

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2016-15, “Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments.”  This ASU eliminated the diversity in practice related to the classification of certain cash receipts and payments for debt prepayment or extinguishment costs, the maturing of a zero coupon bond, the settlement of contingent liabilities arising from a business combination, proceeds from insurance settlements, distributions from certain equity method investees and beneficial interests obtained in a financial asset securitization. This ASU designates the appropriate cash flow classification, including requirements to allocate certain components of these cash receipts and payments among operating, investing and financing activities. The adoption of this ASU did not impact our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. 

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2016-18, “Statement of Cash Flows: Restricted Cash.” This ASU is intended to reduce diversity in practice by adding or clarifying guidance on classification and presentation of changes in restricted cash on the statement of cash flows. The amendments in this ASU required that a statement of cash flows include the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents, and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents – restricted is included as a component of cash and cash equivalents on the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows for all periods presented.

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2017-07, “Compensation-Retirement Benefits: Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost.”  This ASU changed the income statement presentation of our noncontributory retirement plan that covers substantially all employees and certain vested employees of our former parent company (the “Pension Plan”) by requiring separation between operating expense (service cost component) and non-operating expense (all other components, including interest cost, amortization of prior service cost, curtailments and settlements, etc.). In addition, only the service cost component is eligible for capitalization as part of an asset. The adoption of this ASU had no effect on our net income because it only impacts the classification of certain information on the consolidated statements of income. An amendment to freeze our noncontributory retirement plan that covers substantially all employees and certain vested employees of our former parent company was approved effective September 30, 2017; therefore, after September 30, 2017, we no longer incur service costs. The service cost component of net periodic benefit cost is recognized in compensation and related costs through September 30, 2017. The other components of net periodic cost were reclassified to investment and other income (loss) on a retrospective basis. 

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2017-09, “Compensation-Stock Compensation: Scope of Modification Accounting.”  This ASU provided guidance about which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require an entity to apply modification accounting in Topic 718, “Compensation – Stock Compensation Topic.”  The adoption of this ASU had an immaterial impact our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

On January 1, 2018, the Company early adopted ASU 2018-02, “Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income.” This ASU allows entities to reclassify stranded tax effects attributable to the Tax Reform Act from accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”) to retained earnings. Tax effects that are stranded in other comprehensive income for reasons unrelated to the Tax Reform Act, such as other changes in tax law, will be reclassified in future periods in accordance with the Company’s policy. Under the policy, the Company releases stranded income tax effects on available for sale securities on a security-by-security basis as securities are sold, matured, or extinguished. For the post retirement plan, the Company will release stranded income tax effects when the entire plan is liquidated or terminated. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. See consolidated statement of stockholders’ equity for the financial statement reclassification impact of adopting this ASU.

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2018-05, “Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118.” This ASU updates the income tax accounting in U.S. GAAP to reflect SEC interpretive guidance released on December 22, 2017 when the Tax Reform Act became law. Staff Accountant Bulletin No. 118 states the SEC permits companies to use “reasonable estimates” and “provisional amounts” for some of their line items for taxes for their fourth quarter and year-end 2017 financial statements and regulatory filings. The Company has applied this guidance to its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. See Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies for additional information on the adoption of this ASU.

During the fourth quarter of 2018, the company early adopted ASU 2018-14, Compensation – Retirement Benefits – Defined Benefit Plans – General (Subtopic 715-20): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans, which removes certain disclosures that are not considered cost beneficial, clarifies certain required disclosures and adds additional disclosures.  See Note 10 – Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pension for updated disclosures as a result of the adoption of this ASU.

New Accounting Guidance Not Yet Adopted

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2016-02, Leases, which increases transparency and comparability among organizations by establishing a right-of-use model that requires a lessee to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet with additional disclosures of key information about leasing arrangements.  The new standard, and related ASUs, are effective for us on January 1, 2019, with early adoption permitted.  A modified retrospective transition approach is required, applying the new standard to all leases existing at the date of initial application. An entity may choose to use either (1) its effective date or (2) the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements as its date of initial application. We expect to adopt the new standard on January 1, 2019 and use the effective date as our date of initial application. Consequently, financial information will not be updated and the disclosures required under the new standard will not be provided for dates and periods before January 1, 2019. The new standard provides a number of optional practical expedients in transition. We expect to elect all of the new standard’s available transition practical expedients.  We expect that this ASU will have a material effect on our financial statements. While we continue to assess all of the effects of adoption, we currently believe the most significant effects relate to the recognition of new right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on our balance sheet for our real estate and equipment leases ranging from $35.0-45.0 million and the addition of significant new disclosures about our leasing activities. The new standard also provides practical expedients for an entity’s ongoing accounting.   We currently expect to elect the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. This means, for those leases that qualify, we will not recognize right-of-use assets or lease liabilities, and this includes not recognizing right-of-use assets or lease liabilities for existing short-term leases of those assets in transition.

In June 2018, FASB issued ASU 2018-07, Compensation – Stock Compensation: Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which simplifies the accounting for share–based payments granted to nonemployees by aligning the accounting with the requirements for employee share–based compensation. This ASU is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company will adopt the provisions of this guidance on January 1, 2019. We have concluded that the adoption of this ASU will have an immaterial impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. 

In August 2018, FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement, which eliminates certain disclosure requirements for fair value measurements, requires entities to disclose new information, and modifies existing disclosure requirements. This ASU is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. Upon adoption of this ASU, disclosure changes will be reflected in our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. 

In August 2018, FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service Contract, which aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software (and hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license). This ASU is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We are evaluating the impact the adoption of this ASU will have on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.