Short Term Investments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]

Short Term Investments

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

The Company's investments consist of marketable debt securities that are classified as available-for-sale and presented as "Short-term investments," a component of current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. The Company's available-for-sale securities represent investments available for current operations and may be sold prior to their stated maturities for strategic or operational reasons. The available-for-sale debt securities are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses reported in "Accumulated other comprehensive loss." The amortized cost of the available-for-sale debt securities is adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts to maturity computed under the effective interest method. Such amortization is netted against the related interest income and both are included in "Interest (expense) / income and other, net" in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Realized gains and losses are classified as other income or expense and included in "Interest (expense) / income and other, net" in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method.

As of December 31, 2014 and 2013 the Company's amortized cost of its available-for-sale securities approximated fair value. Gross unrealized losses were $(0.03) million as of December 31, 2014, with gross unrealized gains that were insignificant. As of December 31, 2013, gross unrealized losses of $(0.5) million were partially offset by gross unrealized gains of $0.03 million. The Company considered the declines in market value of its marketable available-for-sale securities investment portfolio to be temporary in nature and did not consider any of its investments other-than-temporarily impaired as of December 31, 2014 and 2013. Contractual maturities for the Company's available-for-sale securities are generally within two years of December 31, 2014.

For the year ended December 31, 2014, the gross realized gains and losses on sales of available-for-sale marketable securities were $0.04 million and $(0.5) million, respectively, including gains reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss of $0.03 million, with losses that were insignificant. See Note 5, Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss, for further information.