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Recently issued accounting pronouncements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Recently issued accounting pronouncements

3. Recently issued accounting pronouncements

The Company evaluates the pronouncements of authoritative accounting organizations, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), to determine the impact of new pronouncements on GAAP and the Company. In May of 2014, the FASB and International Accounting Standards Board jointly issued a final standard on revenue recognition which outlines a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. This standard will supersede most current revenue recognition guidance. Under the new standard, entities are required to identify the following within a contract with a customer: the separate performance obligations in the contract; the transaction price; allocation of the transaction price to the separate performance obligations in the contract; and the appropriate amount of revenue to be recognized when (or as) the entity satisfies each performance obligation. Entities have the option of using either retrospective transition or a modified approach in applying the new standard. On July 9, 2015, the FASB voted to issue a final Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that defers for one year the effective date of the new revenue standard and allows early adoption as of the original effective date (i.e., annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim reporting periods within those annual periods). After reviewing and discussing the feedback received, the Board decided to adopt the standard as originally proposed. Thus, the anticipated final ASU will be effective for annual reporting periods (including interim reporting periods within those periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the approach it will use to apply the new standard and the impact that the adoption of the new standard will have on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

In April of 2015, the FASB issued guidance to simplify the presentation of debt issuance costs. This new guidance requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. Although the standard is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal years, the Company chose to early adopt this guidance as of June 30, 2015, and has therefore presented the debt issuance costs associated with the issuance of its 5.5% Senior Notes as a direct deduction from the carrying value of the liability as of September 30, 2015. Refer to Note 9, “Debt” for further details related to the issuance of the Company’s 5.5% Senior Notes.

There were no additional new accounting pronouncements or guidance that have been issued or adopted by authoritative accounting organizations during the three months ended September 30, 2015, that are expected to have a significant effect on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.