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New Accounting Standards (Policies)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
New Accounting Standards  
Reclassification

Reclassification

As disclosed within other notes to the financial statements, segment information reported in the Company’s prior year periods has been reclassified to conform with the 2023 presentation.

New Accounting Pronouncements

2. NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND RECLASSIFICATIONS

Accounting Standards Adopted

Clawback of Executive Compensation Rules.  In October 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final rules regarding the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based executive compensation. The rules direct U.S. securities exchanges to establish standards to require listed issuers to develop and implement a written policy providing for the recovery of incentive-based compensation received by current and former executive officers in the event of a required accounting restatement when that compensation was based on an erroneously reported financial reporting measure.  The new rule and related amendments include a number of new disclosure requirements, including requiring issuers to file their recovery policy as an exhibit to their annual reports and establishing new cover page disclosures on Form 10-K indicating whether the financial statements included in the filing reflect the correction of an error and whether the error correction required an incentive-based compensation recovery analysis.  The exchanges must file proposed listing standards to implement the SEC’s directive no later than February 26, 2023 (which is 90 days after the final rules were published in the Federal Register), and those listing standards must be effective no later than November 28, 2023. Affected issuers will be required to adopt a recovery policy no later than 60 days after the listing standards become effective. The Company adopted the new rules as required.

Accounting Standards Pending Adoption

Disclosure of Significant Segment Expenses and Other Segment Items.  In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) amended its existing guidance for segment reporting to require a public entity to disclose significant segment expenses and other segment items on an annual and interim basis and to provide in interim periods all disclosures about a reportable segment’s profit or loss and assets that are currently required annually.  The amended guidance does not change how a public entity identifies its operating segments, aggregates them or applies the quantitative thresholds to determine its reportable segments.  The guidance is applied retrospectively to all periods presented in financial statements, unless it is impracticable.  The guidance applies to all public entities and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2024.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

Additional Income Tax Disclosures.  In December 2023, the FASB issued a final standard on improvements to income tax disclosures.  The standard requires public business entities to disclose in their rate reconciliation table additional categories of information about federal, state and foreign income taxes and to provide more details about the reconciling items in some categories if the items meet a quantitative threshold.  The guidance also requires all entities to disclose annually income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by federal (national), state and foreign taxes and to disaggregate the information by jurisdiction based on a quantitative threshold.  The standard applies to all entities subject

to income taxes.  For public business entities, the new requirements will be effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.  The guidance will be applied on a prospective basis with the option to apply the standard retrospectively.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.