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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Basis of Accounting, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Interim Financial Statements

The accompanying interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Pursuant to Regulation S-X, certain information and disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements have been condensed or omitted. The interim consolidated financial statements and notes included herein should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC on February 22, 2019.

Motor Fuel and Sales Taxes

For bulk sales, certain motor fuel and sales taxes are collected from customers and remitted to governmental agencies either directly by the Partnership or through suppliers. The Partnership’s accounting policy for direct sales to dealer and commercial customers is to exclude the collected motor fuel tax from sales and cost of sales.

For other locations where the Partnership holds inventory, including commission agent arrangements and Partnership-operated retail locations, motor fuel sales and motor fuel cost of sales include motor fuel taxes. Such amounts were $101 million and $97 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $295 million and $280 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Merchandise sales and cost of merchandise sales are reported net of sales tax in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss).

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Change in Accounting Principle

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which amends the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and creates Topic 842, Leases. On January 1, 2019, we adopted ASC Topic 842, which is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2018. This Topic requires balance sheet recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities for leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. Under the standard, disclosures are required to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases.

The Partnership elected the modified retrospective approach to adopt Topic 842. This approach involves recognition of an opening cumulative catch-up adjustment to the balance sheet in the period of adoption, January 1, 2019. We have completed a detailed review of contracts representative of our business and assessed the terms under the new standard. Adoption of the standard had a material impact on our consolidated balance sheet, but did not have a material impact on our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income or consolidated cash flows. The most significant impact was the recognition of right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities for operating leases, while our accounting for finance leases remained substantially unchanged.

As a result of the evaluation performed, we have recorded adjustments resulting in a net increase to assets and liabilities of approximately $547 million as of January 1, 2019. In addition to the evaluation performed, we have made appropriate design and implementation updates to our business processes, systems, and internal controls to support the on-going reporting requirements under the new standard.

Topic 842 provides for certain practical expedients that companies can elect to apply for purposes of adoption and implementation of the new standard. The practical expedients utilized by the Partnership are as follows: 1) no reassessment of whether existing contracts contain a lease, 2) no reassessment of the classification of existing leases, 3) no reassessment of initial direct costs for existing leases, 4) exclusion of leases with terms of 12 months or less from evaluation, 5) use of the portfolio approach to determine discount rates, 6) election to not separate non-lease components from lease components in existing lease agreements, and 7) election to not apply the use of hindsight to the active lease population.

The cumulative effect of the changes made to our consolidated January 1, 2019 balance sheet for the adoption of ASU No. 2016-02 was as follows:



Classification	Balance at December 31, 2018		Adjustments Due to Topic 842			Balance at January 1, 2019
	(in millions)
Assets
Property and equipment, net	$	1,546	$	(1	)	$	1,545
Lease right-of-use assets	—		548			548
Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	299		(1		)	298
Current maturities of long term debt	5		1			6
Operating lease current liabilities	—		25			25
Long term debt, net	2,280		6			2,286
Operating lease non-current liabilities	—		528			528
Other non-current liabilities	123		(12		)	111

Significant Accounting Policies

As of September 30, 2019, the only material change in the Partnership’s significant accounting policies, as compared to those described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, was the adoption of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), described under Change in Accounting Principle.

Lessee, Leases [Policy Text Block]

Change in Accounting Principle