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Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
New Accounting Pronouncements And Changes In Accounting Principles [Abstract]  
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

N.Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

In August 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows – (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments” (“ASU 2016-15”). ASU 2016-15 addresses eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice. ASU 2016-15 is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017.  Early application is permitted.  The Company is currently evaluating the potential effect of ASU 2016-15 on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, "Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share–Based Payment Accounting" ("ASU 2016-09"). ASU 2016-9 simplifies the accounting for share–based payment award transactions including: income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities and classification on the statement of cash flows. The adoption of ASU 2016–09 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016–02, "Leases (Topic 842)" (“ASU 2016-02”). The objective of this update is to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those annual periods and is to be applied utilizing a modified retrospective approach. The Company does not expect this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements because there are no material operating leases.

 

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, "Financial Instruments – Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (Topic 825)" ("ASU 2016-01"). ASU 2016-01 revises the classification and measurement of investments in certain equity investments and the presentation of certain fair value changes for certain financial liabilities measured at fair value.  ASU No. 2016-01 requires the change in fair value of many equity investments to be recognized in net income.  ASU 2016-01 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted.   Adopting ASU 2016-01 may result in a cumulative effect adjustment to the Company's retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption.  The Company is currently evaluating the potential effects of adopting the provisions of ASU 2016-01.

 

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-17 "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes" (ASU 2015-17”) which simplifies the presentation of deferred income taxes. Under the new accounting standard, deferred tax assets and liabilities are required to be classified as noncurrent, eliminating the prior requirement to separate deferred tax assets and liabilities into current and noncurrent. The adoption of ASU 2015-17 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-15, "Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern" ("ASU 2014-15"), which provides guidance on determining when and how to disclose going concern uncertainties in the financial statements. The new standard requires management to perform interim and annual assessments of an entity's ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date the financial statements are issued. An entity must provide certain disclosures if conditions or events raise substantial doubt about the entity's ability to continue as a going concern. ASU 2014-15 applies to all entities and is effective for annual periods ending after December 15, 2016, and interim periods thereafter, with early adoption permitted. The Company has adopted ASU 2014-15 as of December 31, 2016 and it did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers” ("ASU 2014-09"), also known as the "New Revenue Standard." This update is the result of a collaborative effort by the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board to simplify revenue recognition guidance, remove inconsistencies in the application of revenue recognition, and to improve comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdictions, and capital markets.  The core principle of the guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to receive for those goods or services. The New Revenue Standard is applied through the following five-step process:

1.  Identify the contract(s) with a customer.

2.  Identify the performance obligations in the contract.

3.  Determine the transaction price.

4.  Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.

5.  Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.

 

For a public entity, this update is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017 with early adoption permitted.  This standard can be applied on either a retrospective or modified retrospective approach. Through the course of 2016, a number of ASU's had been issued which further refine the original guidance issued under ASU 2014-09 and are effective in conjunction with this original standard.

 

We have established an implementation approach to assess the impact of the new revenue guidance on our operations, consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. To date, this assessment has included (1) performing contract analyses for each revenue stream identified, (2) assessing the noted differences in recognition and measurement that may result from adopting this new standard, (3) performing detailed analyses of contracts with large customers, and (4) performing transaction level testing  for consistency with contract provisions that affect revenue recognition. Based on the preliminary results of the evaluation, which is still in process, nothing has come to our attention that would indicate that adoption of the new standard will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

Further, we are in the process of evaluating and designing the necessary changes to our business processes, policies, systems and controls to support recognition and disclosure under the new standard. Further, we are continuing to assess what incremental disaggregated revenue disclosures will be required in our consolidated financial statements.

 

No other new accounting pronouncements issued or effective during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 have had or are expected to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.