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Note 13 - New Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
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NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
In
May 2014,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) on recognition of revenue arising from contracts with customers, as well as recognition of gains and losses from the transfer of nonfinancial assets in contracts with noncustomers, and subsequently, it issued additional guidance that further clarified the ASU. The revenue recognition ASU has implications for all revenues, excluding those that are under the specific scope of other accounting standards, such as revenue associated with leases (described below). 
 
The Company’s revenues for the
three
months ended
March 31, 2018,
that were subject to the revenue recognition ASU were as follows (in thousands):
 
Real estate
  $
36
 
Utilities
   
704
 
Resort amenities and other
   
307
 
Total
  $
1,047
 
 
The core principle underlying the revenue recognition ASU is that an entity will recognize revenue to represent the transfer of goods and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in such exchange. This will require entities to identify contractual performance obligations and determine whether revenue should be recognized at a point in time or over time, based on when control of goods and services transfers to a customer. The Company’s revenue streams are recognized at a point in time except for the resort amenities revenue where the annual membership dues are recognized over a period of
twelve
months.
 
A customer is distinguished from a noncustomer by the nature of the goods or services that are transferred. Customers are provided with goods or services that are generated by a company’s ordinary output activities, whereas noncustomers are provided with nonfinancial assets that are outside of a company’s ordinary output activities. This distinction
may
not
significantly change the pattern of income recognition, but determines whether that income is classified as revenue (contracts with customers) or other gains/losses (contracts with noncustomers) in the Company’s financial statements. The Company’s revenue streams for the period were generated as ordinary output activities to customers as defined by the guidance and were properly classified as revenues.
 
The ASU requires the use of a new
five
-step model to recognize revenue from customer contracts. The
five
-step model requires that the Company (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will
not
occur, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the performance obligation. The application of the
five
-step model to the revenue streams compared to the prior guidance did
not
result in significant changes in the way the Company records its real estate revenue, utilities revenue and resort amenities and other revenues. 
 
An entity will also be required to determine if it controls the goods or services prior to the transfer to the customer in order to determine if it should account for the arrangement as a principal or agent. Principal arrangements, where the entity controls the goods or services provided, will result in the recognition of the gross amount of consideration expected in the exchange. Agent arrangements, where the entity simply arranges but does
not
control the goods or services being transferred to the customer, will result in the recognition of the net amount the entity is entitled to retain in the exchange. Upon adoption of the new lease ASU in
2019,
the Company
may
be required to classify its tenant recoveries into lease and nonlease components, whereby the nonlease components would be subject to the revenue recognition ASU, pending the resolution of the proposed amendment issued by the FASB in
January 2018.
Property services categorized as nonlease components that are reimbursed by the Company’s tenants
may
need to be presented on a net basis if it is determined that the Company held an agent arrangement.
 
Upon adoption, entities can use either a full retrospective or modified retrospective method to adopt this ASU. Under the full retrospective method, all periods presented will be restated upon adoption to conform to the new standard and a cumulative adjustment for effects on periods prior to
2016
will be recorded to retained earnings as of
January 1, 2016.
Under the modified retrospective approach, prior periods are
not
restated to conform to the new standard. Instead, a cumulative adjustment for effects of applying the new standard to periods prior to
2018
is recorded to retained earnings as of
January 1, 2018.
Additionally, incremental footnote disclosures are required to present the
2018
revenues under the prior standard. Under the modified retrospective method, an entity
may
also elect to apply the standard to either (i) all contracts as of
January 1, 2018,
or (ii) only to contracts that are
not
completed as of
January 1, 2018.
The Company elected to adopt this guidance using the modified retrospective method at
January 1, 2018
which did
not
result in an adjustment to the retained earnings. Additionally, upon adoption, the Company evaluated its revenue recognition policy for all revenue streams within the scope of the ASU under previous standards and using the
five
-step model under the new guidance and confirmed that there were
no
differences in the pattern of revenue recognition.
 
In
February 2016,
FASB issued an ASU that sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of leases for both parties to a lease agreement (i.e., lessees and lessors). The ASU is effective for the Company
no
later than
January 1, 2019,
with early adoption permitted. The ASU requires the Company to identify lease and nonlease components of a lease agreement. This ASU will govern the recognition of revenue for lease components. Revenue related to nonlease components under our lease agreements will be subject to the new revenue recognition standard effective upon adoption of the new lease accounting standard. The Company expects to adopt the new lease accounting standard on
January 1, 2019.
 
In
August 2016,
FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
15,
Statement of Cash Flows. This ASU aims to reduce the existing diversity in practice in how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows. This ASU is effective for public business entities for annual reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017.
The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
October 2016,
FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
16,
Income Taxes. This ASU simplifies the recognition of intra-entity income tax consequences when an asset other than inventory is transferred. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017
for public business entities. The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
November 2016,
FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
18,
Statement of Cash Flows-Restricted Cash. This ASU addresses the diversity in the classification and presentation of changes in restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017
for public business entities. The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
December 2016,
FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
20,
Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic
606,
Revenue from Contracts with Customers. This ASU summarizes the various amendments that serve to clarify the codification or to correct unintended application of guidance. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017.
The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
March 2017,
FASB issued ASU
No.
2017
-
07,
Compensation-Retirement Benefits. This ASU aims to improve the presentation of the net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit cost by requiring the reporting of the service cost component in the same line item or items as other compensation costs arising from services rendered by employees during the period. The other components of net benefit cost are required to be presented in the income statement separately from the service cost component and outside a subtotal of income from operations. This ASU is effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2017.
The adoption of this guidance is reflected on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
May 2017,
the FASB issued ASU
No.
2017
-
09,
Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic
718
) Scope of Modification Accounting. This ASU clarifies which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require an entity to apply modification accounting in Topic
718.
The standard is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017,
with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.