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Note 13 - New Accounting Standards
3 Months Ended
Apr. 01, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
13.
New Accounting Standards
 
In
May
2014,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
2014
-
09,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers,” to clarify the principles used to recognize revenue for all entities. In
March
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
08,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic
606):
Principal versus Agent Considerations,” which further clarifies the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations,” and in
April
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
10,
“Revenue from contracts with customers (Topic
606):
Identifying performance obligations and licensing,” an update on identifying performance obligations and accounting for licenses of intellectual property. Additionally, in
May
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
12,
“Revenue from contracts with customers (Topic
606):
Narrow-scope improvements and practical expedients,” which includes amendments for enhanced clarification of the guidance. In
December
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
20,
“Technical Corrections and Improvements to
Topic
606,
Revenue from Contracts with Customers,”
which continues the FASB’s ongoing project to issue technical corrections and improvements to clarify the codification or correct unintended application of guidance. From the results of the preliminary review, the Company believes the impact of adopting the updated standard will not have a material impact on the Company. Over
90%
of the Company’s revenues are generated through time and material invoicing. The clients are invoiced after the hours have been worked and/or the material has been delivered and accepted. The remaining revenue relates to long term projects. The Company recognizes revenue on these projects using the percentage of completion method. The Company reviewed the
five
-step process for revenue recognition and believes its current method of recognizing revenue on these long term projects would not materially change upon adoption due to the value provided to the customer during the project.
 
The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after
December
15,
2017
including interim periods within those fiscal years and early adoption is permitted. We are continuing to evaluate the effect the adoption will have on our consolidated financial statements. The Company expects to adopt this update in its fiscal
2018
first
quarter using the modified retrospective approach.
 
In
February
2016
the FASB issued ASU No.
2016
-
02
, Leases (Topic
842),
which amended guidance for lease arrangements in order to increase transparency and comparability by providing additional information to users of financial statements regarding an entity's leasing activities. The revised guidance seeks to achieve this objective by requiring reporting entities to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for substantially all lease arrangements. The guidance, which is required to be adopted in the
first
quarter of
2019,
will be applied on a modified retrospective basis beginning with the earliest period presented. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of adopting this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
March
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
09,
Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic
718):
Improvement to Employee Share-based Payment Accounting
. ASU
2016
-
09
simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities and classification on the statement of cash flows. The Company adopted ASU
2016
-
09
in its fiscal
2017
first
quarter. It did not have a material impact.
 
In
June
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
13,
Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic
326).
The new standard amends guidance on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost basis and available-for-sale debt securities. This ASU is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2018,
including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently evaluating this guidance to determine the impact it
may
have on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
August
2016,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2016
-
15,
Statement of Cash Flows (
Topic
230):
Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments
. ASU
2016
-
15
clarifies how certain cash receipts and payments should be presented in the statement of cash flows. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2017.
Early adoption is permitted, provided that all of the amendments are adopted in the same period. The guidance requires application using a retrospective transition method.
The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact of adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
January
2017,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2017
-
01,
Business Combinations”
(Topic
805)
to clarify the definition of a business to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2017
including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted under certain circumstances. The Company is evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
January
2017,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2017
-
04,
“Intangibles – Goodwill and Other” (Topic
350).
The objective of Phase
1
of the project, which resulted in this Update, is to simplify the testing of goodwill for impairment by eliminating Step
2
from the goodwill impairment test.  The guidance is effective for annual or interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2019
including interim periods within those fiscal years.  Early adoption is permitted.   The Company is evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.