Note 2 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]	NOTE 2 – RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“ FASB”) issued an accounting standard regarding recognition of revenue from contracts with customers that will supersede the existing revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP. In summary, the core principle of this standard, along with various subsequent amendments, is that an entity recognizes 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 be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Additionally, the new standard requires enhanced disclosures about the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including revenue recognition policies to identify performance obligations, assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain and fulfill a contract, and significant judgments in measurements and recognition. The standard, as amended, will be effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting period. Nearly 95% of the Company’s current revenue is produced from the sale of carpet, hard surface flooring and related products (TacTiles installation system, etc.) and the revenue from sales of these products is recognized upon shipment, or in certain cases upon delivery to the customer. There does not exist any performance or any other obligation after the sale of these products outside of the product warranty, which has not historically been of significance compared to total product sales. There is a small portion of the Company’s revenues (approximately 5% ) that is for the sale and installation of carpet and related products. Of these projects, the overwhelming majority are completed in less than two weeks and therefore the Company does not expect a significant shift in the timing of revenue recognition for these sales either. Upon adoption of this standard, the company will change the accounting for these projects to recognize the major components of revenue over time. However, it is not expected that this change will have a significant impact upon our results of operations given the generally short period of time of these projects. As of the end of 2017, the amount of revenue that would have been recognized under the new standard versus previous guidance was not significant. The standard offers practical expedients to help with adoption. The Company will apply the portfolio approach expedient, which is applicable as its sales contracts share similar characteristics. The Company will apply the practical expedient regarding the accounting for costs to obtain contracts, as its costs for such contracts are primarily sales commissions which are recognized within a year of the sale of product. The Company will use the modified retrospective method of adoption, but as noted the impact as of year-end was insignificant. Given the nature of the Company’s sales, it currently believes that revenue recognition under the new standard will be mostly consistent under both the current and new standards, with performance obligations being satisfied under the majority of contracts with customers upon shipment or delivery of product. Given the nature of the Company’s revenue there is not expected to be significant changes to the Company’s information systems as a result of this adoption. In November 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standard which requires deferred tax assets and liabilities, as well as any related valuation allowance, be classified as noncurrent on the balance sheet. As a result, ea ch jurisdiction will only have one net noncurrent deferred tax asset or liability. This standard does not change the existing requirement that only permits offsetting within a jurisdiction. The amendments in the standard may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively to all prior periods presented. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2017 and applied this standard retrospectively by recording a reduction of current assets of $10.0 million and a corresponding increase in long term assets of $5.9 million as well as a reduction of long term liabilities of $4.1 million. In March 2016, the FASB issued an accounting standard update to simplify several aspects of accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and the classific ation on the statement of cash flows. In addition, an entity can make an entity-wide accounting policy election to either estimate the number of awards that are expected to vest, which is the current U.S. GAAP practice, or account for forfeitures when they occur. This update is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. The element of the new standard having the most impact on the Company’s financial statements is income tax consequences. Excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies on stock-based compensation awards are now included in the tax provision within the consolidated statement of operations as discrete items in the reporting period in which they occur, rather than the previous accounting of recording them in additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheet. The adoption of this standard resulted in an increase in deferred tax assets of approximately $9.4 million, with a corresponding increase to equity accounts, in 2017. See further discussion of this amount in Note 13 “Taxes on Income.” There was an impact of this standard on the consolidated statement of cash flows upon adoption, as under the standard when an employer withholds shares for tax withholding purposes those related tax payments are treated as financing activities, not as operating activities. Upon adoption in the first quarter of 2017, this resulted in a reclassification of $4.6 million of such tax payments in 2016 from operating activities to financing activities, and $1.0 million of such tax payments in 2015 from operating activities to financing activities. The Company has elected to continue its current policy of estimating forfeitures of stock-based compensation awards at the time of grant and revising in subsequent periods to reflect actual forfeitures, which is allowable under the new standard. In February 2016, the FASB issued a new accounting standard regarding leases. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (ROU) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability o n the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months. Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. A modified retrospective transition approach is required for lessees for capital and operating leases existing at, or entered after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, with certain practical expedients available. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of the new standard on our consolidated financial statements , but the standard will result in the Company recording both assets and liabilities for leases currently classified as operating leases. In January 2017, the FASB issued a new accounting standard that provides for the elimination of Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Under the new guidance, impairment charges are recognized to the extent the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value with certain limitations. The new guidance is effective for any annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not anticipate that the adoption of the new guidance will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements. In March 2017, the FASB issued a new accounting standard regarding the treatment of net periodic benefit costs. This standard will require segregation of these net benefit costs between operating and non-operating expenses. Currently, the Company reports the net benefit costs associated with its defined benefit plans as a component of operating income. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those fiscal years. When the new standard is implemented, only the service cost component of defined benefit plan costs will be reported within operating income, while all other components of net benefit cost will be presented within the “Other Expense (income)” line item on the consolidated statements of operations. The standard requires retrospective application, and as such upon adoption this standard will result in offsetting changes in operating income and “Other Expense (income)” on the consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented, with no impact on net income. Upon adoption in 2018 the Company will reclassify $1.9 million and $2.2 million for 2017 and 2016, respectively, from operating expenses to other expense. In February 2018, the FASB issued a new accounting standard to address a narrow-scope financial reporting issue that arose as a consequence of the Tax Act. Existing guidance requires that deferred tax liabilities and assets be adjusted for a change in tax laws or rates with the effect included in income from continuing operations in the reporting period that includes the enactment date. That guidance is applicable even in situations in which the related income tax effects of items in accumulated other comprehensive income were originally recognized in other comprehensive income (rather than in net income), such as amounts related to benefit plans and hedging activity. As a result, the tax effects of items within accumulated other comprehensive income do not reflect the appropriate tax rate (the difference is referred to as stranded tax effects). The new guidance allows for a reclassification of these amounts to retained earnings thereby eliminating these stranded tax effects. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

May 2014,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“

FASB”) issued an accounting standard regarding recognition of revenue from contracts with customers that will supersede the existing revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP. In summary, the core principle of this standard, along with various subsequent amendments, is that an entity recognizes 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 be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Additionally, the new standard requires enhanced disclosures about the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including revenue recognition policies to identify performance obligations, assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain and fulfill a contract, and significant judgments in measurements and recognition. The standard, as amended, will be effective for annual periods beginning after

December 15, 2017,

including interim periods within that reporting period. Nearly

95%

of the Company’s current revenue is produced from the sale of carpet, hard surface flooring and related products (TacTiles installation system, etc.) and the revenue from sales of these products is recognized upon shipment, or in certain cases upon delivery to the customer. There does

not

exist any performance or any other obligation after the sale of these products outside of the product warranty, which has

not

historically been of significance compared to total product sales. There is a small portion of the Company’s revenues (approximately

) that is for the sale and installation of carpet and related products. Of these projects, the overwhelming majority are completed in less than

two

weeks and therefore the Company does

not

expect a significant shift in the timing of revenue recognition for these sales either. Upon adoption of this standard, the company will change the accounting for these projects to recognize the major components of revenue over time. However, it is

not

expected that this change will have a significant impact upon our results of operations given the generally short period of time of these projects. As of the end of

2017,

the amount of revenue that would have been recognized under the new standard versus previous guidance was

not

significant.

The standard offers practical expedients to help with adoption. The Company will apply the portfolio approach expedient, which is applicable as its sales contracts share similar characteristics. The Company will apply the practical

expedient regarding the accounting for costs to obtain contracts, as its costs for such contracts are primarily sales commissions which are recognized within a year of the sale of product.

The Company will use the modified retrospective method of adoption, but as noted the impact as of year-end was insignificant. Given the nature of the Company’s sales, it currently believes that revenue recognition under the new standard will be mostly consistent under both the current and new standards, with performance obligations being satisfied under the majority of contracts with customers upon shipment or delivery of product. Given the nature of the Company’s revenue there is

not

expected to be significant changes to the Company’s information systems as a result of this adoption.

November 2015,

the FASB issued an accounting standard which requires deferred tax assets and liabilities, as well as any related valuation allowance, be classified as noncurrent on the balance sheet. As a result, ea

ch jurisdiction will only have

one

net noncurrent deferred tax asset or liability. This standard does

not

change the existing requirement that only permits offsetting within a jurisdiction. The amendments in the standard

may

be applied either prospectively or retrospectively to all prior periods presented. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after

December 15, 2016,

and interim periods within those annual periods, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this standard in the

first

quarter of

2017

and applied this standard retrospectively by recording a reduction of current assets of

$10.0

million and a corresponding increase in long term assets of

$5.9

million as well as a reduction of long term liabilities of

$4.1

million.

March 2016,

the FASB issued an accounting standard update to simplify several aspects of accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and the classific

ation on the statement of cash flows. In addition, an entity can make an entity-wide accounting policy election to either estimate the number of awards that are expected to vest, which is the current U.S. GAAP practice, or account for forfeitures when they occur. This update is effective for fiscal periods beginning after

December 15, 2016,

including interim periods within that reporting period. The element of the new standard having the most impact on the Company’s financial statements is income tax consequences. Excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies on stock-based compensation awards are now included in the tax provision within the consolidated statement of operations as discrete items in the reporting period in which they occur, rather than the previous accounting of recording them in additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheet. The adoption of this standard resulted in an increase in deferred tax assets of approximately

$9.4

million, with a corresponding increase to equity accounts, in

2017.

See further discussion of this amount in Note

“Taxes on Income.” There was an impact of this standard on the consolidated statement of cash flows upon adoption, as under the standard when an employer withholds shares for tax withholding purposes those related tax payments are treated as financing activities,

not

as operating activities. Upon adoption in the

first

quarter of

2017,

this resulted in a reclassification of

$4.6

million of such tax payments in

2016

from operating activities to financing activities, and

$1.0

million of such tax payments in

2015

from operating activities to financing activities. The Company has elected to continue its current policy of estimating forfeitures of stock-based compensation awards at the time of grant and revising in subsequent periods to reflect actual forfeitures, which is allowable under the new standard.

February 2016,

the FASB issued a new accounting standard regarding leases. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (ROU) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability o

n the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than

months. Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. A modified retrospective transition approach is required for lessees for capital and operating leases existing at, or entered after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, with certain practical expedients available. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of the new standard on our consolidated financial statements

, but the standard will result in the Company recording both assets and liabilities for leases currently classified as operating leases.

January 2017,

the FASB issued a new accounting standard that provides for the elimination of Step

from the goodwill impairment

test. Under the new guidance, impairment charges are recognized to the extent the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value with certain limitations. The new guidance is effective for any annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2019.

Early adoption is permitted. The Company does

not

anticipate that the adoption of the new guidance will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.

March 2017,

the FASB issued

a new accounting standard regarding the treatment of net periodic benefit costs. This standard will require segregation of these net benefit costs between operating and non-operating expenses. Currently, the Company reports the net benefit costs associated with its defined benefit plans as a component of operating income. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2017,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. When the new standard is implemented, only the service cost component of defined benefit plan costs will be reported within operating income, while all other components of net benefit cost will be presented within the “Other Expense (income)” line item on the consolidated statements of operations. The standard requires retrospective application, and as such upon adoption this standard will result in offsetting changes in operating income and “Other Expense (income)” on the consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented, with

impact on net income. Upon adoption in

2018

the Company will reclassify

$1.9

million and

$2.2

million for

2017

and

2016,

respectively, from operating expenses to other expense.

February 2018,

the FASB issued a new accounting standard to address a narrow-scope financial reporting issue that arose as a consequence of the Tax Act. Existing guidance requires that deferred tax liabilities and assets be adjusted for a change in tax

laws or rates with the effect included in income from continuing operations in the reporting period that includes the enactment date. That guidance is applicable even in situations in which the related income tax effects of items in accumulated other comprehensive income were originally recognized in other comprehensive income (rather than in net income), such as amounts related to benefit plans and hedging activity. As a result, the tax effects of items within accumulated other comprehensive income do

not

reflect the appropriate tax rate (the difference is referred to as stranded tax effects). The new guidance allows for a reclassification of these amounts to retained earnings thereby eliminating these stranded tax effects. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after

December 15, 2018.

The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.