Discontinued Operations

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Discontinued Operations

Discontinued Operations

12.Discontinued Operations

During the first quarter of 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued guidance that changed the definition of discontinued operations by limiting discontinued operations reporting to disposals of components of an entity that represent strategic shifts that have, or will have, a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results.  We early adopted the requirements of this accounting pronouncement in the first quarter of 2014.

Starting with the first quarter of 2014, the results of operations for all qualifying disposals and properties classified as held for sale that were not previously reported in discontinued operations in our 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K are presented within income from continuing operations on our consolidated statements of income.  Prior to the date of adoption of ASU 2014-08, we reported, in discontinued operations, the results of operations of properties that had either been disposed of or classified as held for sale in financial statements issued.  For the three months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded income from discontinued operations of $3.1 million, or $0.01 per common share, basic and diluted.