New Accounting Pronouncements

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Accounting Changes And Error Corrections [Abstract]

New Accounting Pronouncements

NOTE 2. NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.  The objective of this guidance is to establish the principles to report useful information to users of financial statements about the nature, timing and uncertainty of revenue from contracts with customers.  In August 2015, the FASB issued an update to defer the effective date of this guidance by one year. The guidance in the update is effective for the interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this accounting guidance on its consolidated financial statements.

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2015-03, Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30).  The amendments in this update require that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented on the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with the presentation of debt discounts.  The implementation of this update resulted in a reclassification of $0.2 million of debt issuance costs from prepaid expenses and other assets to notes payable at December 31, 2015.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Subtopic 842-10).  Under the new guidance, lessees will be required to recognize the following for all leases (with the exception of short-term leases) at the commencement date: a) lease liability, which is a lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis; andb) right-of-use asset, which is an asset that represents the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset for the lease term. Under the new guidance, lessor accounting is largely unchanged. The amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718). Under the new guidance, all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies will be recognized in the income statement as they occur.  This will replace the current guidance, which requires tax benefits that exceed compensation cost (windfalls) to be recognized in equity.  It will also eliminate the need to maintain a “windfall pool,” and will remove the requirement to delay recognizing a windfall until it reduces current taxes payable.  The new guidance will also change the cash flow presentation of excess tax benefits, classifying them as operating inflows, consistent with other cash flows related to income taxes.  The amendments in this guidance are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements.