SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

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Jun. 30, 2020

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

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Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

The accounting policies of the Company are set forth in Note 1 to Consolidated Financial Statements contained in the Company’s 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K. We include herein certain updates to those policies.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements—The Company considers the applicability and impact of all Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). ASUs not listed below were assessed and determined to be either not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position and cash flows (Consolidated Financial Statements).

In December 2019, the FASB issued an accounting standard update to simplify the accounting for income taxes. The standard's amendments include changes in various subtopics of accounting for income taxes including, but not limited to, accounting for "hybrid" tax regimes, tax basis step-up in goodwill obtained in a transaction that is not a business combination, intraperiod tax allocation exception to incremental approach, ownership changes in investments, interim-period accounting for enacted changes in tax law, and year-to-date loss limitation in interim-period tax accounting. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 with early adoption permitted, including the interim periods within those years. We are currently evaluating impacts of these amendments on our Consolidated Financial Statements, and related notes to the Financial Statements. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued an accounting standard that requires companies to utilize an impairment model (current expected credit loss, or CECL) for most financial assets measured at amortized cost and certain other financial instruments, which include, but are not limited to, trade and other receivables. This accounting standard replaced the incurred loss model with a model that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to estimate those losses. Effective January 1, 2020, the Company adopted this standard. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.