Recent Accounting Pronouncements

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

(2)Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2013, the FASB issued new guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income. This guidance requires reclassification adjustments from other comprehensive income to be presented either in the financial statements or in the notes to the financial statements. The standard would not change the current requirements for reporting net income or other comprehensive income in financial statements. However, the guidance would require an entity to provide enhanced disclosures to present separately by component reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income. This guidance was adopted by the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2014.  The adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.  

In March 2013, the FASB issued an accounting update that clarifies the applicable guidance for the release of the cumulative translation adjustment when an entity ceases to have a controlling financial interest in a subsidiary or a group of assets that is a business within a foreign entity.  The guidance outlines the events when cumulative translation adjustments should be released into net income and is intended by FASB to eliminate some disparity in current accounting practice.  This guidance was adopted by the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2014.  The adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In July 2013, the FASB issued new guidance to reduce the diversity in presentation of an unrecognized tax benefit when a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax loss or a tax credit carryforward exists. This requires an unrecognized tax benefit to be presented in the financial statements as a reduction to a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax loss, or a tax credit carryforward, with certain exceptions listed in the guidance.  This guidance is effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2015.  The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.