XML 20 R8.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.5.0.2
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Management bases its estimates and judgments on historical experience and various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Significant estimates include the assessment of collectability of revenue recognized, and the valuation of accounts receivable, inventory, investments, goodwill and intangible assets, liabilities, contingent consideration, deferred income tax assets and liabilities, and stock-based compensation. These estimates have the potential to significantly affect our consolidated financial statements, either because of the significance of the financial statement item to which they relate, or because they require judgment and estimation due to the uncertainty involved in measuring, at a specific point in time, events that are continuous in nature.

Foreign Currency

The functional currency of foreign operations is deemed to be the local country’s currency.  Assets and liabilities of operations outside of the United States are generally translated into U.S. dollars, and the effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).

Reclassifications

Certain prior year balances within the condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

The critical accounting policies used in the preparation of our audited consolidated financial statements are discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015. There have been no changes to these policies in the first nine months of 2016.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In January 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2015-01, Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminating the Concept of Extraordinary Items (“ASU 2015-01”). ASU 2015-01 eliminates the requirement for entities to consider whether an underlying event or transaction is extraordinary, and, if so, to separately present the item in the income statement net of tax, after income from continuing operations. Instead, items that are both unusual and infrequent should be separately presented as a component of income from continuing operations, or be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.  ASU 2015-01 became effective January 1, 2016, and did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In March 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2015-02, Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis (“ASU 2015-02”). ASU 2015-02 eliminates entity-specific consolidation guidance for limited partnerships, and revises other aspects of the consolidation analysis, but does not change the existing consolidation guidance for corporations that are not variable interest entities (“VIEs”). ASU 2015-02 became effective January 1, 2016, and did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In April 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2015-03, Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs (“ASU 2015-03”). ASU 2015-03 changes the presentation of debt issuance costs in financial statements, by requiring them to be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the related debt liability, rather than as an asset. Amortization of the costs is reported as interest expense. There is no change to the current guidance on the recognition and measurement of debt issuance costs. ASU 2015-03 became effective January 1, 2016, and did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In August 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2015-15, Interest – Imputation of Interest, (“ASU 2015-15”).  ASU 2015-15 amends subtopic 835-30 of the ASC (which was previously amended by ASU 2015-03) to allow for the capitalization of debt issuance costs related to line of credit agreements.  Capitalized costs would be presented as an asset and subsequently amortized ratably over the term of the line of credit.  ASU 2015-15 became effective January 1, 2016, and did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2015-16, Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments (“ASU 2015-16”).  ASU 2015-16 changes the recognition of business combination adjustments by requiring acquirers to recognize adjustments to provisional amounts identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined.  The acquirer is required to record the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of the change to the provisional amounts.  These amounts are calculated as if the accounting was completed at acquisition date.  The acquirer is also required to present separately on the face of the income statement, or disclose in the notes, the amount recorded in current-period earnings (by line item) that would have been recorded in previous reporting periods had the adjustments been recognized as of the acquisition date.  ASU 2015-16 became effective January 1, 2016, and did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Future Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-02, Leases, (“ASU 2016-02”).  ASU 2016-02 changes the accounting for leases previously classified as operating leases under GAAP, by, among other things, requiring a company to recognize the lease on the balance sheet with a right-of-use asset and a lease liability.  ASU 2016-02 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018.  The Company has not yet adopted ASU 2016-02 nor assessed its potential impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-07, Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures (“ASU 2016-07”), which simplifies the transition to the equity method of accounting by, among other things, eliminating retroactive adjustments to the investments as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or degree of influence.  ASU 2016-07 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016.  The Company has not yet adopted ASU 2016-07 nor assessed its potential impact on its consolidated financial statements.  

In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2016-08”), which provides clarity on the implementation of guidance on principal versus agent considerations (reporting of revenue on a gross basis versus net basis).  ASU 2016-08 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017.  The Company does not believe that the clarification of the implementation of the guidance will change the conclusions reached in its current analysis of principal versus agent considerations for reporting of revenue.  

In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (“ASU 2016-09”), which provides improvements to employee share-based payment accounting.  ASU 2016-09 simplifies the accounting and presentation of various elements of share-based compensation including, but not limited to, income taxes, excess tax benefits, statutory tax withholding requirements, payment of employee taxes, and award assumptions.  ASU 2016-09 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016.  The Company is still assessing the impact ASU 2016-09 will have on its consolidated financial statements.  

In April 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2016-10”), which provides clarity on identifying performance obligations and licensing.  ASU 2016-10 clarifies how an entity identifies performance obligations and whether that entity’s promise to grant a license provides a customer with either a right to use the entity’s intellectual property or a right to access the entity’s intellectual property.  ASU 2016-10 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017.  The Company has not yet adopted ASU 2016-10 nor assessed its potential impact on its consolidated financial statements.  

In May 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2016-12”), which provides clarity and simplification to the transition guidance from the previously issued ASU 2014-09.  ASU 2016-12 provides narrow scope improvements to assessing the collectability criterion, the presentation of sales and other similar taxes, non-cash consideration, contract modifications, completed contracts, and technical corrections.  ASU 2016-12 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017.  The Company has not yet adopted ASU 2016-12 nor assessed its potential impact on its consolidated financial statements.  

In August 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards update 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (“ASU 2016-15”), which clarifies the classification of certain cash receipts and payments.  The specific cash flow issues addressed by ASU 2016-15, with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice, are as follows: (1) Debt prepayment or debt extinguishment costs; (2) Settlement of zero-coupon debt instruments or other debt instruments with insignificant coupon interest rates; (3) Contingent consideration payments made after a business combination; (4) Proceeds from the settlement of insurance claims; (5) Proceeds from the settlement of corporate-owned life insurance policies; (6) Distributions received from equity method investees; (7) Beneficial interest in securitization transactions; and (8) Separately identifiable cash flows and application of the predominance in principle.  ASU 2016-15 will be effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017.  The Company is still assessing the impact of ASU 2016-15 on its consolidated financial statements.