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Note 5. Recently Issued Accounting Standards
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
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.     Recently Issued Accounting Standards
In April 2014 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2014-08 Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant, and Equipment (Topic 360) Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity. Under the new provision only those disposals of components of an entity that represent a strategic shift that has (or will have) a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results will be reported as discontinued operations in the financial statements; a business or nonprofit activity that, on acquisition, meets the criteria to be classified as held for sale is reported in discontinued operations; and a disposal of an equity method investment that meets the definition of discontinued operation is reported in discontinued operations. A public business entity and a non-for-profit entity that has issued, or is a conduit bond obligor for, securities that are traded, listed, or quoted on an exchange or an over-the-counter market should apply the amendments prospectively to all disposals that occur within annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2014, and interim periods within those years. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In May 2014 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). Under the new provision, an entity should apply five steps for revenue recognition to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. For a public entity, the amendments in this Update are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. Early application is not permitted. In August 2015 FASB issued accounting Standards Update No. 2015-13 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) deferral of the effective date. The amendments in this Update defer the effective date of Update 2014-09 for all entities by one year. Public business entities, certain not-for-profit entities, and certain employee benefit plans should apply the guidance in Update 2014-09 to annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim reporting periods within the reporting period. Earlier application is permitted only as of annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim reporting periods within the reporting period. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In June 2014 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2014-11 Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718). Accounting for Share-Based Payments When the Terms of an Award Provide That a Performance Target Could Be Achieved after the Requisite Service Period. The amendments require that a performance target that affects vesting and that could be achieved after the requisite service period be treated as a performance condition. For all entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. Earlier adoption is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In August 2014 FASB issued Presentation of Financial Statements-Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40) Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern. The amendments require management to assess an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern by incorporating and expanding upon certain principles that are currently in U.S. auditing standards.The amendments in this Update are effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In November 2014 FASB issued Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in the Form of a Share Is More Akin to Debt or to Equity. For hybrid financial instruments issued in the form of a share, an entity should determine the nature of the host contract by considering the economic characteristics and risks of the entire hybrid financial instrument, including the embedded derivative feature that is being evaluated for separate accounting from the host contract.The amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In January 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-01 Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items simplifying Income Statement presentation by eliminating the concept of extraordinary items. The amendment will be effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In February 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-02 Consolidation Amendments to the consolidation analysis. The amendments affect those entities who are required to evaluate whether they should consolidate certain legal entities and affect the following areas: limited partnership and similar legal entities, evaluating fees paid to a decision maker or a service provider as a variable interest, the effect of fee arrangements on the primary beneficiary determination, the effect of related parties on the primary beneficiary determination, and certain investment funds. The amendments in this update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. For all other entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2016, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.    
In April 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-03 Interest-Imputation of Interest to simply the presentation of debt issuance costs. For public business entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal year. For all other entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15,2015, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In April 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-04 Compensation-Retirement Benefits (Topic 715) to provide practical expedient for the measurement date of an employer’s defined benefit obligation and plan assets. The amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for financial statements issued for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal year. For all other entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. Earlier adoption is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In April 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-05 Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40) to provide guidance to customers about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license. For public business entities, the amendments will be effective for annual periods, including interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2015. For all other entities, the amendments will be effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early adoption is permitted for all entities. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In April 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-06 Earnings Per Share (Topic 260). The Amendments specify that for purposes of calculating historical earnings per unit under the two-class method, the earnings (losses) of a transferred business before the date of a dropdown transaction should be allocated entirely to the general partner. Qualitative disclosures about how the rights to the earnings (losses) differ before and after the dropdown transaction occurs for purposes of computing earnings per unit under the two-class method are required. The amendments are effective for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Earlier application is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In May 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-07 Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820). The amendments remove the requirement to categorize within the fair value hierarchy all investments for which fair value is measured using the net asset value per share practical expedient. The amendments also remove the requirement to make certain disclosures for all investments that are eligible to be measured at fair value using the net asset value per share practical expedient. The amendments apply to reporting entities that elect to measure the friar value of an investment within the scope of paragraph 820-10-15-4 through 15-5 using the net asset value per share (or its equivalent) practical expedient in paragraph 820-35-59. The amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In May 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standard Update 2015-08 Business Combinations (Topic 805) as amendments to various SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 115. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In May 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standard Update 2015-09 Financial Services-Insurance (Topic 944). The amendments apply to all insurance entities that issue short-duration contracts as defined in Topic 944, Financial Service-Insurance. The amendments require insurance entities to provide additional disclosure for annual reporting periods about liability for unpaid claims and claim adjustment expenses. For public entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. For all other entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In June 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2015-10 Technical Correction and Update. The amendments affect wide variety of Topics in Codification in the following four categories: Amendments related to differences between original guidance and the codification, guidance clarification and reference corrections, simplification and minor improvements. The amendments in this Update that require transition guidance are effective for all entities for fiscal year, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In July 2015 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-11 Inventory simplifying the Measurement of Inventory. Inventory measured using any method other than LIFO or the retail or average cost shall be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value. For public business entities, the amendments in this update are effective for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal Years. The amendments should be applied prospectively with earlier application permitted as of the beginning of an interim or annual reporting period. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In July 2015 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update NO. 2015-12 (Part I) Plan Accounting: Defined Defined Contribution Pension Plans (Topic 962) Health and Welfare Benefit Plans (Topic 965) to reduce the complexity in employee benefit plan accounting. Under the amendments, fully benefit-responsive investment contracts are measured, presented, and disclosed only at contract value. The amendments in Part I of this Update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015. Earlier application is permitted.The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In August 2015 FASB issued Accounting Standard Update NO. 2015-12 Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) Application of the Normal Purchases and Normal Sales Scope Exception to Certain Electricity Contracts within Nodal Energy Markets. The amendments apply to entities that enter into contracts for the purchase or sale of electricity on a forward basis and arrange for transmission through, or delivery to a location within, a nodal energy market whereby one of the contracting parties incurs charges (or credits) for the transmission of that electricity based in part on locational marginal pricing differences payable to (or receivable from) an independent system operator. The amendments specify that the use of locational marginal pricing by the independent system operator does not constitute the net settlement of the contract. If the physical delivery criterion is met, along with all of the other criteria of the normal purchase and normal scales scope exception, an entity may elect to designate that contract as a normal purchase or normal sale. The amendments in the Update are effective upon assurance and should be applied prospectively. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In August 2015 FASB issued Accounting Standards Update NO. 2015-15 Interest -Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30). This update adds SEC paragraphs pursuant to the SEC Staff Announcement at the June 18, 2015 Emerging Issues Task Force (EIFF) MEETING about the presentation of subsequent measurement of debt issuance costs associated with line-of-credit arrangements. Given the absence of authoritative guidance within Update 2015-03 for debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements, the SEC staff would not object to an entity deferring an presenting debt issuance costs as an asset and subsequently amortizing the deferred debt issuance cots ratably over the term of the line-of-credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings on the line-of-credit arrangement. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.