New Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2017-12, "Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815)." It expands and refines hedge accounting for both nonfinancial and financial risk components and reduces complexity in fair value hedges of interest rate risk. It eliminates the requirement to separately measure and report hedge ineffectiveness and generally requires the entire change in the fair value of a hedging instrument to be presented in the same income statement line as the hedged item. It also eases certain documentation and assessment requirements and modifies the accounting for components excluded from assessment of hedge effectiveness. In addition, the new guidance requires expanded disclosures as it pertains to the effect of hedging on individual income statement lines, including the effects of components excluded from the assessment of effectiveness. The guidance is effective prospectively for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted this guidance during the first quarter of 2018 and the impact on the consolidated financial statements was not material. Refer to the Financial Instruments footnote for expanded disclosures.

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-07, "Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost." It requires disaggregating the service cost component from the other components of net benefit cost, provides explicit guidance on how to present the service cost component and the other components of net benefit cost in the income statement and allows only the service cost component of net benefit cost to be eligible for capitalization when applicable. This guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. In the first quarter of 2018, the Company retrospectively adopted the presentation of service cost separate from the other components of net benefit costs. As a result, Cost of sales of $1.0 million and Selling, general and administrative expenses of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017 have been reclassified to Other postretirement income as a separate line item in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-01, "Clarifying the Definition of a Business." It revises the definition of a business and provides a framework to evaluate when an input and a substantive process are present in an acquisition to be considered a business. This guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and there is no impact to the consolidated financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-18, "Restricted Cash." It requires that amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and there is no impact to the consolidated financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, "Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments." It provides guidance on eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice in how they are classified in the statement of cash flows. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and there is no impact to the consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, "Leases (Topic 842)." Under this guidance, lessees will be required to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all operating leases defined under previous GAAP. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently developing policies and processes to meet the requirements of this new guidance. The Company is in the process of analyzing its global lease obligations in order to evaluate the impact this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, "Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities." It requires equity investments (except those accounted for under the equity method of accounting) to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. However, an entity may choose to measure equity investments that do not have readily determinable fair values at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer. It also requires separate presentation of financial assets and financial liabilities by measurement category and form of financial asset on the balance sheet or the accompanying notes to the financial statements. This guidance is effective for interim and fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 with no impact to the consolidated financial statements and elected the measurement alternative for equity investments without readily determinable fair values.

In May 2014, the FASB amended the Accounting Standards Codification to add Topic 606 and issued ASU 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers," outlining a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers and superseding the then applicable revenue recognition guidance. The new guidance requires new disclosures about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. We adopted this new standard and all the related amendments (“new revenue standard”) effective January 1, 2018 and applied it to all contracts using the modified retrospective method. We recognized the cumulative effect of initially applying the new revenue standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. The comparative information has not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for those periods. We expect the impact of adoption of the new standard to be immaterial to our sales and net income on an ongoing basis.

Revenue is recognized when performance obligations under the terms of a contract are satisfied, which generally occurs with the transfer of control of our products. For most of our products, transfer of control occurs upon shipment or delivery, however, a limited number of our customer arrangements for our highly customized products with no alternative use provide us with the right to payment during the production process. As a result, for these limited arrangements, under the new revenue standard, revenue is recognized as goods are produced and control transfers to the customer. The Company recorded a transition adjustment as of January 1, 2018, which increased retained earnings by $2.0 million related to these arrangements.

The Company also has a limited number of arrangements with customers where the price paid by the customer is dependent on the volume of product purchased over the term of the arrangement. Under the new revenue standard, the Company estimates the volumes to be sold over the term of the arrangement and recognizes revenue based on the estimated amount of consideration to be received from these arrangements. The Company recorded a transition adjustment, which decreased the opening balance of retained earnings by $0.1 million related to these arrangements.

The cumulative effect of the changes made to our consolidated January 1, 2018 balance sheet for the adoption of new revenue standard was as follows:



(In millions)	Balance at December 31, 2017		Adjustments due to ASC 606			Balance at January 1, 2018
Inventories, net	$	766.3	$	(7.4	)	$	758.9
Prepayments and other current assets (including contract assets)	$	145.4	$	9.4		$	154.8
Accounts payable and other accrued expenses (including contract liabilities)	$	2,270.3	$	0.1		$	2,270.4
Retained earnings	$	4,531.0	$	1.9		$	4,532.9

The impact from adopting the new revenue standard as compared to the previous revenue guidance is immaterial to our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2018.