Note 3 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements	9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]	3. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS New pronouncements pending adoption In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016 - 13, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments , which supersedes current guidance by requiring recognition of credit losses when it is probable that a loss has been incurred. The new standard requires the establishment of an allowance for estimated credit losses on financial assets including trade and other receivables at each reporting date. The new standard will result in earlier recognition of allowances for losses on trade and other receivables and other contractual rights to receive cash. The new standard will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year beginning October 1, 2020, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently reviewing this standard to assess the impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. In June 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2018 - 7, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718 ), Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting (“ASU 2018 - 7” ), which amends and expands Topic 718 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees. The standard requires entities to measure nonemployee share-based payment transactions by estimating the fair value of the equity instrument it is obligated to issue, measure the equity-classified nonemployee share-based payment awards at the grant date, and consider the probability of satisfying performance conditions when accounting for nonemployee share based payment awards with such conditions. ASU 2018 - 7 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that fiscal year. Accordingly, this guidance will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2019. The Company expects that the adoption of this ASU will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018 - 02, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220 ) . The amendments in this ASU allow a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Consequently, the amendments eliminate the stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and will improve the usefulness of information reported to financial statement users. However, because the amendments only relate to the reclassification of the income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations is not affected. The amendments in this update also require certain disclosures about stranded tax effects. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 with early adoption permitted, including interim periods within that fiscal year. Accordingly, this guidance will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2019. The Company expects that the adoption of this ASU will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 02, Leases (Topic 842 ) , which issued new guidance related to leases that outlines a comprehensive lease accounting model and supersedes the current lease guidance. The new guidance requires lessees to recognize lease liabilities and corresponding right-of-use assets for all leases with lease terms of greater than 12 months. It also changes the definition of a lease and expands the disclosure requirements of lease arrangements. The new guidance must be adopted using the modified retrospective approach and will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2019. Although the Company has not completed its assessment of the full impact on its consolidated financial statements of the adoption of Topic 842, the Company currently believes that the most significant changes will be related to the recognition of a right-to-use asset and a corresponding lease liability on its consolidated balance sheet for the new facility lease described in Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies. New pronouncements adopted In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230 ), Restricted Cash, which amends Topic 230 to add or clarify guidance on the classification and presentation of restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. The standard requires that a statement of cash flows explain the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. Therefore, 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. The provisions of this guidance are to be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. ASU No. 2016 - 18 was effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within those years, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU No. 2016 - 18 effective January 1, 2018. For the year ended September 30, 2018 and the nine months ended June 30, 2019, restricted cash balances are due to a security deposit for the Company’s new office lease, as described in Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies, and restricted cash held as collateral for notes payable, as described in Note 11, Debt. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows, other than the impact discussed above. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718 ): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting . This guidance changes how companies account for certain aspects of share-based payments to employees. Among other things, under the new guidance, companies will no longer record excess tax benefits and certain tax deficiencies in additional paid-in-capital (“APIC”), but will instead record such items as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement, and APIC pools will be eliminated. Companies will apply this guidance prospectively. Another component of the new guidance allows companies to make an accounting policy election for the impact of forfeitures on the recognition of expense for share-based payment awards, whereby forfeitures can be estimated, as required today, or recognized when they occur. If elected, the change to recognize forfeitures when they occur needs to be adopted using a modified retrospective approach. The guidance was effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2018. The adoption of this standard resulted in the recognition of $1.1 million of gross deferred tax assets related to the historical excess tax benefits from stock based compensation that was not previously included in deferred tax assets and a corresponding increase in the Company’s valuation allowance. In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014 - 09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2014 - 09” ), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. ASU 2014 - 09 will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles when it becomes effective. In July 2015, the FASB deferred the effective date of the standard by an additional year; however, it provided companies the option to adopt one year earlier, commensurate with the original effective date. Accordingly, the standard was effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2018. Subsequently, the FASB issued additional guidance (ASUs 2015 - 14; 2016 - 08; 2016 - 10; 2016 - 12; 2016 - 13; 2016 - 20 ). The adoption of this guidance by the Company, effective October 1, 2018, did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements (see Note 4, Revenue Recognition, for further detail).

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

New pronouncements pending adoption

June 2016,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)

2016

13,

Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments

, which supersedes current guidance by requiring recognition of credit losses when it is probable that a loss has been incurred. The new standard requires the establishment of an allowance for estimated credit losses on financial assets including trade and other receivables at each reporting date. The new standard will result in earlier recognition of allowances for losses on trade and other receivables and other contractual rights to receive cash. The new standard will be effective for the Company in the

first

quarter of fiscal year beginning

October 1, 2020,

and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently reviewing this standard to assess the impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

June 2018,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)

No.

2018

Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic

718

), Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting

(“ASU

2018

7”

), which amends and expands Topic

718

to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees. The standard requires entities to measure nonemployee share-based payment transactions by estimating the fair value of the equity instrument it is obligated to issue, measure the equity-classified nonemployee share-based payment awards at the grant date, and consider the probability of satisfying performance conditions when accounting for nonemployee share based payment awards with such conditions. ASU

2018

is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within that fiscal year. Accordingly, this guidance will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning

October 1, 2019.

The Company expects that the adoption of this ASU will

not

have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

February 2018,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2018

02,

Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic

220

)

. The amendments in this ASU allow a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Consequently, the amendments eliminate the stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and will improve the usefulness of information reported to financial statement users. However, because the amendments only relate to the reclassification of the income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations is

not

affected. The amendments in this update also require certain disclosures about stranded tax effects. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018

with early adoption permitted, including interim periods within that fiscal year. Accordingly, this guidance will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning

October 1, 2019.

The Company expects that the adoption of this ASU will

not

have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

February 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

02,

Leases (Topic

842

)

, which issued new guidance related to leases that outlines a comprehensive lease accounting model and supersedes the current lease guidance. The new guidance requires lessees to recognize lease liabilities and corresponding right-of-use assets for all leases with lease terms of greater than

months. It also changes the definition of a lease and expands the disclosure requirements of lease arrangements. The new guidance must be adopted using the modified retrospective approach and will be effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning

October 1, 2019.

Although the Company has

not

completed its assessment of the full impact on its consolidated financial statements of the adoption of Topic

842,

the Company currently believes that the most significant changes will be related to the recognition of a right-to-use asset and a corresponding lease liability on its consolidated balance sheet for the new facility lease described in Note

13,

Commitments and Contingencies.

New pronouncements adopted

November 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

18,

Statement of Cash Flows (Topic

230

), Restricted Cash,

which amends Topic

230

to add or clarify guidance on the classification and presentation of restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. The standard requires that a statement of cash flows explain the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. Therefore, 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. The provisions of this guidance are to be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. ASU

No.

2016

was effective for annual reporting periods beginning after

December 15, 2017,

and interim periods within those years, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU

No.

2016

effective

January 1, 2018.

For the year ended

September 30, 2018

and the

nine

months ended

June 30, 2019,

restricted cash balances are due to a security deposit for the Company’s new office lease, as described in Note

13,

Commitments and Contingencies, and restricted cash held as collateral for notes payable, as described in Note

11,

Debt. The adoption did

not

have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows, other than the impact discussed above.

March 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

09,

Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic

718

): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting

. This guidance changes how companies account for certain aspects of share-based payments to employees. Among other things, under the new guidance, companies will

longer record excess tax benefits and certain tax deficiencies in additional paid-in-capital (“APIC”), but will instead record such items as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement, and APIC pools will be eliminated. Companies will apply this guidance prospectively. Another component of the new guidance allows companies to make an accounting policy election for the impact of forfeitures on the recognition of expense for share-based payment awards, whereby forfeitures can be estimated, as required today, or recognized when they occur. If elected, the change to recognize forfeitures when they occur needs to be adopted using a modified retrospective approach. The guidance was effective for the Company in the

first

quarter of fiscal

2018.

The adoption of this standard resulted in the recognition of

$1.1

million of gross deferred tax assets related to the historical excess tax benefits from stock based compensation that was

not

previously included in deferred tax assets and a corresponding increase in the Company’s valuation allowance.

May 2014,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2014

09,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers

(“ASU

2014

09”

), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. ASU

2014

will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles when it becomes effective. In

July 2015,

the FASB deferred the effective date of the standard by an additional year; however, it provided companies the option to adopt

one

year earlier, commensurate with the original effective date. Accordingly, the standard was effective for the Company in the fiscal year beginning

October 1, 2018.

Subsequently, the FASB issued additional guidance (ASUs

2015

14;

2016

08;

2016

10;

2016

12;

2016

13;

2016

). The adoption of this guidance by the Company, effective

October 1, 2018,

did

not

have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements (see Note

Revenue Recognition, for further detail).