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New Authoritative Standards
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New Authoritative Standards  
New Authoritative Standards

 

14.           New Authoritative Standards

 

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” ASU 2014-09 is a comprehensive new revenue recognition model that requires a company to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of goods or services to a customer at an amount that reflects the consideration it expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. The ASU also requires expanded disclosures about revenue recognition. In adopting ASU 2014-09, companies may use either a full retrospective or a modified retrospective approach.  ASU 2014-09 was to be effective for the first interim period within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and early adoption was not permitted.  In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-14, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Deferral of the Effective Date”, which defers the effective date of ASU 2014-09 for all entities by one year, while allowing early adoption as of the original public entity date.  In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-08, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net),” which clarifies the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing,” which amends the revenue recognition guidance on accounting for licenses of intellectual property and identifying performance obligations as well as clarifies when a promised good or service is separately identifiable. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-12, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients,” which provides clarifying guidance in certain narrow areas such as an assessment of collectibility, presentation of sales taxes, noncash consideration, and completed contracts and contract modifications at transition as well as adds some practical expedients. In December 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-20, “Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers,” to clarify or to correct unintended application of the Topic 606, including disclosure requirements related to performance obligations. The effective date and transition of these amendments is the same as the effective date and transition of ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers,” as amended by the one-year deferral and early adoption provisions in ASU 2015-14. The Company is primarily engaged in the business of selling consumable and general merchandise and seasonal products. Revenues from the sale of such products are recognized at the point of sale. To date, the Company has performed a preliminary detailed review of key contracts and compared historical accounting policies and practices to the new standard. While the Company is still evaluating this standard, it is not expected that this standard will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The Company will continue to evaluate ASU 2014-09 and other amendments and related interpretive guidance through the date of adoption. The Company expects to adopt ASU 2014-09 under the modified retrospective approach in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.

 

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-11, “Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory.”  This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventories by replacing the lower of cost or market test with a lower of cost or net realizable value test.  Net realizable value is defined as the estimated selling prices in the ordinary course of business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal and transportation.  The guidance is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. This ASU should be applied prospectively.  The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 and such adoption did not have an impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, “Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities.” This ASU revises an entity’s accounting on the classification and measurement of financial instruments. Although the ASU retains many current requirements, it significantly revises an entity’s accounting related to (1) the classification and measurement of investments in equity securities and (2) the presentation of certain fair value changes for financial liabilities measured at fair value. The ASU also amends certain disclosure requirements associated with the fair value of financial instruments. This ASU becomes effective for public entities in the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is not permitted except for the provisions related to the presentation of certain fair value changes for financial liabilities measured at fair value. The Company will adopt ASU 2016-01 in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and such adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, “Leases,” which requires lessees to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, for all leases, with the exception of short-term leases, at the commencement date of each lease.  This ASU requires lessees to apply a dual approach, classifying leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle of whether or not the lease is effectively a financed purchase by the lessee.  This classification will determine whether lease expense is recognized based on an effective interest method or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.  This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and interim periods within those annual periods.  Early adoption is permitted.  The amendments of this update should be applied using a modified retrospective approach, which requires lessees and lessors to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements and is anticipating a material impact on its consolidated financial statements because the Company is party to a significant number of lease contracts.

 

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-04, “Recognition of Breakage for Certain Prepaid Stored-Value Products,” which is designed to provide guidance and eliminate diversity in the accounting for the de-recognition of financial liabilities related to certain prepaid stored-value products using a revenue-like breakage model.  Breakage should be recognized in proportion to the pattern of rights expected to be exercised by the product holder to the extent that it is probable a significant reversal of the recognized breakage amount will not subsequently occur. The new standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted, and is to be applied retrospectively or using a modified retrospective approach.  The Company will adopt ASU 2016-04 in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and such adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, “Compensation - Stock Compensation, Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting”. This ASU requires companies to recognize the income tax effects of awards in the income statement when the awards vest or are settled. The guidance requires companies to present excess tax benefits as an operating activity and cash paid to a taxing authority to satisfy statutory withholding as a financing activity on the statement of cash flows. The guidance will also allow entities to make an alternative policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur.  This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted for any interim or annual period. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018. The Company made a policy election to account for forfeitures of share-based payments as they occur and implemented this provision using a modified retrospective transition.  There was no impact on retained earnings.  The Company also adopted other provisions of ASU 2016-09 in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 and the adoption of these provisions did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments”.  This ASU replaces the current incurred loss impairment methodology of recognizing credit losses when a loss is probable, with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to assess credit loss estimates. The standard will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted for periods after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments”, which addresses eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice.  This ASU is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted, and is to be applied retrospectively.  The adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In October 2016, the FASB has issued ASU No. 2016-17, “Interest Held through Related Parties that are under Common Control”, which provides guidance on the evaluation of whether a reporting entity is the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity (“VIE”) by amending how a reporting entity, that is a single decision maker of a VIE, treats indirect interests in that entity held through related parties that are under common control. This ASU is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted.  The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 and such adoption did not have an impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In October 2016 the FASB has issued ASU No. 2016-16, “Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory”, which requires entities to recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset, other than inventory, when the transfer occurs. The new standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted as of the beginning of a fiscal year. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, “Restricted Cash”, which requires that the 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 amendments in this ASU do not provide a definition of restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. The guidance is effective for periods beginning after December 15, 2017 on a retrospective basis, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

 

On December 2016, FASB issued ASU 2016-19, “Technical Corrections and Improvements”, which includes amendments related to differences between original guidance and the Accounting Standards Codification, guidance clarification and reference corrections, simplifications to the Accounting Standards Codification, and minor improvements to the guidance. The amendments of the standard that require transition guidance are effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and early adoption is permitted. All other amendments were effective immediately. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 and such adoption did not have an impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In January 2017 the FASB issued ASU No.  2017-01 “Business Combinations: Clarifying the Definition of a Business”, revises the definition of a business and may affect acquisitions, disposals, goodwill impairment and consolidation. The new guidance specifies that when substantially all of the fair value of gross assets acquired is concentrated in a single asset (or a group of similar assets), the assets acquired would not represent a business. The changes to the definition of a business in this guidance will likely result in more acquisitions being accounted for as asset acquisitions and would also affect the accounting for disposal transactions. This guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted.  The adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.

 

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-04, “Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment”, which simplifies the goodwill impairment testing by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment testing required, should an impairment be discovered during its annual or interim assessment. The new standard is effective for annual or interim impairment tests beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In February 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-05, “Clarifying the Scope of Asset Derecognition Guidance and Accounting for Partial Sales of Nonfinancial Assets”, which provides clarification about the term “in substance nonfinancial asset” and guidance for recognizing gains and losses from the transfer of nonfinancial assets and for partial sales of nonfinancial assets. The new standard is effective for public entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017 and interim periods therein. Entities may use either a full or modified approach to adopt the standard.  The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, “Scope of Modification Accounting”, which clarifies when changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award must be accounted for as modifications. The new guidance is intended to reduce diversity in practice and result in fewer changes to the terms of an award being accounted for as modifications. Under the new standard, an entity will not apply modification accounting to a share-based payment award if the award’s fair value, vesting conditions and classification as an equity or liability instrument are the same immediately before and after the change. The new standard will be applied prospectively to awards modified on or after the adoption date. The guidance is effective for annual periods, and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the Company or its consolidated financial statements.