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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]  
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standard Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) ("ASC 606"). This standard update, along with related subsequently issued updates, clarifies the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for GAAP. The standard update also amends current guidance for the recognition of costs to obtain and fulfill contracts with customers such that incremental costs of obtaining and direct costs of fulfilling contracts with customers will be deferred and amortized consistent with the transfer of the related good or service. ASC 606 intends to provide a more robust framework for addressing revenue issues; improve comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdictions, and capital markets; and provide more useful information to users of financial statements through improved disclosure requirements. The Company adopted this guidance on January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective method. Following the adoption of this guidance, the revenue recognition for our sales arrangements remained materially consistent with our historical practice. For more information, see Note 3, "Revenues."
 
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases, (Topic 842) which states that a lessee should recognize the assets and liabilities that arise from leases. The guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Earlier adoption is permitted.

Based on the results of our assessment to date, we anticipate this standard will have an impact, which could be significant, on our consolidated financial statements. While we are continuing to assess all potential impacts of the standard, we currently believe the most significant impact relates to recognition of a right-of-use asset and lease liability. The lease liability will be initially measured at the present value of the lease payment; the asset will be based on the liability, subject to adjustment, such as for initial direct costs. Consistent with current guidance, the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification. For income statement purposes, operating leases will result in a straight-line expense while finance leases will result in a front-loaded expense pattern.

The Company currently plans to adopt this standard using the modified retrospective transition approach with optional practical expedients. The Company is continuing to assess all potential impacts of the standard, the impact of the standard on current accounting policies, practices and system of internal controls, in order to identify material differences, if any, that would result from applying the new requirements.

On August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments, a consensus of the FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force. The new guidance is intended to reduce diversity in practice in how certain transactions are classified in the statement of cash flows. We adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and it did not have a significant impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

On January 2017, the FASB issued final guidance that revises the definition of a business, ASU No. 2017-01: Clarifying the Definition of a Business (Topic 805). The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting (e.g., acquisitions, disposals, goodwill impairment, or consolidation). The guidance requires an entity to evaluate if substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or a group of similar identifiable assets; if so, the set of transferred assets and activities is not a business. The guidance also requires a business to include at least one substantive process and narrows the definition of outputs by more closely aligning it with how outputs are described in ASC 606. We adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and it did not impact our condensed consolidated financial statements.

On May 2017, the FASB issued guidance ASU No. 2017-09: Scope of Modification Accounting (Topic 718), to clarify when to account for a change to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award as a modification. Under the new guidance, modification accounting is required only if the fair value, the vesting conditions, or the classification of the award (as equity or liability) changes as a result of the change in terms or conditions. We adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018 and it did not impact our condensed consolidated financial statements.