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Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
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Significant Accounting Policies

 

 

2.                       NOTE 2: SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

New accounting standard updates – not adopted yet

 

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The standard requires the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases. Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition. The standard requires lessors to classify leases as either sales-type, finance or operating. A sales-type lease occurs if the lessor transfers all of the risks and rewards, as well as control of the underlying asset, to the lessee. If risks and rewards are conveyed without the transfer of control, the lease is treated as a financing lease. If the lessor does not convey risks and rewards or control, an operating lease results. The standard will become effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2019. The Company is currently assessing the impact adoption of this standard will have on its consolidated results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, and financial statement disclosures.

 

In August 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Updates (ASU) 2014-15 requiring an entity’s management to evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued (or within one year after the date that the financial statements are available to be issued when applicable). The amendments to (ASU) 2014-15 are effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter. Early application is permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the prospective impact that (ASU) 2014-15 will have on its balance sheet.

 

New accounting standard updates - adopted

 

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Updates (ASU) 2015-03 which requires that debt issuance costs be reported in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the face amount of the related liability, consistent with the presentation of debt discounts. Prior to the amendments, debt issuance costs were presented as a deferred charge (i.e., an asset) on the balance sheet. The ASU provides examples illustrating the balance sheet presentation of notes net of their related discounts and debt issuance costs. Further, the amendments require the amortization of debt issuance costs to be reported as interest expense. Similarly, debt issuance costs and any discount or premium is considered in the aggregate when determining the effective interest rate on the debt. The amendments are effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The application of this ASU resulted in the reclassification of debt issuance cost and the relating amortization.

 

The Company had unamortized debt issuance costs of $2,375,877 and $2,995,209 as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. The Company reclassified amortization of debt issuance cost and commissions in the amount of $792,583 and $674,617 to interest expense for the three- months’ periods ended September 30, 2016 and September 30, 2015, respectively.

 

 

 

 

2.             SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - CONTINUED

 

New accounting standard updates – adopted - continued

 

This ASU was applied retrospectively for all periods presented.

 

In August 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Updates (ASU) 2016-15 which clarifies how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows. The amendments are intended to reduce diversity in practice. As the update specifies presentation in certain particular cases, they have no impact on the company’s financial statement as of September 30, 2016, respectively.