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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES [Abstract]  
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Recent Accounting Guidance

In February 2016, the FASB issued guidance which changes the accounting for leases, ASU 2016-02, Leases.  Under prior GAAP, the recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease for us as a lessee depend primarily on the lease’s classification as a finance or operating lease.  For both types of leases, we will recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability.  For capital or finance leases, we will recognize amortization of the right-of-use asset separately from interest expense on the lease liability.  The guidance is effective for our annual and interim periods beginning in 2019 and must be adopted on a modified retrospective approach.  We have not yet determined the impact that the new guidance will have on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.  We do not intend to early adopt the guidance and have not yet determined if we will elect the optional practical expedients upon adoption.
 
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued guidance on revenue from contracts with customers to clarify the principles for recognizing revenue, ASU 2014-09, Revenue: Revenue from Contracts with Customers (and subsequent guidance to related to the topic in ASUs 2016-08, 2016-10, 2016-12. 2016-20, and 2017-14).  On January 1, 2018, we adopted the guidance using the modified retrospective method.  Upon completing our implementation assessment of the guidance, we concluded that no adjustment was required to the opening balance of retained earnings at the date of initial application.  As of and for the three months ended March 31, 2018, there were no differences between amounts recorded under this current guidance and what would have been recorded under the accounting standards in effect prior to January 1, 2018.  We applied the guidance to all contracts as of January 1 2018.  The comparative information has also not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for those periods.  Additional disclosures required by the guidance are presented within the Revenue Recognition policy disclosure below.  See Note 5. for revenue disaggregated by product line and geography.

Revenue RecognitionThe following summarizes our revenue recognition accounting policy effective January 1, 2018:

We account for a contract with a customer when the written contract is committed, the rights of the parties, including payment terms, are identified, the contract has commercial substance and consideration is probable of collection.  Substantially all of our revenue is derived by fulfilling customer orders for the purchase of our products under contracts which contain a single performance obligation, to supply continually defined quantities of product at fixed prices.  We account for shipping and handling activities that occur after the customer has obtained control of a good as a fulfillment cost rather than as an additional promised service.  We recognize revenue at the point in time that control of the ordered product(s) is transferred to the customer, which is upon delivery to the customer, or its designee at our location, a customer location or other customer-designated delivery point.  For substantially all of our contracts, control of the ordered product(s) transfers at our location.  Amounts invoiced to customers for shipping and handling are reported as revenues and the related costs incurred to deliver product to the customer are reported as cost of goods sold.

Amounts billed and due from our customers are classified as accounts receivables on our balance sheets and require payment on a short-term basis. Invoices are generally issued at the point control transfers and substantially all of our invoices due within 30 days or lessPeriodically, we require payment prior to the point in time we recognize revenue.  Amounts received from customers prior to revenue recognition on a contract are contract liabilities, are classified as unearned revenue on our balance sheets and are typically applied to an invoice within 30 days of receipt.  Revenues recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2018, include less than $0.1 million of included in unearned revenue as of January 1, 2018.

Revenue is measured as the amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for fulfilling product orders.  Incidental items that are immaterial in the context of the contract are recognized as expense.  Our contracts do not include a significant financing component.  Our contracts may include terms that could cause variability in the transaction price, including, for example, rebates and volume discounts, or other forms of contingent revenue.  The amount of consideration we expect to receive and revenue we recognize includes estimates of variable consideration, including costs for rebates and discounts.  If the consideration promised in a contract includes a variable amount, we estimate the amount to which we expect to be entitled using either the expected value or most likely amount method. We expect no costs from rebates, discounts, or other forms of variable consideration, related to revenues recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2018, and have no contract liabilities recorded for those items as of January 1, 2018 or March 31, 2018.

Changes in judgments and estimates regarding probability of collection and variable consideration might result in a change in the timing or amount of revenue recognized.

Incremental costs of obtaining a revenue contract are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over the expected customer relationship period if we expect to recover those costs.  As a practical expedient, we expense costs to obtain a contract as incurred if the amortization period would have been a year or less.  Typically, costs to incur revenue contracts are not significant.

Reclassifications Certain reclassifications have been made to amounts reported for the prior period to achieve consistent presentation with the current period.