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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Income Taxes  
Income Taxes

Note 11.  Income Taxes

 

Income tax expense relates principally to operating results of foreign entities in jurisdictions, primarily in Europe and Asia, where the Company earns taxable income. The Company has significant net operating losses in the United States and certain other tax jurisdictions and, as a result, does not pay significant income taxes in those jurisdictions.

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company’s valuation allowance related to income taxes was approximately $147.5 million.  The Company is in a three year cumulative loss position in the United States.  As a result, the Company maintains a 100% valuation allowance to reduce the carrying value of the related deferred tax assets to zero.  The Company will continue to maintain a full valuation allowance for those tax assets until sustainable future levels of profitability are evident.

 

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) Number 2013-11 in July 2013 which requires that a reserve for an unrecognized tax benefit be presented as a reduction to a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax loss, or a tax credit carryforward with certain exceptions.  We have adopted this ASU effective January 1, 2014.  This adoption did not have a material impact on our consolidated balance sheets.