2. Significant Accounting Policies

Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted

In August 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2017-12 – Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities. This ASU amends the hedge accounting guidance to simplify the application of hedge accounting, makes more financial and nonfinancial hedging strategies eligible for hedge accounting treatment, changes how companies assess effectiveness and updates presentation and disclosure requirements. We early adopted this ASU in the first quarter of 2018. Based upon our hedging portfolio that existed prior to adoption, the adoption of this ASU did not have any impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. However, after adoption we entered into cross-currency interest rate swaps that we designated as net investment hedges. Under this ASU, we have made a policy election for changes in the fair value of the cross-currency component of the cross-currency interest rate swaps to be recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income. Therefore, all changes in the fair value of the cross-currency interest rate swaps are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss in the condensed consolidated balance sheet. The portion of this change related to the excluded component will be amortized into earnings over the life of the derivative while the remainder will be recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss until the hedged net investment is sold or substantially liquidated. Under previous guidance, the fair value change related to the cross-currency component was recognized in earnings. See Note 11 for additional information.

In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02 – Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. Under GAAP, when there is a change in tax rates, it requires remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities to be recognized as part of income, even if the deferred tax asset or liability had been recorded and recognized in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”). As a result, a portion of the amount recognized in AOCI at the previous tax rate would remain stranded in AOCI permanently. ASU 2018-02 allows the stranded tax effects in AOCI related only to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“2017 Tax Act”) to be reclassified from AOCI to retained earnings. The only stranded tax effects in AOCI we had related to the 2017 Tax Act were due to changes in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate. We early adopted this ASU in the first quarter of 2018 and elected to use the beginning of period transition method, which means we recognized the reclassification as of January 1, 2018. As a result, we reclassified $42.9 million from AOCI to retained earnings.

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-07 – Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost. This ASU requires us to report the service cost component of pensions in the same location as other compensation costs arising from services rendered by the pertinent employees during the period. We are required to report the other components of net benefit costs in other income (expense) in the statement of earnings. This ASU was effective for us as of January 1, 2018. This ASU must be applied retrospectively for the presentation of the service cost component and the other components of net periodic pension cost in the statement of earnings and prospectively, on and after the effective date, for the capitalization of the service cost component of net periodic pension cost in assets. This ASU provides a practical expedient that allows companies to use the amounts disclosed in prior financial statements as the basis for the retrospective application. We elected to use this practical expedient. The impacts of this ASU on our condensed consolidated financial statements for the three month period ended March 31, 2017 are included in the tables below. See Note 13 for further information on the components of our net benefit cost.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09 – Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This ASU provides a five-step model for revenue recognition that all industries will apply to recognize revenue when a customer obtains control of a good or service. This ASU was effective for us as of January 1, 2018. Entities were permitted to apply the standard and related amendments either retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the ASU recognized at the date of initial application. We adopted this new standard using the retrospective method, which resulted in us restating prior reporting periods presented. This ASU did not result in a change to the timing of our revenue recognition. However, we were required to reclassify certain immaterial costs from selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expense to net sales, which resulted in a reduction of net sales, but had no impact on operating profit or retained earnings. This ASU also required us to reclassify our estimated refund liability for products expected to be returned from a reduction of accounts receivable to other current liabilities and the related right to receive products from the return from inventories to prepaid expenses and other current assets. The impacts of this ASU on our condensed consolidated financial statements for the three month period ended March 31, 2017 and as of December 31, 2017 are included in the tables below.

				New			New
	As			Revenue			Pension
	Previously			Standard			Standard			As
(in millions)	Reported			Adjustment			Adjustment			Restated
Statement of Earnings
Three Months Ended March 31, 2017


Net Sales	$	1,977.3		$	(4.9	)	$	-		$	1,972.4
Selling, general and administrative		760.8			(4.9	)		2.3			758.2
Operating expenses		1,626.9			(4.9	)		2.3			1,624.3
Operating Profit		350.4			-			(2.3	)		348.1
Other expense, net		(2.8	)		-			2.3			(0.5	)

			New
	As		Revenue
	Previously		Standard			As
(in millions)	Reported		Adjustment			Restated
Balance Sheet
December 31, 2017

Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts	$	1,494.6	$	49.5		$	1,544.1
Inventories		2,081.8		(13.5	)		2,068.3
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		414.5		13.5			428.0
Other current liabilities		1,143.6		49.5			1,094.1

Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 – Leases. This ASU requires lessees to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet. This ASU will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. Based on current guidance, this ASU must be adopted using a modified retrospective transition approach at the beginning of the earliest comparative period in the consolidated financial statements. We own most of our manufacturing facilities, but lease various office space, vehicles and other less significant assets throughout the world. We have formed our project team and have begun a process to collect the necessary information to implement this ASU. We will continue evaluating our leases and the related impact this ASU will have on our consolidated financial statements throughout 2018.

There are no other recently issued accounting pronouncements that we have not yet adopted that are expected to have a material effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.