XML 19 R8.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.19.1
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

2. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

Accounting Pronouncements Adopted January 1, 2019

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASU 2016-02”), which requires lessees to recognize leases on-balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. The objective of ASU 2016-02 is to address the concerns to increase the transparency around lease obligations. To address these concerns, previously unrecorded off-balance sheet obligations will now be brought more prominently to light by presenting lease liabilities on the face of the balance sheet. Accompanied by enhanced qualitative and quantitative disclosures in the notes to the financial statements, financial statement users will be able to more accurately compare information from one company to another. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (“ROU”) model that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases. Leases will be classified as finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern and classification of expense recognition in the income statement.

We adopted the new standard on its effective date, January 1, 2019, using a modified retrospective transition approach in which prior periods were not restated.

ASU 2016-02 and related guidance had no impact on our statement of operations or cash flows at adoption.

 

The most significant changes relate to: the recognition of new ROU operating lease assets of $26.3 million and operating lease liabilities of $26.5 million on our balance sheet as of January 1, 2019 for office equipment, real estate, and other assets as determined.

We elected all of the practical expedients afforded under ASU 2016-02 and related guidance, except for the practical expedient of “Hindsight” and lessee’s accounting of lease and non-lease components. The practical expedients we elected include: “the package” of practical expedients, land easements, lessors ability to combine lease and non-lease components and short-term leases. See Note 13.

Accounting Pronouncements with Future Adoption Dates

In June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 – Financial Instruments — Credit Losses (Topic 326) (“ASU 2016-13”). The main objective of ASU 2016-13 is to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments. ASU 2016-13 replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. ASU 2016-13 affects entities holding financial assets and net investment in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through net income including loans, debt securities, trade receivables, net investments in leases, and any other financial assets not excluded from the scope that have the contractual right to receive cash. ASU 2016-13 is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. We have not determined the impact that ASU 2016-13will have on our financial position, operations or cash flows.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04 – Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – (“ASU 2017-04”). ASU 2017-04 simplifies how an entity is required to test goodwill for impairment by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. A public business entity that is a SEC filer should adopt the amendments in this update for its annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect that ASU 2017-04 will have a material impact on our financial position, operations or cash flows upon adoption.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15 — Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service Contract (“ASU 2018-15”). The amendments in ASU 2018-15 align the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software (and hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license). The accounting for the service element of a hosting arrangement that is a service contract is not affected by the amendments in ASU 2018-15. We are still evaluating the impact of ASU 2018-15. The amendments in ASU 2018-15 are effective for us for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the amendments is permitted, including adoption in any interim period, for all entities. ASU 2018-15 can be applied either retrospectively or prospectively to all implementation costs incurred after the date of adoption.