RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 3 — RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

New Accounting Standards Recently Adopted

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or the FASB, issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2015-03, Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issue Costs. The new guidance requires entities to present debt issue costs in the balance sheet as a direct reduction to the related debt liability rather than as a deferred cost (i.e., an asset) as required by past guidance. The new guidance does not change the recognition or measurement of debt issuance costs. The Company adopted the standard retrospectively in the first quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, or fiscal 2017. The adoption did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Issued Standards Not Yet Adopted

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, the authoritative guidance that changes the criteria for recognizing revenue from a contract with a customer. The new revenue recognition standard replaces existing guidance on revenue recognition, including most industry specific guidance, with a five step model for recognizing and measuring revenue from contracts with customers. The objective of the new standard is to provide a single, comprehensive revenue recognition model for all contracts with customers to improve comparability within industries, across industries and across capital markets. The underlying principle is that an entity will recognize revenue to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers at an amount that the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services. The guidance also requires a number of disclosures regarding the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and the related cash flows. The guidance can be applied retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (full retrospective method) or retrospectively with a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings for initial application of the guidance at the date of initial adoption (modified retrospective method). We are currently assessing the impacts this guidance may have on our Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures. The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2017. We do not plan to early adopt the standard.

In December 2016 the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-20, Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or ASU 2016-20. The amendments in ASU 2016-20 update and affect narrow aspects of the guidance issued in ASU 2014-09. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Narrow Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients, which provided revised guidance on certain issues relating to revenue from contracts with customers, including clarification of the objective of the collectability criterion. In March 2016, the FASB issued a final amendment to clarify the implementation guidance for principal versus agent considerations and in April 2016 issued a final amendment to clarify the guidance related to identifying performance obligations and the accounting for intellectual property licenses. We are currently evaluating the impact these updates may have on our Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures.

Other significant new standards not yet adopted are set forth in detail in Note 3 to the 2016 Form 10-K.