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Recent Accounting Standards
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Accounting Changes And Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Standards

3. Recent Accounting Standards

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”), which requires the use of the current expected credit loss impairment model to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments, including trade receivables. The model requires an estimate of expected credit losses, measured over the contractual life of an asset, that considers information about past events, current conditions and a forecast of future economic conditions. The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2020. The adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

As a result of the adoption of ASU 2016-13, the Company has updated its significant accounting policy related to trade account receivables and allowances for credit losses as of March 31, 2020 from what was previously disclosed in our audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019 as follows:

 

All trade account receivables are reported net of allowances for credit losses. The allowances for credit losses represent management’s best estimate of the credit losses expected from our trade account receivables over the life of the underlying assets. Assets with similar risk characteristics are pooled together for determination of their current expected credit losses. We regularly perform detailed reviews of our pooled assets to evaluate the collectability of receivables based on a combination of past, current, and future financial and qualitative factors that may affect customers’ ability to pay. In circumstances where we are aware of a specific customer’s inability to meet its financial obligations, a specific reserve is recorded against amounts due to reduce the recognized receivable to the amount reasonably expected to be collected.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement (“ASU 2018-13”). The amendments in ASU 2018-13 modify the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements. The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2020. The adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”). This ASU provides relief from certain accounting consequences that could result from the global markets anticipated transition away from the use of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) and other interbank offered rates to alternative reference rates. The relief provided by this ASU is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The optional amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of the adoption of this standard to the Company.