Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include all of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

The information furnished in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements includes normal recurring adjustments and reflects all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations and statements of financial position for the interim periods presented. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) have been omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. We believe that the disclosures are adequate to prevent the information presented from being misleading when read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of our Annual Report on Form

10-K

for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (the “2019 Form

10-K”),

as filed with the SEC on February 27, 2020. The December 31, 2019 Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet data herein was derived from the audited consolidated financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP.

Our interim operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in future operating quarters.

Note 2 to the audited consolidated financial statements in our 2019 Form

10-K

describes the significant accounting policies and estimates used in preparation of the audited consolidated financial statements. Other than the recently implemented accounting policies described below, there have been no changes to our significant accounting policies during the three or nine months ended September 30, 2020.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements


Standard	Effective Date	Adoption
ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326)	January 1, 2020	This pronouncement and subsequently-issued amendments change the accounting for credit losses on available-for-sale debt securities and purchased financial assets with credit deterioration. In addition, these amendments require the measurement of all expected credit losses for financial assets, including trade accounts receivable, held at the reporting date based on historical experience, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. See Note 4, Credit Losses, for further information.

ASU 2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment	January 1, 2020	This ASU addresses concerns over the cost and complexity of the two-step goodwill impairment test by removing the second step of the goodwill impairment test. Going forward, we will apply a one-step quantitative test and record the amount of goodwill impairment as the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value, not to exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit.

ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement	January 1, 2020	This pronouncement amends Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820 to eliminate, add and modify certain disclosure requirements for fair value measurements. The adoption of this standard did not impact our financial statements or have a material effect on our disclosures.

ASU 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform: Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (Topic 848)	Effective upon issuance	This pronouncement contains optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions affected by reference rate reform. The provisions of ASC 848 must be applied at a Topic, Subtopic or Industry Subtopic for all transactions other than derivatives, which may be applied at a hedging relationship level. The relief granted in ASC 848 is applicable only to legacy contracts if the amendments made to the agreements are solely for reference rate reform activities. We elected to apply the hedge accounting expedients related to probability and the assessments of effectiveness for future LIBOR-indexed cash flows to assume that the index upon which future hedged transactions will be based matches the index on the corresponding derivatives. Application of these expedients preserves the presentation of derivatives consistent with past presentation. We continue to evaluate the impact of the guidance and may apply other elections as applicable as additional changes in the market occur.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

We are currently evaluating the impact of certain ASU’s on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements or Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, which are described below:


Standard	Description	Effective Date	Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740), Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes	This pronouncement simplifies the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles of Topic 740 and improves the consistent application of GAAP by clarifying and amending existing guidance.	Annual periods beginning after December 15, 2020, including interim periods therein. Early adoption is permitted.	We are currently assessing the impact of adoption on our consolidated financial statements.