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Note 3 - New Accounting Standards
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
NOTE
3
– NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
 
Adoption of New Accounting Standards
 
FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
2016
-
09,
Stock Compensation - Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting
 
On
January 1, 2017,
we adopted the amendments to accounting standards codification (“ASC”)
718
which simplify accounting for share-based payment transactions. Prior to this amendment, excess tax benefits resulting from the difference between the deduction for tax purposes and the compensation costs recognized for financial reporting were
not
recognized until the deduction reduced taxes payable. Under the new method, we will recognize excess tax benefits in the current accounting period. In addition, prior to
January 1, 2017,
the employee share-based compensation expense was recorded net of estimated forfeiture rates and subsequently adjusted at the vesting date, as appropriate. As part of the amendment, we have elected to recognize the actual forfeitures by reducing the employee share-based compensation expense in the same period as the forfeitures occur.
 
Accounting Standards Issued But
Not
Yet Adopted
 
In
February 2016,
the FASB issued an ASU which requires lessees to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities arising from operating leases on the balance sheet. This ASU is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2018
using a modified retrospective approach, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the standard to determine the impact of its adoption on its consolidated financial statements. The Company will record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability upon adoption.
 
In
January 2016,
the FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
01,
Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, to mainly change the accounting for investments in equity securities and financial liabilities carried at fair value as well as to modify the presentation and disclosure requirements for financial instruments. The ASU is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2017,
with early adoption permitted. Adoption of the ASU is retrospective with a cumulative adjustment to retained earnings or accumulated deficit as of the adoption date. The Company believes that the adoption of this pronouncement will
not
have an impact on the Company’s financial statements.
 
In
May 2014,
the FASB issued an ASU which supersedes the most current revenue recognition requirements. The new revenue recognition standard requires entities to recognize revenue in a way that depicts the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration which the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services. This guidance is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after
December 15, 2017.
The Company is still in its startup phase and is
not
generating revenues at this time; therefore, this standard will have
no
impact on its consolidated financial statements until such time as revenues are generated. When revenues are generated, the Company will follow the provisions of the new standard.