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Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
The Company’s significant accounting policies are as follows:
Basis of presentation
These unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements reflect the historical balance sheets, statements of operations and of comprehensive income, statements of changes in shareholders’ equity and statements of cash flows of the Company.
The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). All dollar amounts, except per-share data in the text and tables herein, are stated in millions unless otherwise indicated. Material intercompany balances and transactions among the Company and its consolidated Affiliates are eliminated in consolidation.
The Company has revised certain amounts in prior-period financial statements to conform to the current period’s presentation. The Company changed the presentation of the purchase and sale of investments by its consolidated Funds within cash flows from investing activities in the prior period’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows to conform to the current period’s presentation of showing such purchase and sale of investments within cash flows from operating activities. The change had no impact on the total cash provided by or used in operating, investing or financing activities within the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows or any impact on the other Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Certain disclosures included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 (annual report or Form 10-K) are not required to be included on an interim basis in the Company’s quarterly reports on Forms 10-Q. The Company has condensed or omitted these disclosures. These unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2018 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 28, 2019. The Company’s significant accounting policies, which have been consistently applied, are summarized in those financial statements.
Recently adopted accounting standards
In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-02, “Leases” (“Topic 842”). Topic 842 requires that lessees recognize right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for all leases with a lease term greater than 12 months. The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach, without restating prior comparative periods. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases.

The Company recorded a ROU asset of approximately $44.2 million and a lease liability of approximately $49.9 million, primarily related to real estate operating leases on January 1, 2019, with no cumulative-effect adjustment to opening retained earnings. The initial recognition of ROU asset and lease liability represented a non-cash activity. The adoption of the new standard had a material impact on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet, but did not have an impact on our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.

The package of three practical expedients applicable to the Company have been elected which resulted in the Company not having to reassess whether expired or existing contracts upon adoption contained a lease. It also allowed the Company to retain the historical classifications of our leases and initial direct costs. The Company has also made an accounting policy election to apply short-term exemption to leases that meet the definition of short-term leases under the new standard.

On January 1, 2019, the Company early adopted ASU 2018-15, Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract, which aligns 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. The capitalized implementation costs will be expensed over the term of the hosting arrangement. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Leases
The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. The Company’s leases qualify as operating leases and consist primarily of corporate offices, data centers, vehicles and certain equipment. Operating lease liabilities are included in Other liabilities and ROU assets are included in Other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at commencement date. As the leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The Company uses the implicit rate when readily determinable.
The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentives and initial direct costs incurred. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option. Lease expense for minimum lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The Company elected both at transition and on an ongoing basis, to combine lease and non-lease components in calculating the lease liability and ROU asset for all operating leases.