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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
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Mar. 30, 2018
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Note 2 – Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2017 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) amended its guidance on the financial reporting of hedging relationships.  The new guidance eliminates the requirement to separately measure and report hedge ineffectiveness, expands permissible cash flow hedges on contractually specified components, and simplifies hedge documentation and effectiveness assessment.  The guidance will be effective at the beginning of the Company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2020 and will require a modified retrospective approach on existing cash flow and net investment hedges.  The presentation and disclosure requirements will be applied prospectively.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact this guidance will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the timing of adoption.

In March 2017 the FASB issued new guidance on the presentation of the net periodic cost of postretirement benefit programs.  The new standard requires sponsors of defined benefit postretirement plans to present the non-service cost components of net periodic benefit cost separate from the service cost component on the income statement.  The new standard also requires that the non-service cost components of net periodic benefit cost no longer be capitalized within assets.  The Company is evaluating the effects the standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures beyond the change in income statement presentation.  This new standard is effective for the Company in fiscal year 2019, with early adoption permitted.

In January 2017 the FASB issued new guidance regarding the goodwill impairment test.  The new guidance eliminates the Step 2 valuation test when evaluating goodwill for impairment.  The new guidance requires that an entity performs its annual or interim goodwill test by comparing the fair value of the reporting unit with its carrying amount.  An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value.  The loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit.  The guidance is effective for the Company in fiscal year 2021, with early adoption permitted.  The standard was implemented in the first quarter of fiscal 2018.

In October 2016 the FASB issued new guidance regarding income taxes.  The new guidance will require the tax effects of intercompany transactions, other than sales of inventory, to be recognized currently, eliminating an exception under current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in which the tax effects of intra-entity asset transfers are deferred until the transferred asset is sold to a third party or otherwise recovered through use.  The Company is evaluating the effect the updated standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.  The guidance will be effective for the Company in fiscal year 2019, with early adoption permitted.

In August 2016 the FASB issued new guidance addressing how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows.  The Company is evaluating the effect the updated standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.  The guidance will be effective for the Company in fiscal year 2019, with early adoption permitted.

In June 2016 the FASB issued a new standard on the measurement of credit losses, which will impact the Company’s measurement of trade receivables.  The new standard replaces the current incurred loss model with a forward-looking expected loss model that is likely to result in earlier recognition of losses.  The Company is evaluating the effect the updated standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.  The new standard is effective for the Company in 2021, with early adoption permitted, but not earlier than 2020.

In February 2016 the FASB issued a new lease accounting standard, which provides revised guidance on accounting for lease arrangements by both lessors and lessees.  The central requirement of the new standard is that lessees must recognize lease-related assets and liabilities for all leases with a term longer than 12 months.  The Company is evaluating the effect the standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.  The new standard is effective for the Company in fiscal year 2020, with early adoption permitted.

In July 2015 the FASB issued guidance which simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventory by requiring inventory to be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value.  Net realizable value is the estimated selling price of inventory in the ordinary course of business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal and transportation.  This new guidance was adopted in the first quarter of fiscal 2018, with no impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

Revenue Recognition

In May 2014 the FASB issued a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard that effectively replaces all current guidance on the topic.  The guidance permits the use of either a retrospective or a cumulative effect transition method.

The Company has performed a review of the new guidance against the Company’s current accounting practices.  The Company has reviewed a representative sample of contracts and other agreements with customers and evaluated the provisions contained within these agreements compared with the amended guidance.

This amended guidance is expected to change the revenue recognition practices for a number of revenue streams across our businesses; the most significant will be for certain U.S. government contracts and certain other contracts that meet one or more of the mandatory criteria, which will move revenue recognition from a “point-in-time” basis to an “over-time” basis.  The ongoing effect of recording revenue on an “over-time” basis is not expected to be materially different than under the historical guidance.

The amended guidance is also expected to change the recognition of certain development costs that are contractually guaranteed for reimbursement by our customers.  Contractually guaranteed reimbursements for development efforts are currently recognized as the development activities are performed.  Under the amended guidance, the contractually guaranteed reimbursement specific to the development effort will be deferred as a contract liability and recognized as revenue when future products are delivered to the customer in cases where the Company does not transfer all intellectual property rights related to the development effort to the customer or does not have an enforceable right to payment for performance completed to date.  The costs associated with development effort under an arrangement with contractually guaranteed reimbursement will also be deferred, up to the amount reimbursed, and recognized through cost of goods sold as products are delivered to the customer.  The ongoing effect of deferring contractually guaranteed reimbursements and the related costs until products are delivered to the customer is not expected to be materially different than under the historical guidance.

The new standard also significantly enhances required disclosures regarding revenue and related assets and liabilities.  The Company is in the process of implementing changes to business processes, systems and internal controls required to adopt the new accounting standard.

The updated standard becomes effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, with early adoption permitted.  The Company expects to apply the standard using the cumulative effect transition basis, with a cumulative effect adjustment recognized at the beginning of fiscal year 2019.