Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Allowance for doubtful accounts activity

Activity in our allowance for doubtful accounts was comprised of the following for the periods indicated:



	Year ended December 31,
	2016			2015			2014
	(In thousands)
Beginning balance	$	1,856		$	1,947		$	1,405
Additions	368			17			670
Deductions	(1,133		)	(108		)	(128		)
Ending balance	$	1,091		$	1,856		$	1,947

Property, plant and equipment estimated useful lives

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment is recognized on a straight-line basis over the following estimated useful lives:



Class of assets		Useful life
Buildings and improvements		5 to 40 years
Machinery, equipment, and furniture and fixtures		3 to 10 years
Leasehold improvements		Shorter of asset life or term of lease

Schedule of antidilutive securities excluded from computation of EPS

The following table presents instruments which were not dilutive and were excluded from the computation of diluted EPS in each period, as well as the weighted average dilutive common stock equivalent shares which were included in the computation of diluted EPS:



	Year ended December 31,
	2016	2015	2014
	(In thousands)
Non-dilutive instruments	45	15	—
Dilutive common stock equivalents	95	154	246