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Note 13 - Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
NOTE
13
– RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
In
February 2016,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued a new accounting standard regarding leases.  The new standard establishes a right-of-use (ROU) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than
12
months.  Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement.  The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2018,
including interim periods within those fiscal years.  The Company adopted the new lease standard on
December 31, 2018,
using the modified retrospective approach and recorded operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities for approximately
$115
million respectively, with
no
cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings. The Company elected to apply the practical expedients allowed by the standard, which resulted in the Company
not
having to reassess whether expired or existing contracts contained a lease as well as retaining the historical classification of our leases. The Company also elected the hindsight practical expedient in evaluating lessee options and elected to combine lease and non-lease components in calculating the right-of-use asset and lease liability for all leases, except data center assets. See Note
8
entitled “Leases” for additional information.
 
In
January 2017,
the FASB issued a new accounting standard that provides for the elimination of Step
2
from the goodwill impairment test. Under the new guidance, impairment charges are recognized to the extent the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value with certain limitations. The new guidance is effective for any annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2019.
Early adoption is permitted. The Company does
not
anticipate that the adoption of the new guidance will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
February 2018,
the FASB issued a new accounting standard to address a narrow-scope financial reporting issue that arose as a consequence of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Existing guidance requires that deferred tax liabilities and assets be adjusted for a change in tax laws or rates with the effect included in income from continuing operations in the reporting period that includes the enactment date. That guidance is applicable even in situations in which the related income tax effects of items in accumulated other comprehensive income were originally recognized in other comprehensive income (rather than in net income), such as amounts related to benefit plans and hedging activity. As a result, the tax effects of items within accumulated other comprehensive income do
not
reflect the appropriate tax rate (the difference is referred to as stranded tax effects). The new guidance allows for a reclassification of these amounts to retained earnings, thereby eliminating these stranded tax effects. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2018.
The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as the Company did
not
elect to reclassify stranded tax effects into retained earnings.
 
In
June 2018,
the FASB issued a new accounting standard to address non-employee share-based payments. This standard will require that the accounting treatment for non-employee share-based payments for goods or services be consistent with current GAAP for employee share-based payments, including measurement of awards at grant-date fair value and the application of probability to evaluate performance conditions. This standard will also eliminate the current GAAP requirement to reassess the classification of non-employee share-based payments awards upon vesting. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2018.
Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this guidance did
not
have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
In
August 2018,
the FASB issued a new accounting standard that modifies disclosure requirements related to fair value measurements. This standard eliminates the current requirement to disclose the amount or reason for transfers between level
1
and level
2
of the fair value hierarchy and the requirement to disclose the valuation methodology for level
3
fair value measurements. The standard includes additional disclosure requirements for level
3
fair value measurements, including the requirement to disclose the changes in unrealized gains and losses in other comprehensive income during the period and permits the disclosure of other relevant quantitative information for certain unobservable inputs. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2019.
Early adoption is permitted. The Company does
not
anticipate that the adoption of the new standard will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.
 
 In
August 2018,
the FASB issued a new accounting standard to align the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement service contract with the guidance to capitalize implementation costs of internal use software. This standard requires that the costs for implementation activities during the application development phase be capitalized in a hosting arrangement service contract, and costs during the preliminary and post implementation phase are expensed. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after
December 15, 2019.
Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard, but does
not
anticipate that the adoption will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.