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Note 3 - Recently Issued Accounting Standards
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
NOTE
3.
RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted

     In
July 2015,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
No.
2015
-
11,
Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory.
ASU
2015
-
11
requires inventory that is recorded using the
first
-in,
first
-out method to be measured at the lower of cost or net realizable value. We adopted ASU 
2015
-
11
prospectively in the
first
quarter of the current fiscal year, and the adoption has
not
had a significant impact on our financial statements.

     In
March 2016,
the FASB issued ASU
No.
2016
-
09,
Compensation—Stock Compensation
, which simplifies the accounting for the taxes related to stock based compensation, including adjustments to how excess tax benefits and a company’s payments for tax withholdings should be classified. We adopted ASU 
2016
-
09
prospectively in the
first
quarter of the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2018.
The adoption did
not
have a significant impact on our financial statements.

Future Accounting Pronouncements

     In
May 2014,
the FASB issued ASU 
No.
2014
-
09,
which supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Accounting Standards Codification
605,
Revenue Recognition
. ASU 
2014
-
09
is based on the principle that revenue is recognized to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. It also requires additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. The guidance permits
two
methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application. In
August 
2015,
the FASB issued ASU
No.
 
2015
-
14,
Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Deferral of the Effective Date
, which deferred the effective date of ASU 
2014
-
09
by
one
year. As a result, ASU 
2014
-
09
is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 
15,
2017
and interim periods within those fiscal years, which will be fiscal
2019
for us. We plan to adopt the guidance retrospectively with any effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application. Under this approach, we would
not
restate prior financial statements presented. Based on an evaluation, we do
not
expect there to be a material impact on our financial statements, because we do
not
expect to change the manner or timing of recognizing revenue. We have evaluated each of our revenue streams, product sales and contract research and development. We recognize revenue on product sales to customers and distributors when we satisfy our performance obligations as the products are shipped. We recognize contract research and development revenue pro-rata as work progresses using costs incurred relative to the total expected costs as the measurement basis for progress toward completion. We are currently evaluating the impact of new disclosure requirements required under the guidance.

     Information regarding all other applicable recently issued accounting standards, on which our position have
not
changed since our latest annual financial statements, are contained in the financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form
10
-K for the year ended
March 31, 2017.