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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS  
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 2: RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

ASU 2014-09 – Revenue from Contracts with Customers – In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) amended existing guidance related to revenue from contracts with customers. This amendment supersedes and replaces nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance, establishes a new control-based revenue recognition model, changes the basis for deciding when revenue is recognized over time or at a point in time, provides new and more detailed guidance on specific topics and expands and improves disclosures about revenue. In addition, this amendment specifies the accounting for some costs to obtain or fulfill a contract with a customer.

 

This amendment was originally effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-14, which deferred the effective date to annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim reporting periods within that reporting period. Early adoption is permitted as of the original effective date. The amendments should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented or retrospectively with the cumulative effect recognized at the date of initial application.

 

In March, April, May and December 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, ASU 2016-10, ASU 2016-12 and ASU 2016-20 to help to improve the operability and understandability of the implementation guidance. The amendments in these Updates do not change the core principles of the guidance outlined in ASU 2014-09 and do not change the effective dates outlined in ASU 2015-14. The Company continues to evaluate the impact of these new requirements on the consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2016-01 – Financial Instruments – In January 2016, the FASB released this Update to address certain aspects of recognition, presentation and disclosure of financial instruments. For public companies, the Update (1) requires that equity investments be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income, (2) simplifies the impairment assessment of equity investments without readily determinable fair values by permitting a qualitative assessment to identify impairment, (3) eliminates the requirement to disclose the method(s) and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value that is required to be disclosed for financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet, (4) requires entities to use the exit price notion when measuring the fair value of financial instruments for disclosure purposes, (5) requires an entity to present separately in other comprehensive income the portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability resulting from a change in the instrument-specific credit risk when the entity has elected to measure the liability at fair value in accordance with the fair value option for financial instruments, (6) requires separate presentation of financial assets and financial liabilities by measurement category and form of financial asset (that is, securities or loans and receivables) on the balance sheet or the accompanying notes to the financial statements and (8) clarifies that an entity should evaluate the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available-for-sale securities in combination with the entity’s other deferred tax assets. The guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new requirement on the consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2016-02 – Leases – In February 2016, the FASB released this Update to increase the transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. For lessees, all leases will be required to be recognized on the balance sheet by recording a right-of-use asset and a lease liability. The accounting applied by a lessor is largely unchanged from that applied under the existing guidance. The ASU requires additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures with the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including the interim periods. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new requirement on the consolidated financial statements, but the expectation is that this new requirement will result in a significant increase to assets for the right-of-use asset recognition and a significant increase to total liabilities for the lease liability.

 

ASU 2016-09 – Stock Compensation – In March 2016, the FASB released this Update to simplify the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification in the statement of cash flows. The update requires all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies related to share-based awards to be recognized as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement. In addition, the update includes changes to the classification of excess tax benefits on the statement of cash flows, an election related to the accounting for forfeitures, minimum statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as the classification of employee taxes paid on the statement of cash flows when an employer withholds shares for tax-withholding purposes. The guidance became effective on January 1, 2017 and did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2016-13 – Credit Losses – In June 2016, the FASB released this Update to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. To achieve this objective, the amendments in this Update replace the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. The amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new requirement on the consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2016-15 – Statement of Cash Flows – In August 2016, the FASB released this Update with the objective of eliminating the diversity in practice related to how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows.  This Update addresses eight specific cash flow issues: (1) debt prepayment or debt extinguishment costs, (2) settlement of zero-coupon debt instruments or other debt instruments with coupon interest rates that are insignificant in relation to the effective interest rate of the borrowing, (3) contingent consideration payments made after a business combination, (4) proceeds from the settlement of insurance claims, (5) proceeds from the settlement of corporate-owned life insurance policies, including bank-owned life insurance policies, (6) distributions received from equity method investees, (7) beneficial interests in securitization transactions and (8) separately identifiable cash flows and application of the predominance principle.  These amendments are effective for public business entities for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new requirement on the consolidated financial statements.