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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
6 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2015
Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Note 11. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued an accounting standard update requiring an entity to release into net income the entire amount of a cumulative translation adjustment related to its investment in a foreign entity when as a parent it either sells a part or all of its investment in the foreign entity or no longer holds a controlling financial interest in a subsidiary or group of assets within the foreign entity. The Company has adopted this accounting standard update which had no impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In July 2013, the FASB issued an accounting standard update that provides explicit guidance on the financial statement presentation of an unrecognized tax benefit when a net operating loss carryforward or a tax credit carryforward exists. Under the new standard update, an unrecognized tax benefit, or a portion of an unrecognized tax benefit, is to be presented in the financial statements as a reduction to a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss carryforward or a tax credit carryforward. The Company has adopted this accounting standard update which had no impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In April 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standard update increasing the threshold for a disposal to qualify as a discontinued operation and require new disclosures of both discontinued operations and certain other disposals that do not meet the definition of a discontinued operation.  The Company has adopted this accounting standard update, which had no impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standard update that provides explicit guidance on the recognition of revenue based upon the entity’s contracts with customers to transfer goods or services.  Under the new standard update, an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised 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.  This accounting standard update will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2018.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this accounting standard update on its consolidated financial statements.

In June 2014, the FASB issued guidance clarifying that share-based compensation performance targets that could be achieved after the requisite service period should be treated as a performance condition that affects vesting, rather than a condition that affects the grant-date fair value of the award.  This guidance is effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2017, with early adoption permitted.  The adoption of the pronouncement may affect the Company’s presentation of future performance-based stock compensation awards.

In August 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standard update that provides explicit guidance on whether there is substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.  Before the issuance of this update, there was no guidance in U.S. GAAP about management’s responsibility to evaluate whether there is substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern or to provide related footnote disclosures. This guidance is expected to reduce the diversity in the timing and content of footnote disclosures. The guidance requires management to assess an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern by incorporating and expanding upon certain principles that are currently in U.S. auditing standards as specified in the guidance. The guidance becomes effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016 and for annual and interim periods thereafter. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effects of adopting this guidance on its consolidated financial statements, but the adoption is not expected to have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
     In November 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standard update providing guidance for determining whether and at what threshold an acquired entity can reflect the acquirer’s accounting and reporting basis (pushdown accounting) in its separate financial statements.  The amendments in this update provide an acquired entity with an option to apply pushdown accounting in its separate financial statements upon occurrence of an event in which an acquirer obtains control of the acquired entity.  The Company has adopted this accounting standard update, which had no impact on its consolidated financial statements.

    In January 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standard update eliminating the concept of extraordinary items.  The accounting standard update will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2016.  The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a significant impact upon the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

     The Company has reviewed all other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and does not believe any such pronouncements will have a material impact on its financial statements.