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BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND CONSOLIDATION
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND CONSOLIDATION [Abstract]  
BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND CONSOLIDATION

NOTE 2 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND CONSOLIDATION

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial statements and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Accordingly, they do not contain all information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for annual financial statements. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. In the opinion of the Company's management, the accompanying unaudited

 

condensed consolidated financial statements contain all the adjustments necessary (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) to present the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2015 and the results of operations

and cash flows for the periods presented. The results of operations for the periods ended September 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full fiscal year or any future period. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. The Company's accounting policies are described in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, and updated, as necessary, in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

  

Principles of consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements comprise the results and position of the Company and its subsidiaries. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its operating activities. In assessing control, legal and contractual rights are taken into account. The consolidated financial statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date that control is achieved until the date that control is ceased. Intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standard Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) No. 2015-03, "Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs", requiring debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability to be presented on the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability in a manner consistent with the treatment for debt discounts. The standard is effective for fiscal years and the interim periods within those fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2015.

 

In August 2015, the FASB published ASU 2015-15 (Subtopic 835-30), "Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of Credit Arrangements", which provides additional guidance on the presentation and subsequent measurement of debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements. The effective date is immediate.

 

The Company does not expect material impacts on its consolidated financial statements upon adoption of these ASUs.

In September 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-16 (“ASU 2015-16”), “Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments”,  which eliminates the requirement for an acquirer in a business combination to account for measurement-period adjustments retrospectively.  The ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and should be applied prospectively.  Early adoption is permitted for financial statements that have not been previously issued.  The Company does not expect that the adoption of this ASU will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.