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Recently Issued Accounting Standards
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Recently Issued Accounting Standard  
Recently Issued Accounting Standards

Note 2.  Recently Issued Accounting Standards

 

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). The objective of the update is to 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 update provides a five-step analysis of transactions to determine when and how revenue is recognized, along with expanded disclosure requirements.  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.  In adoption of this accounting standard update using the modified retrospective method, the Company had no cumulative effect to record on the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income (Loss).   See Note 3 for further explanation related to this adoption, including all newly expanded disclosure requirements.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842).  This new guidance will require that a lessee recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for all leases with a lease term of more than twelve months, with the result being the recognition of a right of use asset and a lease liability.  The new lease accounting requirements are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the new guidance on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-07, Compensation – Retirement Benefits (Topic 715).  This new guidance requires entities to (1) disaggregate the service cost component from the other components of net benefit cost and present it with other current compensation costs for related employees in the income statement and (2) present the other components elsewhere in the income statement and outside of income from operations if that subtotal is presented.  In addition, the ASU requires entities to disclose the income statement lines that contain the other components if they are not presented on appropriately described separate lines.  The amendments in this ASU also only allow the service cost component to be eligible for capitalization.  This new guidance was effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those annual periods, with early adoption permitted.  The Company adopted the standard on October 1, 2018.  The amendments are applied retrospectively for the presentation of the service cost component and the other components of net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit cost in the income statement and prospectively, for the capitalization of the service cost component of net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit in assets.  As a result of the retrospective change in presentation, the Company reclassified $2.1 million from cost of sales to Nonoperating retirement benefit expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 and $4.2 million for the six months ended March 31, 2018.  The Company used the practical expedient allowed in the standard upon transition that permitted entities to use their previously disclosed service cost and other costs from the prior years’ pension and other postretirement benefit plan footnotes in the comparative periods as appropriate estimates when retrospectively changing the presentation of these costs in the income statement.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820).  This new guidance removes and modifies disclosure requirements on fair value statements.  This update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019.  The Company is currently evaluating the impact, if any, on its disclosures in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-14, Compensation-Retirement Benefits-Defined Benefit Plans-General (Subtopic 715-20).  This new guidance removes and modifies disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans.  Some disclosure requirements that are removed include, among others, amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income expected to be recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost over the next fiscal year and the effects of a one-percentage-point change in assumed health care cost trend rates on the (a) aggregate of the service and interest cost components of net periodic benefit costs and (b) benefit obligation for postretirement health care benefits.  This update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020.  Early adoption is permitted.