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New Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
New Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]  
New Accounting Pronouncements
Note 3. New Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2016-09, “Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting.” This ASU simplifies several aspects of the accounting for employee share-based payment transactions, including the accounting for income taxes, forfeitures, and statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as classification in the statement of cash flows. This new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within that reporting period.  We adopted this standard as of January 1, 2017. The adoption did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.  Under the new ASU we will no longer account for forfeitures throughout the vesting period and will instead account for them in the period in which they occur.  We will also recognize certain tax benefits or tax shortfalls upon a restricted-stock award vesting or stock option exercise relative to the deferred tax asset position established in the provision for income taxes line of the consolidated statement of operations instead of to consolidated stockholders’ equity.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-08, “Receivables—Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs: Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities” related to the amortization period for certain purchased callable debt securities held at a premium. The amendments shortens the amortization period for the premium to the earliest call date. The amendment is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company does not expect these amendments to have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In January 2017, the FASB, issued ASU No. 2017-04, “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” which simplifies the accounting for goodwill impairment by eliminating Step 2 of the current goodwill impairment test.  Goodwill impairment will now be the amount by which the reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, limited to the carrying value of the goodwill. The standard is effective for us beginning January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted for any impairment tests performed after January 1, 2017. The new guidance is not expected to have a material impact on our results of operations and financial position.
 
In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments.”  This ASU is in response to diversity in practice in how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows and provides guidance on eight specific cash flow classification issues.  It will be effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within that reporting period.  Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period.  We do not believe the adoption of this update will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
 
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-2, “Leases”, under which lessees will recognize most leases on-balance sheet. This will generally increase reported assets and liabilities. For public entities, this ASU is effective for annual and interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. ASU 2016-2 mandates a modified retrospective transition method for all entities. While the Company is still evaluating the timing and impact of the adoption of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements, it anticipates that the adoption could result in an increase in the assets and liabilities recorded on its consolidated balance sheet.
 
In September 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-16, “Business Combinations (Topic 805).”  The amendments in this update require that an acquirer recognize adjustments to provisional amounts that are identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined.  Under the new guidance, the acquirer should record, in the same period’s financial statements, the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of the change to the provisional amounts, calculated as if the accounting had been completed at the acquisition date.  On the face of the income statement or in the notes, the portion of the amount recorded in current-period earnings by line item that would have been recorded in previous reporting periods needs to be reflected as if the adjustment to the provisional amounts had been recognized as of the acquisition date.  The amendments in ASU No. 2016-16 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal years.  We do not believe the adoption of this update will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
 
In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)”, as amended by ASU 2015-14, “Deferral of Effective Date, which requires an entity 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. ASU 2014-09 sets forth a new revenue recognition model that requires identifying the contract, identifying the performance obligations, determining the transaction price, allocating the transaction price to performance obligations and recognizing the revenue upon satisfaction of performance obligations. For public entities, this ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017 including interim reporting periods within that reporting period. The provisions can be adopted either retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented or as a cumulative-effect adjustment as of the date of adoption. The Company has completed the initial assessment and is currently in the process of determining the impact that this ASU will have on the consolidated financial statements, its method of adoption and disclosures.  We plan to adopt this ASU effective January 1, 2018.