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Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards
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Sep. 30, 2018
Accounting Changes And Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

(2) Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software.  In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued a standard that provides guidance on accounting for implementation costs incurred in a cloud computing arrangement that is a service contract.  The amendments in this update align the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software, and hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license.  

This guidance also requires entities to present the expense related to the capitalized implementation costs in the same line item in the statement of income as the fees associated with the hosting element (service) of the arrangement and classify payments for capitalized implementation costs in the statement of cash flows in the same manner as payments made for fees associated with the hosting element. The entity is also required to present the capitalized implementation costs in the statement of financial position in the same line item that a prepayment for the fees of the associated hosting arrangement would be presented.  This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019.  We are currently evaluating the effect the standard will have on our financial statements.

Share-Based Compensation – Modifications. In May 2017, the FASB issued a standard which clarifies what constitutes a modification of a share-based payment award.  This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017.  We implemented this standard on January 1, 2018 and will apply the guidance to future modifications.

Business Combinations.  In January 2017, the FASB issued a standard which clarifies the definition of a business and provides a new framework for determining whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses.  This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017.  We implemented this standard on January 1, 2018 and will apply the guidance to future transactions.

Intangibles – Goodwill and Other.  In January 2017, the FASB issued a standard requiring an entity to no longer perform a hypothetical purchase price allocation to measure goodwill impairment.  Instead, impairment will be measured using the difference between the carrying amount and the fair value of the reporting unit.  This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019.  Entities may early adopt the guidance.  We have not determined an adoption date and do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

Leases.  In February 2016, the FASB issued a standard on lease accounting requiring a lessee to recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for leases with lease terms greater than 12 months. This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018.

We expect to adopt this standard effective January 1, 2019.  A modified retrospective transition approach is required.  Entities may choose between applying the new standard as of the date of initial application, or applying the standard to all leases existing as of the earliest comparative period and recasting its comparative period financial statements.  We expect to use the effective date as our date of initial application.  Consequently, financial information will not be updated and the disclosures required under the new standard will not be provided for dates and periods before January 1, 2019.  

While we are continuing to evaluate all potential impacts of the standard, we do not believe the accounting for our contractual rental revenue will be materially affected by the adoption of this standard.  The standard includes optional transition practical expedients intended to simplify its adoption.  We intend to elect to use certain of these expedients including, among other things, the ability to retain lease classification determined under legacy GAAP as well as a relief from reviewing expired or existing contracts to determine if they contain leases. We anticipate the lessee accounting for operating leases under the standard will have a material effect on our statement of financial position.

Upon adoption, we currently expect to recognize additional operating liabilities totaling between $75 million to $85 million, with corresponding right of use assets.  The liabilities will be calculated as the present value of the remaining minimum rental payments for existing operating leases.

Revenue from Contracts with Customers.  In May 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standard on revenue from contracts with customers.  The standard provides a single model for revenue arising from contracts with customers and supersedes previous revenue recognition guidance.  The standard requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of goods or services and is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017.  We adopted this guidance with a date of initial application of January 1, 2018.

The majority of our revenue, as it relates to contractual rental revenue, is excluded from the scope of this standard, and the accounting for the remaining revenue streams were not affected. We utilized the modified retrospective adoption and there was no impact on our consolidated financial statements, nor was there a cumulative effect of initially applying the standard.  For more information regarding our revenue from contracts with customers, see the disclosure in Note 4.