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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements:  
New Accounting Pronouncements, Policy

       NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued guidance for accounting for leases. The guidance requires lessees to recognize assets and liabilities related to long-term leases on the balance sheet and expands disclosure requirements regarding leasing arrangements. The guidance is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and early adoption is permitted. The guidance must be adopted on a modified retrospective basis and provides for certain practical expedients. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in the first quarter of 2019 and we currently expect that the adoption of this guidance will likely change the way we account for our operating leases and will likely result in recording the future benefits of those leases as an asset and the related minimum lease payments as a liability on our consolidated balance sheets. The Company has not yet begun to quantify the specific impacts of this guidance.

 

In January 2018, the FASB released guidance on the accounting for tax on the global intangible low-taxed income ("GILTI") provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act"). The GILTI provisions impose a tax on foreign income in excess of a deemed return on tangible assets of foreign corporations. The guidance indicates that either accounting for deferred taxes related to GILTI inclusions or to treat any taxes on GILTI inclusions as period cost are both acceptable methods subject to an accounting policy election. Effective the first quarter of 2018, the Company will have elected to treat any potential GILTI inclusions as a period cost as we are not projecting any material impact from GILTI inclusions and any deferred taxes related to any inclusion would be immaterial.

 

Comparability of Prior Year Financial Data, Policy

Comparability

Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted a new accounting standard. Prior periods were not retrospectively restated, so the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2017 and results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2017 were prepared using an accounting standard that was different than the one in effect for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Therefore, the consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2018 and December 30, 2017 are not directly comparable, nor are the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2017.