Note 2 - Recently Issued or Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

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Sep. 30, 2021

Notes to Financial Statements

Accounting Standards Update and Change in Accounting Principle [Text Block]

(2) RECENTLY ISSUED OR ADOPTED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In July 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2021-05, Lessors – Certain Leases with Variable Lease Payments, which amends Topic 842, Accounting for Leases, to require a lessor to classify a lease with entirely or partially variable payments that do not depend on an index or rate as an operating lease if another classification (i.e. sales-type or direct financing) would trigger a Day 1 loss. The guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2021, with early adoption permitted. Although we are presently evaluating the effect of the standard, we do not expect its adoption to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In May 2021, the FASB issued ASU-2021-04, Issuer’s Accounting for Certain Modifications or Exchanges of Freestanding Equity-Classified Written Call Options, which clarify and reduce diversity in an issuer’s accounting for modifications or exchanges of freestanding equity-classified written call options that remain equity classified after modification or exchange. The guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2021, with early adoption permitted. Although we are presently evaluating the effect of the standard, we do not expect its adoption to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which simplifies the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and clarifying and amending existing guidance. The guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2020 with early adoption permitted.  We adopted this standard on January 1, 2021 and it did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In August 2018 the FASB issued ASU 2018-14, Compensation – Retirement Benefits – Defined Benefit Plans – General, which modifies the disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit plans or other postretirement plans. This ASU removes certain disclosures that are no longer considered cost beneficial, clarifies the specific requirements of certain other disclosures, and adds disclosure requirements identified as relevant. The guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2020 with early adoption permitted. We adopted this standard on January 1, 2021 and it did not have a material impact on our related disclosures.