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Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]  
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
NOTE C - Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

Changes to U.S. GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of accounting standards updates (ASU's) to the FASB's Accounting Standards Codification. The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASU's. Newly effective ASU's not noted herein were assessed and determined to be either not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations.

Share-based payments.  In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09 regarding ASC Topic 718, "Compensation - Stock Compensation." This amendment changes how companies account for certain aspects of share-based payments to employees.  Entities will be required to record all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement when the awards vest or are settled.  The amendment will allow for the repurchase of a greater number of an employee's shares for tax withholding purposes without triggering liability accounting and for entities to make a policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur. The guidance is effective for the Company for interim and annual periods beginning January 1, 2017 and early adoption is permitted.  We plan to adopt ASU 2016-09 January 1, 2017 and apply the guidance on a prospective basis.  The impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations will be primarily driven by the amount of any tax benefits or deficiencies which in prior years would have been recorded to additional paid-in capital and under this ASU will be charged to the income statement.

Leases. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 regarding ASC Topic 842, "Leases," which amends various aspects of existing guidance for leases. ASU 2016-02 requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities arising from a lease for both financing and operating leases, along with additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures. The main difference between previous GAAP and the amended standard is the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees on the balance sheet for those leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. As a result, the Company will have to recognize a liability representing its lease payments and a right-of-use asset representing its right to use the underlying asset for the lease term on the balance sheet. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the effect this standard will have on our consolidated financial position or results of operations.

Deferred Taxes.  In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17 regarding ASC Topic 740, "Income Taxes: Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes."  This amendment changes how deferred taxes are recognized by eliminating the requirement of presenting deferred tax liabilities and assets as current and noncurrent on the balance sheet. Instead, the requirement is to classify all deferred tax liabilities and assets as noncurrent.  We adopted ASU 2015-17 for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 and have applied the new guidance prospectively and accordingly the prior balance sheets were not retrospectively adjusted.

Revenue Recognition. As discussed in Note 1 of the Company's notes to the consolidated financial statements in its 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers" (ASU 2014-09) in May 2014. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-14, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Deferral of the Effective Date," that deferred the effective date by one year to December 15, 2017 for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after that date. The FASB permitted early adoption of the standard, but not before the original effective date of December 15, 2016. We are currently evaluating this ASU to determine our adoption method and the impact it will have on our consolidated financial position, results of operations and related disclosures