Financial Instruments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Investments, All Other Investments [Abstract]

Financial Instruments Disclosure [Text Block]

15.

Financial Instruments

The carrying amounts of financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable approximated their fair value as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, because of the relative short maturity of these instruments.

“Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” defines fair value as the price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.

The accounting standard establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value into three levels. The three levels are defined as follows:

Level 1: Unadjusted quoted price in active market for identical assets and liabilities.

Level 2: Observable inputs other than those included in Level 1.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs reflecting management’s own assumptions about the inputs used in pricing the asset or liability.

The following table sets forth the assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 that the Company measured at fair value, on a recurring basis by level, within the fair value hierarchy (in thousands). As required by the standard, assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to their fair value measurement.

December 31, 2017	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3

Assets
Derivatives	$	-	$	342	$	-

December 31, 2016	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3

Liabilities
Derivatives	$	-	$	318	$	-

The Level 2 liabilities contain foreign currency forward contracts. Fair value is determined based on the observable market transactions of spot and forward rates. The fair value of these contracts as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 are included in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.