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Mar. 31, 2017
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
New Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted | New Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted In March 2017 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2017-07, Compensation - Retirement Benefits, which revises the presentation of net periodic pension cost and net periodic post-retirement benefit cost. We plan to adopt this update on January 1, 2018 and do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements. In January 2017 the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations: Clarifying the Definition of a Business, which provides a more robust framework to use in determining when a set of acquired assets and activities constitutes a business. In February 2016 the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases. This update requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for leases with terms greater than 12 months. We plan to adopt this update on January 1, 2019, and we are still evaluating the impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements. In May 2014 the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. This update outlines a single, comprehensive model for accounting for revenue from contracts with customers. The guidance permits two methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (full retrospective method) or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application (modified retrospective method). We plan to adopt this update on January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective method. There may be differences in timing of revenue recognition under the revised standard compared to recognition under ASC 605 - Revenue Recognition.
Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted [Policy Text Block] | Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted On January 1, 2017 we adopted ASU 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting (ASU 2016-09). The impact on our Consolidated Statements of Earnings in 2017 was a tax benefit of $26. In our prior year Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow we reclassified $18 from other financing to income taxes within operating activities to conform to current year presentation. On January 1, 2017 we adopted ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows: Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. The adoption of this update did not have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements. No other new accounting pronouncements were issued or became effective in the period that had, or are expected to have, a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

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