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New Accounting Standards
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
New Accounting Standards [Abstract]  
New Accounting Standards

3.NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

Accounting Standards Adopted

Lease Accounting.  In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance that requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for virtually all of their leases (other than leases that meet the definition of a short-term lease).  The liability will be equal to the present value of lease payments.  The asset will be based on the liability, subject to adjustment, such as for initial direct costs.  For income statement purposes, the FASB retained a dual model, requiring leases to be classified as either operating or finance.  Operating leases will result in straight-line expense (similar to current operating leases) while finance leases will result in a front-loaded expense pattern (similar to current capital leases).  Classification will be based on criteria that are largely similar to those applied in current lease accounting, but without explicit bright lines.  The new standard was effective for public companies for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted.  The FASB issued new guidance in July 2018, which amended the guidance to allow the issuer to elect from two adoption alternatives: 1) apply the new guidance at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented; or 2) apply the new guidance at the effective date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment, without adjusting the comparative periods presented.  

The Company adopted the new standard on January 1, 2019 and elected to apply the new guidance at the effective date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment, without adjusting the comparative periods presented.  The Company applied the package of practical expedients to leases that commenced before the effective date whereby the Company elected not to reassess the following: (1) whether any expired or existing contracts are or contain leases; (2) the lease classification for any expired or existing leases; and (3) whether initial direct costs exist for any existing leases.  The Company also applied the (1) practical expedient for land easements where the Company elected to not apply the leases standard to certain existing land easements at transition and (2) practical expedient to include both the lease and nonlease components as a single component and account for it as a lease.  The Company has completed its assessment of the provisions of the lease accounting guidance and implementation of its leasing software solution to manage and account for leases under the new standard. 

As reported
December 31, 2018

Adoption of lease guidance
increase (decrease)

Balance
January 1, 2019

Operating lease right-of-use assets

$

-

$

206,501

$

206,501

Total assets

$

12,627,329

$

206,501

$

12,833,830

Current portion of operating lease liabilities

$

-

$

29,640

$

29,640

Total current liabilities

$

860,709

$

29,640

$

890,349

Long-term portion of operating lease liabilities

$

-

$

180,005

$

180,005

Deferred income taxes

$

760,033

$

(1,066)

$

758,967

Total liabilities

$

6,167,141

$

208,579

$

6,375,720

Retained earnings

$

2,264,510

$

(2,078)

$

2,262,432

Total liabilities and equity

$

12,627,329

$

206,501

$

12,833,830

The adoption of the new standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated statements of net income or consolidated statements of cash flows.  See Note 9 for additional information and disclosures related to the adoption of this amended guidance.

Derivatives and Hedging: Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities.  In August 2017, the FASB issued guidance which improves the financial reporting of hedging relationships to better portray the economic results of an entity's risk management activities in its financial statements and make certain targeted improvements to simplify the application of the hedge accounting guidance in current GAAP. The amendments in this update are intended to better align an entity's risk management activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships and presentation of hedge results. The effective date for the standard is for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018.  The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Derivatives and Hedging: Inclusion of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) Overnight Index Swap (“OIS”) Rate as a Benchmark Interest Rate for Hedge Accounting.  As LIBOR is expected to no longer be published by 2021, the FASB issued guidance in October 2018 which added the OIS rate based on SOFR as an eligible benchmark interest rate in order to facilitate the LIBOR to SOFR transition and provide sufficient lead time for entities to prepare for changes to interest rate risk hedging strategies for both risk management and hedge accounting purposes.  The Company adopted the new guidance effective January 1, 2019 on a prospective basis.  The Company is developing a plan to transition its interest rate swaps from LIBOR to SOFR.  The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

SEC Simplified and Updated Disclosure Requirements.  In August 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) amended its rules to require an analysis of changes in stockholders’ equity in the financial

statements included in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.  The analysis, which can be presented as a note or separate statement, is required for the current and comparative quarter and year-to-date interim periods.  The amended rules became effective on November 15, 2018.  In addition, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (the “CDI”) that provides transition guidance related to this new disclosure.  For calendar year-end companies, the CDI allows a filer the option to first present the changes in stockholders’ equity in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2019.  The Company elected this option and has included the statement of shareholders’ equity within this Form 10-Q.

SEC modernizes and simplifies certain Regulation S-K disclosure requirements.  In March 2019, the SEC amended its rules to modernize and simplify certain disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K and the related rules and forms. These changes include, among other things, (1) allowing registrants to redact confidential information from most exhibits to their filings without filing a confidential treatment request; (2) revising the requirements for management’s discussion and analysis to allow flexibility, including allowing registrants providing three years of financial statements to omit discussion of the earliest year and cross-reference its discussion in a previous filing; (3) removing the example risk factors in Regulation S-K to encourage more meaningful company-specific disclosure; (4) clarifying the description of property requirements to emphasize that those disclosures should only include properties that are material to the registrant; and (5) requiring XBRL data tagging for items on the cover pages of certain filings, as well as the use of hyperlinks for information that is incorporated by reference and available on EDGAR.  The provisions regarding the redaction of confidential information in exhibits were effective upon publication in the Federal Register. The provisions requiring XBRL data tagging are subject to a three-year phase-in, depending on the filing status of the registrant, which, for the Company, were effective for the period ending June 30, 2019.  All other provisions were effective on May 2, 2019.

Accounting Standards Pending Adoption

Financial Instruments - Credit Losses: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.  In June 2016, the FASB issued guidance which introduces a new forward-looking approach, based on expected losses, to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments, including trade receivables, which will require entities to incorporate considerations of historical information, current information and reasonable and supportable forecasts.  The standard will be effective for public business entities that are SEC filers for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019 and interim periods within those years.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.