SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Our accompanying unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. These statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and reflect all adjustments that, in our opinion, are necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. The 2018 year-end Consolidated Balance Sheet data was derived from our audited Consolidated Financial Statements but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP. Certain reclassifications have been made in the prior-year Consolidated Financial Statements to conform to the current year presentation. These unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with our audited Consolidated Financial Statements in our Annual Report.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards Update - Changes to GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of ASUs to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. We consider the applicability and impact of all ASUs. ASUs not listed below were assessed and determined to be either not applicable or clarifications of ASUs listed below. Except as discussed below or in our Annual Report, there have been no new accounting pronouncements that have become effective or have been issued that are of significance or potential significance to us. The following table provides a brief description of recently adopted accounting pronouncements and our analysis of the effects on our financial statements:



Standard	Description	Date of Adoption	Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842)”	The standard requires the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. It also requires qualitative disclosures along with specific quantitative disclosures by lessees and lessors to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases.	First quarter 2019	We adopted this standard on January 1, 2019, using the modified retrospective method and the optional transition method to record the adoption impact through a cumulative adjustment to equity. We recorded an immaterial cumulative effect for the adoption of the new standard and recorded $17.5 million of right-of-use assets and $17.4 million of lease liabilities related to operating leases that were not previously recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Our finance lease assets and liabilities of $28.1 million and $28.0 million, respectively, did not change as a result of adopting this standard. See Note K for additional disclosures.
ASU 2018-07, “Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting”	The standard aligns the measurement and classification guidance for share-based payments to nonemployees with the guidance for share-based payments to employees, with certain exceptions.	First quarter 2019	The impact of adopting this standard was not material.