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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS NOT YET ADOPTED RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
Retirement Benefits
In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASU No. 2018-14 “Compensation-Retirement Benefits-Defined Benefit Plans - General (Topic 715-20): Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans” (ASU 2018-14), which modifies the disclosure requirements for defined benefit pension plans and other post retirement plans. ASU 2018-14 is effective for us in the first quarter of our fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU 2018-14 on our consolidated financial statements.
Leases
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02 “Leases (Topic 842)” and issued subsequent amendments to the initial guidance under ASU 2017-13, ASU 2018-10, ASU 2018-11 and ASU 2018-20 (collectively, Topic 842). Topic 842 supersedes the guidance in former ASC Topic 840 “Leases”. Topic 842 requires companies to generally recognize on the balance sheet operating and financing lease liabilities and corresponding right-of-use assets. For OpenText, the most significant change will result in the recognition of lease assets for the right to use the underlying asset and lease liabilities for the obligation to make lease payments by lessees, for those leases classified as operating leases under current guidance. The new guidance will also require significant additional disclosures about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows related to leases. Topic 842 is effective for us in the first quarter of our fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, with early adoption permitted. Topic 842 is required to be adopted using a modified retrospective method with an option to adopt using a transition method that allows entities to initially apply the new lease standard at the adoption date and if there is a need, recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. We expect to adopt Topic 842 using this optional transition method. Upon adoption, we also expect to elect the transition package of permitted practical expedients, which among other things, allows the carryforward of the historical lease classification. Furthermore, upon adoption, we expect to make an accounting policy election that will keep leases with an initial term of 12 months or less off our Consolidated Balance Sheets and we will recognize these short-term lease payments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
While we are still currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of Topic 842 on our consolidated financial statements, we expect the majority of the impact of adopting Topic 842 to come from our facility leases, and that most of our
operating lease commitments will be recognized as right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities, which will increase our total assets and total liabilities, as reported on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, relative to such amounts prior to adoption.