2.	ACCOUNTING CHANGES

Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements

Income Taxes

In November 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued an accounting standards update for the accounting for deferred income taxes. The update provides that deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent amounts in a classified statement of financial position. This guidance is effective prospectively or retrospectively for annual reporting periods, and interim reporting periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. We adopted this guidance effective December 31, 2015 in order to simplify the presentation of deferred income taxes. This guidance impacts the balance sheet presentation of our deferred tax liabilities and assets. Prior periods were not retrospectively adjusted.

Discontinued Operations

In April 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standards update for the requirements of reporting discontinued operations. The update provides that an entity, a group of components of an entity, or a business is required to be reported in discontinued operations once it meets the held for sale criteria, is disposed of by sale, or is disposed of other than by sale only if the disposal represents a strategic shift that has, or will have, a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results. The update also requires that additional disclosures about discontinued operations be made. This guidance is effective prospectively for annual reporting periods, and interim reporting periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2014. We adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2015 with no impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations.

New Accounting Pronouncements Pending Adoption

Business Combinations

In September 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standards update for the accounting of measurement-period adjustments in business combinations. The update provides that an acquirer recognize adjustments to provisional amounts that are identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined as if the accounting had been completed at the acquisition date. This includes the acquirer presenting separately on the face of the income statement or disclosing in the notes thereto the portion of the amount recorded in current-period earnings by line item that would have been recorded in previous reporting periods if the adjustment to the provisional amounts had been recognized as of the acquisition date. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods, and interim periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. We expect that this guidance will have no impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

Debt Issuance Costs

In April 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standards update for the presentation of debt issuance costs. The update provides that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the debt liability. This guidance is effective on a retrospective basis for annual reporting periods, and interim periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. This guidance will impact the balance sheet presentation of our debt issuance costs and related debt liabilities upon adoption.

Consolidation

In February 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standards update for the requirements of consolidation. The update provides changes to the analysis that an entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities because in certain situations deconsolidated financial statements are necessary to better analyze the reporting entity’s economic and operational results. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods, and interim periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted provided that the guidance is applied from the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. We are currently assessing the potential impact this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements as a result of adopting this standard.

Extraordinary and Unusual Items

In January 2015, the FASB issued an accounting standards update that eliminates the GAAP concept of extraordinary items. The update provides for the elimination of the requirements to consider whether an underlying event or transaction is extraordinary, but retains the presentation and disclosure guidance for items that are unusual in nature or occur infrequently and expands upon it to include items that are both unusual in nature and infrequently occurring. This guidance is effective prospectively or retrospectively for annual reporting periods, and interim periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted provided that the guidance is applied from the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. We expect that this guidance will have no impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

Revenue Recognition

In May 2014, the FASB issued an accounting standards update for the recognition of revenue, which supersedes existing revenue recognition requirements and most industry-specific guidance. The update provides that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods, and interim reporting periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2017 under either full or modified retrospective adoption. Early application is permitted only as of annual reporting periods, and interim reporting periods within those reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2016. We are currently assessing the potential impact this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements as a result of adopting this standard.