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New Accounting Pronouncements
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
New Accounting Pronouncements  
New Accounting Pronouncements

 

3.  New Accounting Pronouncements

 

In April and March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contract with Customers (Topic 606).  The amendments of ASU 2016-10 clarify the following two aspects of Topic 606: (a) identifying performance obligations; and (b) the licensing implementation guidance.  The amendments of ASU 2016-08 relate to when another party, along with the entity, is involved in providing a good or service to a customer.  The amendments are intended to improve the operability and understandability of the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations.  The effective date and transition requirements for the amendments are the same as the effective date and transition requirements in Topic 606.  Public entities should apply the amendments for annual reporting periods beginning after December 31, 2017, including interim reporting periods therein (i.e., January 1, 2018, for a calendar year entity).  Management is currently assessing the impact of the new revenue recognition guidance will have on the consolidated financial statements.

 

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718).  The amendments are intended to improve the accounting for employee share-based payments and affect all organizations that issue share-based payment awards to their employees.  Several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment award transactions are simplified, including: (a) income tax consequences; (b) classification of awards as either equity or liabilities; and (c) classification on the statement of cash flows.  For public companies, the amendments are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within those annual periods.  Early adoption is permitted for any organization in any interim or annual period.  Management plans to implement this change in accounting principle in 2017 and does not anticipate a material impact from this new guidance.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”). This ASU primarily provides new guidance for lessees on the accounting treatment of operating leases. Under the new guidance, lessees are required to recognize assets and liabilities arising from operating leases on the balance sheet. ASU 2016-02 also aligns lessor accounting with the revenue recognition guidance in Topic 606 of the Accounting Standards Codification. ASU 2016-02 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and is required to be adopted on a modified retrospective basis, meaning the new leasing model will be applied to the earliest year presented in the financial statements and thereafter. The Company is evaluating the impact of adopting this new accounting standard on its financial statements.

 

In February 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-02 with new consolidation guidance which modifies the analysis that a reporting entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities. The main provisions of the new guidance include modifying the evaluation of whether limited partnerships and similar legal entities are VIEs or voting interest entities, the evaluation of fees paid to a decision maker or a service provider as a variable interest, and the effect of fee arrangements and related parties on the primary beneficiary determination, as well as provides a scope exception for certain investment funds. The new guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. A reporting entity may apply the new guidance using a modified retrospective approach by recording a cumulative-effect adjustment to equity as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. A reporting entity also may apply the new guidance retrospectively. The adoption of this pronouncement had no impact to the Company’s financial statements.