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Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 29, 2016
Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance affecting all entities that issue share-based payment awards to their employees. This update covers such areas as the recognition of excess tax benefits and deficiencies, the classification of those excess tax benefits on the statement of cash flows, an accounting policy election for forfeitures, the amount an employer can withhold to cover income taxes and still qualify for equity classification and the classification of those taxes paid on the statement of cash flows.  This update is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016, which will require us to adopt these provisions in the first quarter of fiscal 2017.  This guidance will be applied either prospectively, retrospectively or using a modified retrospective transition method, depending on the area covered in this update.  Early adoption is permitted.  We have not yet selected a transition date nor have we determined the effect of the standard on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued guidance that requires a lessee to recognize on the balance sheet a liability to make lease payments and a corresponding right-of-use asset.  The standard also requires certain qualitative and quantitative disclosures about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases.  This update is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, which will require us to adopt these provisions in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 using a modified retrospective approach.  Early adoption is permitted.  We have not yet selected a transition date nor have we determined the effect of the standard on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In July 2015, the FASB issued guidance that requires inventory within the scope of the standard to be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value.  Previous guidance required inventory to be measured at the lower of cost or market (where market was defined as replacement cost, with a ceiling of net realizable value and floor of net realizable value less a normal profit margin).  The updated guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted.  We expect the adoption of this guidance to have no material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In April 2015, the FASB issued guidance regarding a customer’s accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement.  If a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, the customer should account for the software license element of the arrangement consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses.  If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license, the customer should account for the arrangement as a service contract.  This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted.  Our adoption of this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 had no impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In April 2015, the FASB issued updated guidance intended to simplify, and provide consistency to, the presentation of debt issuance costs.  The new standard requires that debt issuance costs be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the debt liability, consistent with debt discounts.  In August 2015, the FASB provided additional guidance for presentation of debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements.  The updated guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted.  Our adoption of this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 had no impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In February 2015, the FASB issued updated guidance that changes the analysis that a reporting entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities.  The updated guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted.  Our adoption of this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 had no impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In June 2014, the FASB issued updated guidance intended to eliminate the diversity in practice regarding share-based payment awards that include terms which provide for a performance target that affects vesting being achieved after the requisite service period. The new standard requires that a performance target which affects vesting and could be achieved after the requisite service period be treated as a performance condition that affects vesting and should not be reflected in estimating the grant-date fair value.  The updated guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted.  Our adoption of this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 had no impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In May 2014, the FASB issued accounting guidance that provides a comprehensive new revenue recognition model that will supersede most of the existing revenue recognition requirements and require entities to recognize revenue at an amount that reflects the consideration to which a company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods or services to a customer.  In August 2015, the FASB deferred the effective date of this standard by one year with early adoption permitted no earlier than the original effective date.  The guidance is now effective for us beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2018.  In March and April 2016, the FASB provided additional guidance related to implementation.  This standard is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.