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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently adopted accounting pronouncements

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued updated guidance for accounting for employee share based payments. The areas for simplification in this Update involve several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. The Company has adopted this guidance with the following effects on its Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements:

- All excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies should be recognized as income tax expense. This guidance was adopted on a modified retrospective basis with a $4.2 million cumulative impact on retained earnings and will be applied prospectively to all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies resulting from settlements after the date of adoption. Additionally, for purposes of the diluted share count calculation for the Company's earnings per share, which is performed under the treasury stock method, the Company is no longer including excess tax benefits.
- Excess tax benefits should be classified along with other income tax cash flows as an operating activity. This guidance was adopted with no impact on the Consolidated Condensed Statement of Cash Flow and will be applied prospectively to all excess tax benefits resulting from settlements after the date of adoption.
- An entity can make an entity-wide accounting policy election to either estimate the number of awards that are expected to vest (current GAAP) or account for forfeitures when they occur. The Company has elected to account for forfeitures when they occur.
- The threshold to qualify for equity classification permits withholding up to the maximum statutory tax rates in the applicable jurisdictions. The Company has adopted this guidance with no impact on its Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements given that withholdings are calculated using actual statutory withholding tables.
- Cash paid by an employer when directly withholding shares for tax withholding purposes should be classified as a financing activity. The Company adopted this guidance with no impact on its Consolidated Condensed Statement of Cash Flows as the Company currently classifies statutory withholding taxes paid on share-based compensation as a financing activity.
Recently issued accounting pronouncements

The FASB has issued the following accounting pronouncements and guidance relevant to the Company’s operations:

In February 2017, the FASB issued updated guidance clarifying the scope of asset derecognition guidance for accounting for partial sales of nonfinancial assets. The amendments in this Update clarify the scope of the FASB’s recently established guidance on nonfinancial asset derecognition (ASC 610-20) as well as the accounting for partial sales of nonfinancial assets. This Update conforms the derecognition guidance on nonfinancial assets with the model for transactions in the new revenue standard. The amendments in this Update are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim reporting periods within that reporting period. Public entities may apply the guidance earlier but only as of annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim reporting periods within that reporting period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements, if any.

Accounting pronouncements issued prior to 2017 and not yet adopted

During 2014, the FASB issued new guidance for revenue from contracts with customers, which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers and also includes changes in the accounting for customer contract acquisition costs and fulfillment costs. During 2016, the FASB issued several additional updates that amended the proposed guidance. These new standards will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP, and are effective for public reporting companies for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The standards permit two methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (retrospective method), or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application (the cumulative catch-up transition method). The effective date for the Company is January 1, 2018. Management has not yet determined what transition method will be used.

Management is currently in the process of evaluating the potential impact this new guidance will have on the Company’s financial statements. Management has not completed this evaluation and therefore, cannot conclude whether the guidance will have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements at this time. However, based on preliminary work completed at this time, Management is considering the implications that the new standard may have in the following areas:
 
- Under the new standards, certain implementation costs and other fulfillment costs, such as direct labor for contract set-up activities, that are expensed as incurred under current policies, will be capitalized and amortized over the contract term and anticipated renewal periods.
- The period of amortization of contract acquisition costs (e.g., sales commissions) may change. Under current policies, sales commissions are expensed over the initial term of a contract. Under the new standards, these are required to be amortized over the initial contract term plus any anticipated renewal periods if there is no commensurate commission paid for the renewal periods.
- Under current policies, upfront activities (such as setup activities) are not generally analyzed to determine whether they have standalone value because the contingent revenue cap under the existing revenue guidance would prohibit allocation of hosting revenue to that upfront activity. Under the new standards, the contingent revenue cap no longer exists, so certain upfront activities included in the implementation process will need to be evaluated to determine whether they qualify as separate units of accounting. If they are separate units of accounting, then revenue would be allocated to the upfront activity, recognized as those activities are performed, rather than over the hosting period.
- Where the Company charges upfront fees for implementation or set-up activities, including fees charged in pre-production periods, the period over which these fees will be recognized may in some cases be shorter than our current practice.
- For certain software license arrangements, the Company currently uses a ratable, or over time, revenue recognition method for software licensing arrangements where vendor specific objective evidence (VSOE) of the maintenance portion of the arrangement does not exist. Under the new standards, Management expects the timing of revenue recognition to be accelerated because Management anticipates that the license revenue portion will be recognized at a point in time upon software license delivery.
- Required enhancements to current disclosures around revenue recognition.

At this time, Management is not able to reasonably estimate the impact that adoption is expected to have. The Company’s implementation process is ongoing. Significant activities that are in process are the calculation of the transition adjustment, drafting and approval of new accounting policies, and design and implementation of new processes and systems to accommodate the new policies and to compile the information for the enhanced disclosures under the new standards.

During 2016, the FASB issued updated guidance for financial reporting about leasing transactions. The amendments in this Update require a lessee to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms of more than 12 months. The recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification as a finance or operating lease. In addition, the Update requires that both financing and operating leases be recognized on the balance sheet. The guidance also requires disclosures to help investors and other financial statement users better understand the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. These disclosures include qualitative and quantitative requirements, providing additional information about the amounts recorded in the financial statements. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in the period required by the Update and continues to evaluate the impact that this Update will have on its consolidated financial statements.

During 2016, the FASB issued updated guidance for the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments. The amendments in this Update require a financial asset (or a group of financial assets) measured at amortized cost basis to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected. The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account that is deducted from the amortized cost basis of the financial asset or assets to present the net carrying value at the amount expected to be collected on the financial asset. The measurement of expected credit losses is based on relevant information about past events, including historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectibility of the reported amount. An entity must use judgment in determining the relevant information and estimation methods that are appropriate in its circumstances. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in the fiscal period required by this Update and continues to evaluate if the adoption will have an impact on the consolidated financial statements.