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Significant Accounting Policies | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2014
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Significant Accounting Policies | Note 1 — Significant Accounting Policies General Information Foregoing data has been prepared from the unaudited financial records of Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (the Company) and in the opinion of management all adjustments, which are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim period have been reflected. Certain amounts previously reported have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and the related notes included in the Company’s 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Results of operations for the period ended March 29, 2014 are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the year to end December 31, 2014 because of the seasonal nature of the Company’s operations. Historically, the third quarter has been the Company’s largest sales quarter due to Halloween sales. The results of the Company’s two 50% owned Spanish companies are consolidated and a noncontrolling interest has been recorded. (See Note 10.) Accounting Pronouncements In July 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2013-11, which requires presentation of an unrecognized tax benefit when a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax loss, or a tax credit carryforward exists. ASU 2013-11 provides explicit guidance on presentation in financial statements. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements. In March 2013, the FASB issued ASU 2013-05, which permits an entity to release cumulative translation adjustments into net income when a reporting entity (parent) ceases to have a controlling financial interest in a subsidiary or group of assets that is a business within a foreign entity. Accordingly, the cumulative translation adjustment should be released into net income only if the sale or transfer results in the complete or substantially complete liquidation of the foreign entity in which the subsidiary or group of assets had resided, or, if a controlling financial interest is no longer held. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements. In April 2014, the FASB issued updated guidance on the reporting and disclosures of discontinued operations. The new guidance requires that the disposal of a component of an entity be reported as discontinued operations only if the action represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results, and would require expanded disclosures. This guidance will be effective beginning in the first quarter 2015. We do not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a significant impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements.

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