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Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Significant Accounting Policies

2. Significant Accounting Policies

The Company reported Significant Accounting Policies in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016. The following are new or revised disclosures or disclosures required on a quarterly basis.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance which simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions. The new guidance requires excess income tax benefits (windfalls) and deficiencies (shortfalls) to be recognized in the income statement as income tax benefits or charges when the awards vest or are settled. The former guidance required the recognition of excess tax benefits or deficiencies in stockholders’ equity. In addition, all income tax-related cash flows resulting from share-based payments will be reported as operating activities in the statement of cash flows under the new guidance. The guidance also allows us to repurchase more of an employee's shares for tax withholding purposes without triggering liability accounting; clarifies that all cash payments for tax withholdings made on an employee’s behalf should be presented as a financing activity on the Company’s statement of cash flows; and provides an accounting policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur. The guidance is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2017.

The adoption of the new standard resulted in the recognition of excess tax benefit of $0.8 million reflected in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income as an income tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2017. Additionally, excess tax benefits on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows are presented as an operating activity on a prospective basis. The presentation requirement for cash flows related to employee taxes paid for withheld shares did not impact any of the periods presented in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows since these cash flows have historically been presented as a financing activity. The Company will continue to account for forfeitures as they occur. The standard also modifies the calculation of dilutive earnings per share to no longer use proceeds from tax benefits or deficiencies.