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Note 11 - Recently Issued Accounting Updates
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]
11.
Recently Issued Accounting Updates
:
 
In
August
2016,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No
2016
-
15,
“Classification of certain cash receipts and cash payments”. This ASU addresses the following
eight
specific cash flow issues: Debt prepayment or debt extinguishment costs; settlement of
zero
-coupon debt instruments or other debt instruments with coupon interest rates that are insignificant in relation to the effective interest rate of the borrowing; contingent consideration payments made after a business combination; proceeds from the settlement of insurance claims; proceeds from the settlement of corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLIs) (including bank-owned life insurance policies (BOLIs)); distributions received from equity method investees; beneficial interests in securitization transactions; and separately identifiable cash flows and application of the predominance principle. The guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2017,
and interim periods within those fiscal years with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this ASU is not expected to materially impact our consolidated financial statements.
 
In
March
2016,
the FASB issued ASU No
2016
-
09,
“Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting”. This ASU is part of the FASB’s Simplification Initiative and has been issued to reduce complexity in the presentation of employee 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 guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2016
and interim periods within those fiscal years with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this ASU did not materially impact our consolidated financial statements.
 
In
February
2016,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2016
-
02,
“Leases”, which specifies the accounting for leases. The objective is to establish the principles that lessees and lessors shall apply to report useful information to users of financial statements about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from a lease. This ASU introduces the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance. The guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2018
and interim periods within those fiscal years with early adoption permitted. We are in the process of evaluating the impact of the future adoption of this standard on our consolidated financial statements.
 
In
May
2014,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2014
-
09,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” This ASU is a joint project initiated by the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board to clarify the principles for recognizing revenue and to develop a common revenue standard for U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and International Financial Reporting Standards that will: remove inconsistencies and weaknesses in revenue requirements; provide a more robust framework for addressing revenue issues; improve comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdictions and capital markets; provide more useful information to users of financial statements through improved disclosure requirements; and simplify the preparation of financial statements by reducing the number of requirements to which an entity must refer. As originally proposed, the guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2016,
including interim periods within that reporting period. The adoption of this ASU is not expected to materially impact our consolidated financial statements. In
August
2015,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2015
-
14,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” This ASU deferred the effective date of ASU No.
2014
-
09
by
one
year.