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IMPACT OF RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
IMPACT OF RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS [Abstract]  
IMPACT OF RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
NOTE 19

IMPACT OF RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, issued guidance, which replaces most of the existing guidance with a single set of principles for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers.  The guidance was effective January 1, 2018 and did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.  Disclosures related to Revenue Recognition are included in Note 2, Revenue Recognition.

In February 2016, the FASB issued new guidance on leases to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements.  The new standard establishes a right-of-use, or ROU, model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months.  Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement.  The Company will adopt this new standard during the first quarter of 2019 using the modified retrospective method and will not apply the standard to the comparative periods presented in the year of adoption.  The Company elected the practical expedient not to evaluate land easements that existed prior to implementation and were not previously accounted for as leases.  The Company is finalizing its implementation of the accounting and is updating certain of its business processes and internal controls to meet the reporting and disclosure requirements of the new standard.  The Company expects the amount of ROU assets and related liabilities to be recognized on its consolidated balance sheets will be approximately $500,000, with adoption not expected to have a material effect on the Company's results of operations or cash flows.