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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI") | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI") | 16. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”)—The following table lists the beginning balance, annual activity and ending balance of accumulated other comprehensive loss, which consists of foreign currency translation adjustments:
|  | Total |
Balance, December 31, 2016 |  | $ | (4,851 | )
FX translation |  |  | 757 |
Balance, March 31, 2017 |  |  | (4,094 | )
FX translation |  |  | 280 |
Balance, June 30, 2017 |  |  | (3,814 | )
FX translation |  |  | (67 | )
Balance, September 30, 2017 |  | $ | (3,881 | )

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