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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

May

2014,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)

No.

2014

09,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASU

2014

). This new standard will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP. The core principle of ASU

2014

is that an entity should recognize revenue for the transfer of goods or services equal to the amount it expects to receive for those goods and services. This ASU requires additional disclosures about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and estimates and changes in those estimates. In

August 2015,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2015

14,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Deferral of the Effective Date, which delayed the effective date of ASU

2014

one

year to

January 1, 2018.

March 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

08,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), which clarifies the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations and includes indicators to assist an entity in determining whether it controls a specified good or service before it is transferred to the customers. In

April

2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

10,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic

606

) - Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, which reduces the complexity when applying the guidance for identifying performance obligations and improves the operability and understandability of the license implementation guidance. In

May 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

12,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic

606

) - Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients (ASU

2016

), which amends the guidance on transition, collectability, non-cash consideration, and the presentation of sales and other similar taxes. ASU

2016

clarifies that, for a contract to be considered completed at transition, all (or substantially all) of the revenue must have been recognized under existing U.S. GAAP. In addition, ASU

2016

clarifies how an entity should evaluate the collectability threshold and when an entity can recognize nonrefundable consideration received as revenue if an arrangement does

not

meet the standard’s contract criteria. The standard allows for both retrospective and modified retrospective methods of adoption. While the Company is in the process of evaluating the effect of adoption on the consolidated financial statements and is currently assessing its contracts with customers, the Company does

not

expect the adoption of this standard will have a material impact on the results of operations, cash flows or financial position. The Company anticipates it will expand the consolidated financial statement disclosures in order to comply with the new standard and has

not

concluded on the transition method upon adoption.

February 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

02,

Leases (Topic

842

). The new standard was issued 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. This standard affects any entity that enters into a lease, with some specified scope exemptions. The guidance in this update supersedes FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”)

840,

Leases. The amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this ASU on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. We believe the adoption of the standard will likely have a material impact to our Consolidated Balance Sheets for the recognition of certain operating leases as right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. We are in the early process of analyzing our lease portfolio and evaluating systems to comply with the standard’s retrospective adoption requirements.

August 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

15,

Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments (ASU

2016

). This ASU provides guidance to clarify how certain cash receipts and payments should be presented in the statement of cash flows. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after

December 15, 2017,

and interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted in any annual or interim period. The updated guidance requires a modified retrospective adoption. The Company is evaluating the impact of adoption of ASU

2016

on the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flow.

October 2016,

the FASB issued guidance that simplifies the accounting for the income tax consequences of intra-entity transfers of assets other than inventory. Current U.S. GAAP prohibits the recognition in earnings of current and deferred income taxes for an intra-entity transfer until the asset is sold to an outside party or recovered through use. This amendment simplifies the accounting by requiring entities to recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory when the transfer occurs. The new guidance, which could impact effective tax rates, becomes effective

January 1, 2018

and requires modified retrospective application. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of an annual reporting period for which interim or annual financial statements have

not

yet been issued. The Company is evaluating the impact of adoption of this guidance on the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flow.

November 2016,

the FASB released guidance that addresses the diversity in practice in the classification and presentation of changes in restricted cash on the statement of cash flows. Amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. This guidance becomes effective

January 1, 2018

and must be applied on a retrospective basis. This guidance will result in a change in presentation of our consolidated statement of cash flows.

March 2017,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2017

07,

Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost (ASU

2017

). The update requires employers to present the service cost component of the net periodic benefit cost in the same income statement line item as other employee compensation costs arising from services rendered during the period. The other components of net benefit cost, including interest cost, expected return on plan assets, amortization of prior service cost/credit and actuarial gain/loss, and settlement and curtailment effects, are to be presented outside of any subtotal of operating income. Employers will have to disclose the line(s) used to present the other components of net periodic benefit cost, if the components are

not

presented separately in the income statement. ASU

2017

is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after

December

15,

2017,

and early adoption is permitted. The Company does

not

expect the adoption of ASU

2017

to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

May 2017,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2017

09,

which is an update to Topic

718,

Compensation - Stock Compensation. The update provides guidance on determining which changes to the terms and conditions of share-based payment awards, including stock options, require an entity to apply modification accounting under Topic

718.

The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2017,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does

not

expect the adoption of ASU

2017

to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.