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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of ADTRAN®, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“ADTRAN”, the “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”) have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) applicable to interim financial information presented in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, certain information and notes required by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements are not included herein. The Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2019 is derived from audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP.

In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary to fairly state these interim statements have been recorded and are of a normal and recurring nature. The results of operations for an interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results for the full year. The interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in ADTRAN’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on February 25, 2020.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting period. The more significant estimates include excess and obsolete inventory reserves, warranty reserves, customer rebates, determination and accrual of deferred revenue components of multi-element sales agreements, estimated costs to complete obligations associated with deferred and accrued revenues and network installations, estimated income tax provision and income tax contingencies, fair value of stock-based compensation, assessment of goodwill and other intangibles for impairment, estimated lives of intangible assets, estimated pension liability and fair value of investments. Actual amounts could differ significantly from these estimates.

We assessed certain accounting matters that generally require consideration of forecasted financial information in context with the information reasonably available to us and the unknown future impacts of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) as of September 30, 2020 and through the date of this report. The accounting matters assessed included, but were not limited to, the allowance for doubtful accounts, current estimated credit losses, stock-based compensation, excess and obsolete inventory reserves, carrying value of goodwill, intangibles and other long-lived assets, financial assets, valuation allowances for tax assets and revenue recognition. While there was not a material impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2020 resulting from these assessments, future conditions related to the magnitude and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other factors, could result in material impacts to our consolidated financial statements in future reporting periods.

Correction of Immaterial Misstatements

During the three months ended June 30, 2019, the Company determined that there was an immaterial misstatement of its excess and obsolete inventory reserves in its previously issued annual and interim financial statements. The Company corrected this misstatement by recognizing a $0.8 million out-of-period adjustment during the three months ended June 30, 2019, which increased its excess and obsolete inventory reserve and cost of goods sold for the period. For the six months ended June 30, 2019, the out-of-period adjustment was a cumulative $0.2 million reduction in its excess and obsolete inventory reserve and cost of goods sold. In addition, the Company determined that a $1.0 million cash inflow related to an insurance recovery was incorrectly classified as a cash flow from operations instead of a cash flow from investing activities within the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2019. The Company corrected this misstatement in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 to correctly reflect the $1.0 million insurance recovery as a cash inflow from investing activities. Management determined that these misstatements were not material to any of its previously issued financial statements on both a quantitative and qualitative basis.

During the first quarter of 2020, it was determined that certain investments held in the Company’s stock for a deferred compensation plan accounted for as a Rabbi trust were incorrectly classified as long-term investments with the fair value of such investments incorrectly marked to market at each period end rather than classified as treasury stock held at historical cost. This plan has been in existence since 2011. The Company corrected this misstatement as an out-of-period adjustment in the three months ended March 31, 2020 by remeasuring the investment assets to their historical cost basis through the recording of a net investment gain of $1.5 million in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income (Loss) and then correcting the classification by decreasing the long-term investment balance at its remeasured cost basis of $2.8 million to treasury stock in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2020. Management has determined that this misstatement was not material to any of its previously issued financial statements and that correction of the misstatement is also not expected to be material to the 2020 annual financial results on either a quantitative or qualitative basis.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

During 2020, we adopted the following accounting standards, which had the following impacts on our consolidated financial statements:

 

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. ASU 2016-13 requires the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial instruments held at amortized cost. In November 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-19, Codification Improvements to Topic 326 Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, which clarifies that receivables arising from operating leases are not within the scope of the credit losses standard, but rather should be accounted for in accordance with the standard for leases. In April 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-04, Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments–Credit Losses, Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments, which clarifies the accounting for transfers between classifications of debt securities and clarifies that entities should include expected recoveries on financial assets in the calculation of the current expected credit loss allowance. In addition, renewal options that are not unconditionally cancelable should be considered in the determination of expected credit losses. In May 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-05, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief, which amends ASU 2016-13 to allow companies, upon adoption, to elect the fair value option on financial instruments that were previously recorded at amortized cost if they meet certain criteria. In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-11, Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, which makes various narrow-scope amendments to the new credit losses standard, such as providing disclosure relief for accrued interest receivables. All of these ASUs were codified as part of Accounting Standards Codifications (“ASC”) Topic 326 and were effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2020, using a modified-retrospective approach and, therefore, elected to carry forward legacy disclosures for comparative periods and did not adjust the comparative period financial information. Additionally, the Company made an accounting policy election, at the class of financing receivable, not to measure the allowance for credit losses for accrued interest receivables, as the Company writes off the uncollectable accrued interest receivable by reversing any previously recorded interest income in a timely manner (as soon as these amounts are determined to be uncollectable). The adoption of this standard did not have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements. See Note 19 for additional information.

 

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. ASU 2017-04 simplifies the measurement of goodwill by eliminating step 2 of the goodwill impairment test. Under ASU 2017-04, entities are required to compare the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount and recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value. ASU 2017-04 was effective for annual or interim impairment tests performed in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company adopted ASU 2017-04 on January 1, 2020, and the amendments were applied prospectively. The adoption of this standard did not have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement, which changes the fair value measurement disclosure requirements of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement. The amendments in this ASU are the result of a broader disclosure project, Concepts Statement No. 8 — Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting — Chapter 8 — Notes to Financial Statements, which the FASB finalized on August 28, 2018. The FASB used the guidance in the Concepts Statement to improve the effectiveness of ASC 820’s disclosure requirements. ASU 2018-13 provides users of financial statements with information about assets and liabilities measured at fair value in the statement of financial position or disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. More specifically, ASU 2018-13 requires disclosures about the valuation techniques and inputs that are used to arrive at measures of fair value, including judgments and assumptions that are made in determining fair value. In addition, ASU 2018-13 requires disclosures regarding the uncertainty in the fair value measurements as of the reporting date and how changes in fair value measurements affect performance and cash flows. The Company adopted ASU 2018-13 on January 1, 2020, and the adoption of this standard did not have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Intangibles Goodwill and Other Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract.  ASU 2018-15 clarifies certain aspects of ASU 2015-05, Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement. Specifically, ASU 2018-15 aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementations costs incurred to develop or obtain internal use software. The Company adopted ASU 2018-15 on January 1, 2020, retrospectively. The adoption of this standard resulted in a reclassification of $5.6 million from property, plant and equipment to other assets for certain previously capitalized costs related to information technology implementation projects that had not yet been placed in service on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019. There was no impact to previously reported net cash provided by (used in) operations on the statement of cash flows and no impact to the statements of income (loss) as no portion of the capitalized asset was depreciated in prior periods.

 

The following table illustrates the impact of adoption of ASU 2018-15 on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2019:

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2019

 

(In thousands)

 

Pre-Adoption

 

 

Effect of Adoption

 

 

As Presented Now

 

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Property, plant and equipment, net

 

$

73,708

 

 

$

(5,622

)

 

$

68,086

 

  Other assets

 

$

14,261

 

 

$

5,622

 

 

$

19,883

 

 

There was no impact upon adoption of ASU 2018-15 on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for nine months ended September 30, 2019 as outlined in the following tables:

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30, 2019

 

(In thousands)

 

Pre-Adoption

 

 

Effect of Adoption

 

 

As Presented Now

 

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Net loss

 

$

(46,123

)

 

$

 

 

$

(46,123

)

 

 

 

Nine months ended September 30, 2019

 

(In thousands)

 

Pre-Adoption

 

 

Effect of Adoption

 

 

As Presented Now

 

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Net loss

 

$

(41,358

)

 

$

 

 

$

(41,358

)

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Net cash provided by operating activities

 

$

10,082

 

 

$

 

 

$

10,082

 

 

The following table presents the capitalized implementation costs incurred with hosting arrangements, included in other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet, as of September 30, 2020:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2020

 

Implementation costs - hosting arrangements

 

$

10,455

 

Less: accumulated amortization

 

 

 

Implementation costs - hosting arrangements, net

 

$

10,455

 

 

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which simplifies the accounting for income taxes by removing various exceptions, such as the exception to the incremental approach for intra-period tax allocation when there is a loss from continuing operations and income or a gain from other items. The amendments in this update also simplify the accounting for income taxes related to income-based franchise taxes and require that an entity reflect enacted tax laws or rates in the annual effective tax rate computation in the interim period that includes the enactment date. The Company early adopted ASU 2019-12 on April 1, 2020, which was applied on a prospective basis as if the Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2020. The Company early adopted the standard to take advantage of the simplification of rules for income taxes on intra-period tax allocations. Specifically, the adoption of this standard resulted in the recognition of approximately $0.1 million of tax benefit in other comprehensive income (loss), that otherwise would have been recognized in continuing operations had the intra-period tax allocation been completed. There were no other impacts from this standard on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss) or Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-14, Compensation – Retirement Benefits – Defined Benefit Plans – General (Subtopic 715-20): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans, which makes changes to and clarifies the disclosure requirements related to defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans. ASU 2018-14 requires additional disclosures related to the reasons for significant gains and losses affecting the benefit obligation and an explanation of any other significant changes in the benefit obligation or plan assets that are not otherwise apparent in other disclosures required by ASC 715. ASU 2018-14 also clarifies the guidance in ASC 715 to require disclosure of the projected benefit obligation (“PBO”) and fair value of plan assets for pension plans with PBOs in excess of plan assets and the accumulated benefit obligation (“ABO”) and fair value of plan assets for pension plans with ABOs in excess of plan assets. ASU 2018-14 is effective for public business entities for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this guidance will have on its related disclosures.