Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Consolidation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly-owned. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated. Revenue Recognition The Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which supersedes nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP, on January 1, 2018. The Company recognizes revenues, net of sales incentives and sales returns, including shipping and handling charges billed to customers, upon delivery of goods to the customer at an amount that the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods in accordance with the five-step analysis outlined in Topic 606: (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) performance obligations are satisfied. A further requirement of ASU 2014-09 is for entities to Shipping Costs The Company records shipping costs incurred as a component of selling, general, and administrative expenses. Shipping costs incurred were approximately $3.2 million and $2.2 million for the three months ending March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Fair Value GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value. That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under GAAP are described below: · Level 1 – Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets at the measurement date. · Level 2 – Inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means. · Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that reflect management’s best estimate of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date. Derivative Instruments Foreign Currency Forward Contracts: Interest Rate Swap Agreements: Risks and Uncertainties Manufacturers and sellers of tobacco products are subject to regulation at the federal, state, and local levels. Such regulations include, among others, labeling requirements, limitations on advertising, and prohibition of sales to minors. The trend in recent years has been toward increased regulation of the tobacco industry. There can be no assurance as to the ultimate content, timing, or effect of any regulation of tobacco products by any federal, state, or local legislative or regulatory body, nor can there be any assurance that any such legislation or regulation would not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. The tobacco industry has experienced, and is experiencing, significant product liability litigation. Most tobacco liability lawsuits have been brought against manufacturers and sellers of cigarettes for injuries allegedly caused by smoking or exposure to smoke. However, several lawsuits have been brought against manufacturers and sellers of smokeless products for injuries to health allegedly caused by use of smokeless products. Typically, such claims assert that use of smokeless products is addictive and causes oral cancer. Additionally, several lawsuits have been brought against manufacturers and distributors of NewGen products due to malfunctioning devices. There can be no assurance the Company will not sustain losses in connection with such lawsuits and that such losses will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. Master Settlement Agreement (MSA): The Company has chosen to invest a portion of the MSA escrow deposits in U.S. Government securities including TIPS, Treasury Notes, and Treasury Bonds. These investments are classified as available-for-sale and carried at fair value. Realized losses are prohibited under the MSA; any investment in an unrealized loss position will be held until the value is recovered, or until maturity. The following shows the fair value of the MSA escrow account: As of March 31, 2018 As of December 31, 2017 Cost Gross Unrealized Losses Estimated Fair Value Cost Gross Unrealized Losses Estimated Fair Value Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,072 $ - $ 3,072 $ 3,602 $ - $ 3,602 U.S. Governmental agency obligations(unrealized loss position < 12 months) 27,739 (1,706 ) 26,033 722 (17 ) 705 U.S. Governmental agency obligations (unrealized loss position > 12 months) 1,247 (36 ) 1,211 27,733 (1,214 ) 26,519 $ 32,058 $ (1,742 ) $ 30,316 $ 32,057 $ (1,231 ) $ 30,826 Fair value for the U.S. Governmental agency obligations are Level 2. The following shows the maturities of the U.S. Governmental agency obligations: As of March 31, 2018 December 31, 2017 Less than five years $ 7,114 $ 7,114 Six to ten years 18,913 17,662 Greater than ten years 2,959 3,679 Total U.S. Governmental agency obligations $ 28,986 $ 28,455 The following shows the amount of deposits by sales year for the MSA escrow account: Deposits as of Sales Year March 31, 2018 December 31, 2017 1999 $ 211 $ 211 2000 1,017 1,017 2001 1,673 1,673 2002 2,271 2,271 2003 4,249 4,249 2004 3,714 3,714 2005 4,552 4,552 2006 3,847 3,847 2007 4,167 4,167 2008 3,364 3,364 2009 1,626 1,626 2010 406 406 2011 193 193 2012 199 199 2013 173 173 2014 143 143 2015 101 101 2016 81 81 2017 71 70 Total $ 32,058 $ 32,057 Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”): cigars, pipe tobacco, electronic cigarettes (“e-cigarettes”), vaporizers, and e-liquids as “deemed” tobacco products under the FSPTCA. The FDA assesses tobacco product user fees on six classes of regulated tobacco products and computes user fees using a methodology similar to the methodology used by the U.S Department of Agriculture to compute the Tobacco Transition Payment Program (“TTPP,” also known as the “Tobacco Buyout”) assessment. First, the total, annual, congressionally established user fee assessment is allocated among the various classes of tobacco products using the federal excise tax weighted market share of tobacco products subject to regulation. Then, the assessment for each class of tobacco products is divided among individual manufacturers and importers. Prior to October 1, 2016, these FDA user fees applied only to those products then regulated by the FDA. Effective October 1, 2016, the FDA began additionally applying FDA user fees to newly deemed tobacco products subject to FDA user fees as described above, i.e. On July 28, 2017, the FDA announced a new direction in regulating tobacco products, including the newly “deemed” markets such as cigars and vapor products. The FDA stated it intends to begin several new rulemaking processes, some of which will outline foundational rules governing the premarket application process for the deemed products, including Substantial Equivalence Applications and Premarket Tobacco Applications. Compliance and related costs could be significant and could increase the costs of operating in our NewGen segment. The original filing deadlines for newly “deemed” products on the market as of August 8, 2016, have been postponed until August 8, 2021, for “combustible” products ( e.g. e.g. i.e. Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted The Company adopted ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) The Company adopted Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income The adoption of this ASU resulted in a reclassification of stranded tax effects related to the TCJA from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings of less than $0.1 million. The Company adopted ASU 2017-07, Compensation—Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost The Company adopted ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash Recent Accounting Pronouncements In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), Leases |