Note 1 - Business and Basis of Presentation | 3 Months Ended |
Mar. 31, 2015 |
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Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block] | 1 | Business and basis of presentation |
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Description of business |
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Oxford Immunotec Global PLC (the “Company”), is a global, commercial-stage diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary tests for the management of immune-regulated conditions. The Company’s proprietary T-SPOT |
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technology platform allows it to measure the responses of specific immune cells to inform the diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of patients with immune-regulated conditions. Substantially all of the Company’s revenue is currently derived from the sale of its T-SPOT. |
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test, which is sold in two formats: an |
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diagnostic kit format (allowing customers to perform the test at their own institutions), and a service format (in which the Company performs the test on samples sent by customers to the Company’s own laboratory facilities). The Company markets its T-SPOT. |
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test through a direct sales force in the United States, certain European countries, and Japan. The Company markets its test through distributors in other parts of the world. |
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During the first quarter of 2015, the Company announced the availability in the United States of a new test that measures the strength of a patient's cellular immune response to cytomegalovirus, or CMV, infection. CMV can affect individuals with weaknesses in their T cell response and is therefore an important and common cause of morbidity and mortality in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. This T-SPOT. |
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test is available as a Laboratory Developed Test from the Company's Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendment, or CLIA, certified and College of American Pathologists, or CAP, accredited service laboratory. |
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Unaudited Interim Financial Statements |
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The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary for a fair statement of the financial position at March 31, 2015, the results of operations for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, and the cash flows for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. |
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The consolidated balance sheet presented as of December 31, 2014, has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements as of that date. The consolidated financial statements and notes included in this report should be read in conjunction with the 2014 consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 5, 2015 (the “Company’s 2014 Form 10-K”). |
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Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s 2014 Form 10-K describes the significant accounting estimates and policies used in preparation of the consolidated financial statements. There have been no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies during the three months ended March 31, 2015. |
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Recent accounting pronouncements |
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In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), issued Accounting Standards Update, or ASU, 2014-09, |
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, or ASU 2014-09 which converges the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board standard on revenue recognition. Under ASU 2014-09, a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. This guidance will be effective for the Company for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early adoption is not permitted. The guidance allows for either “full retrospective” adoption, meaning the standard is applied to all of the periods presented, or “modified retrospective” adoption, meaning the standard is applied only to the most current period presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently evaluating ASU 2014-09 and has not yet determined how it may impact the Company’s financial position or results of operations and related disclosures. |
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In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-15, |
Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern |
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ASU 2014-15 will be effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016 and early application is permitted. ASU 2014-15 requires that management evaluate at each annual and interim reporting period whether there is a substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date that the financial statements are issued. The Company does not expect that the application of ASU 2014-15 will have an impact on the presentation of its results of operations, financial position or disclosures. |
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In November 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-16, |
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The objective of ASU 2014-16 is to eliminate the existing diversity in practice in accounting for hybrid financial instruments issued in the form of a share. A hybrid financial instrument consists of a “host contract” into which one or more derivative terms have been embedded. ASU 2014-16 requires an entity to consider the terms and features of the entire financial instrument, including the embedded derivative features, in order to determine whether the nature of the host contract is more akin to debt or to equity. ASU 2014-16 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, |
2015, with early adoption permitted. A reporting entity should apply ASU 2014-16 using a modified retrospective approach by recording a cumulative-effect adjustment to equity as of the beginning of the annual period of adoption. Retrospective application is permitted to all relevant prior periods. The adoption of ASU 2014-16 on January 1, 2015 had no impact on the Company’s presentation of its results of operations, financial position or disclosures. |
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In January 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-01, |
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, or ASU 2015-01. ASU 2015-01 eliminates from GAAP the concept of extraordinary items. However, the presentation and disclosure guidance for items that are unusual in nature or occur infrequently will be retained and will be expanded to include items that are both unusual in nature and infrequently occurring. The amendments in ASU 2015-01 are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. A reporting entity may apply the amendments prospectively. A reporting entity also may apply the amendments retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The adoption of ASU 2015-01 on January 1, 2015 had no impact on the Company’s presentation of its results of operations, financial position or disclosures. |
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Under the U.S. Jumpstart our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies that become public can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption from new or revised accounting standards and, therefore, we are subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies. |