Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies A complete listing of the Company’s significant accounting policies is discussed in Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 . Recent Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued ASU 2014 ‑09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)”. This ASU requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. In August 2015, the FASB deferred the effective date by one year to annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The FASB is permitting early adoption of the standard, but not until annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, the original effective date. An entity may choose to adopt this ASU either retrospectively or through a cumulative effect adjustment as of the start of the first period for which it applies the standard. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, “Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net)”, which clarifies the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations of ASU 2014-09. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, “Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing”, which clarifies the identification of performance obligations and the licensing implementation guidance of ASU 2014-09. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact that this new guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements and its method of adoption. In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, “Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement”. This ASU provides guidance to customers about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license. If a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, then the customer should account for the software license element of the arrangement consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses. If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license, the customer should account for the arrangement as a service contract. In addition, this update changes the accounting for software licenses to be consistent with other licenses of intangible assets. This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2015-05 on January 1, 2016 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In September 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-16, “Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments”. This ASU requires that an acquirer recognize adjustments to provisional amounts that are identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined. The amendments in this ASU require that the acquirer record, in the same period’s financial statements, the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of the change to the provisional amounts, calculated as if the accounting had been completed at the acquisition date. This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2015-16 on January 1, 2016 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases”. This ASU requires that a lessee record an operating lease in the balance sheet with a liability to make lease payments and a right-of-use asset representing its right to use the underlying asset for the lease term. This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. Adoption of this standard will be on a modified retrospective approach, which includes a number of optional practical expedients that the Company may elect to apply. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact that this new guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements and its method of adoption. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, “Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting”. This ASU simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, treatment of forfeitures and classification on the statement of cash flows. This standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact that this new guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements. |