Recent Accounting Requirements | Note 17. Recent Accounting Requirements In August 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued amended guidance to improve the financial reporting of hedging relationships to better portray the economic results of an entity’s risk management activities in its financial statements, as well as to simplify the application of hedge accounting. The amended presentation and disclosure guidance is required prospectively. The guidance will be effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and early adoption is permitted. We are currently assessing the impact of this guidance on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, and disclosures. In May 2017, the FASB issued amended guidance that provides clarity on which changes to share-based awards are considered substantive and require modification accounting to be applied. This guidance will be effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. We do not regularly modify the terms and conditions of share-based awards and do not believe adoption of this amended guidance will have a significant effect on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, and disclosures. In March 2017, the FASB issued guidance that requires employers with defined benefit plans to present only the service cost component of net periodic benefit cost in the same income statement line item(s) as other employee compensation costs arising from services rendered during the period. Employers are required to present the other components of the net periodic benefit cost separately from the line item(s) that includes the service cost and outside of any subtotal of operating income. Components other than the service cost component will not be eligible for capitalization in assets. Employers are required to apply the guidance on the presentation of the components of net periodic benefit cost in the income statement retrospectively, while the guidance that limits the capitalization of net periodic benefit cost in assets to the service cost component must be applied prospectively. This guidance will be effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The other components of net periodic pension cost totaled approximately $13 million and $53 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and October 1, 2016, respectively. The amount in 2016 included a recognized loss on settlement of approximately $41 million. We continue to assess the impact of this guidance on the presentation of our results of operations and disclosures. In January 2017, the FASB issued amended guidance that simplifies the subsequent measurement of goodwill. This amended guidance eliminates step two of the goodwill impairment test, so that a goodwill impairment will be the amount by which a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the carrying amount of goodwill. We adopted this guidance in the third quarter of 2017. This adoption did not have a significant impact on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or disclosures. In October 2016, the FASB issued guidance that requires companies to recognize the income tax effects of intra-entity sales and transfers of assets other than inventory in the period in which they occur. This guidance will be effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The guidance requires modified retrospective adoption. Upon adoption, we expect to derecognize tax-related deferred charges and recognize deferred taxes related to certain intra-entity asset transfers as a net reduction to retained earnings. We do not believe adoption of this guidance will have a significant effect on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, and disclosures. In March 2016, the FASB issued guidance on accounting for leases that requires lessees to recognize the rights and obligations created by leases on their balance sheets. This guidance, which will be effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, also requires enhanced disclosures regarding the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this guidance as of the effective date. A modified retrospective approach is required for adoption with respect to all leases that exist at or commence after the date of initial application, with an option to use certain practical expedients. While we are currently assessing the impact of this guidance on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, and disclosures, we expect its adoption to have a significant impact on our financial position and disclosures. In May 2014, and in subsequent updates, the FASB issued revised guidance on revenue recognition. This revised guidance provides a single comprehensive model for accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers and supersedes most current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. This revised guidance requires an entity to recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. This revised guidance creates a five-step model that requires entities to exercise judgment when considering the terms of contract(s), which includes (i) identifying the contract(s) with the customer, (ii) identifying the separate performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determining the transaction price, (iv) allocating the transaction price to the separate performance obligations, and (v) recognizing revenue when each performance obligation is satisfied. This revised guidance also requires additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including qualitative and quantitative information about contracts with customers, significant judgments and changes in judgments, and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. This revised guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within those fiscal years, and can be applied retrospectively either to each prior reporting period presented (“full retrospective”) or with the cumulative effect of adoption recognized at the date of initial application (“modified retrospective”). We expect to adopt this revised guidance under the modified retrospective approach in the first quarter of 2018. We established a project plan and cross-functional team to manage the assessment, design, and implementation of this new guidance. Based on our assessment to date, we do not anticipate that the adoption of this revised guidance will have a significant impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. Upon adoption of this guidance, allowances for customer returns, currently presented as a reduction of trade accounts receivable, will be classified as a returns liability. The allowance for customer returns was $12.1 million and $10 million as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. Upon adoption, we do not expect the value of return assets to be significant. We are in the process of implementing appropriate changes to processes, policies, systems, and controls to support revenue recognition and disclosures in accordance with the revised guidance. |