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Note 3 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted

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Note 3 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
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3.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
 
In
June 2018,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) published published ASU
2018
-
07:
Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic
718
): Improvements to Non-employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. The amendment simplifies the application of share-based payment accounting for non-employees. The amendments in this ASU are effective for public business entities for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2018,
and interim periods within those fiscal years. The impact of the adoption of the standard did
not
have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
 
 
Recent
 
Accounting Pronouncements
Not
Yet Adopted
 
In
May 2016,
the FASB published ASU
2016
-
13
Financial Instruments – Credit losses (Topic
326
): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. The main objective of Topic
326
is to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. To achieve this objective, the amendments in this update replace the incurred loss impairment methodology in current U.S. GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. The amendment is effective for years beginning after
December 15, 2019
including interim periods with those years. Early adoption is permitted only for those annual reporting periods beginning on or after
December 15, 2018.
The Company continues to evaluate the impact of this accounting standard. The impact of adoption of the standard has
not
yet been determined.
 
In
January 2017,
the FASB published ASU
2017
-
04:
Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic
350
): Topic
350
seeks to simplify goodwill impairment testing requirements for public entities. Under the amendments in this update, an entity should perform its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value; however, the loss recognized should
not
exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. Additionally, an entity should consider income tax effects from any tax deductible goodwill on the carrying amount of the reporting unit when measuring the goodwill impairment loss, if applicable. The FASB also eliminated the requirements for any reporting unit with a
zero
or negative carrying amount to perform a qualitative assessment and, if it fails that qualitative test, to perform Step
2
of the goodwill impairment test. Therefore, the same impairment assessment applies to all reporting units. An entity is required to disclose the amount of goodwill allocated to each reporting unit with a
zero
or negative carrying amount of net assets. The amendments in this ASU are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December 15, 2019.
The impact of the adoption of the standard is being considered, however it is expected that this
may
reduce the complexity of evaluating goodwill for impairment.
 
In
August 2018,
the FASB published ASU
2018
-
13:
Fair Value Measurement (Topic
820
): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement. Topic
820
includes the removal, modification and additional of disclosure requirements. Topic
820
is effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December 15, 2019.
The impact of the adoption of the standard is
not
expected to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.