In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which is intended to simplify the accounting and reporting for employee share-based payment transactions. The pronouncement is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 31, 2016 with early adoption permitted. The adoption of the guidance in ASU No. 2016-09 in the first quarter of 2017 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which when effective will require organizations that lease assets (e.g., through “leases”) to recognize assets and liabilities for the rights and obligations created by the leases on the balance sheet. A lessee will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with terms that exceed twelve months. The standard will also require disclosures to help investors and financial statement users better understand the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The disclosures include qualitative and quantitative requirements, providing additional information about the amounts recorded in the financial statements. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial position and results of operations.

In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, “Revenue from Contract with Customers - Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients”. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers - Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing”. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, “Revenue from Contract with Customers - Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net)”. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-14 deferring the effective date to annual and interim periods. In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. The core principle of these ASUs are that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of 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. The amendments in ASU 2016-12 affect only the narrow aspects of the guidance, such as assessing the collectability criterion and accounting for contracts that do not meet the criterion, presentation of sales and other similar taxes collected from customers, non-cash consideration, and contract modifications at transition. ASU 2016-10 clarifies two aspects of the guidance: identifying performance obligations and the licensing implementation. The intention of ASU 2016-08 is to improve the operability and understandability of the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations. ASU 2015-14 defers the effective date to annual and interim periods beginning on or after December 15, 2017, and early adoption will be permitted, but not earlier than the original effective date of annual and interim periods beginning on or after December 15, 2016, for public entities.

ASU 2014-09 defines a five-step process to achieve this core principle of and revenue recognition, in doing so, it is possible more judgment and estimates may be required within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing GAAP. The Company will adopt the new revenue standard as of January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective method. The Company is currently allocating accounting resources including a third party consulting firm to assess its contracts in each of the five steps involved with the new standard and has not yet determined the impact from the adoption of this ASU on either its financial position or results of operations.