2. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” ASU No. 2014-09 clarifies the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) that removes inconsistencies and weaknesses in revenue requirements, provides a more robust framework for addressing revenue issues, improves comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdictions, and capital markets, provides more useful information to users of financial statements through improved disclosure requirements and simplifies the preparation of financial statements by reducing the number of requirements to which an entity must refer. ASU No. 2014-09 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017. Companies can choose to apply the ASU using either the full retrospective approach or a modified retrospective approach. The Company is currently evaluating both methods of adoption and the impact, if any, that the adoption of this ASU will have on the Company’s results of operations or the Company’s financial position.

In March 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, “Interest—Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30)”, which is simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs. The standard requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. ASU 2015-03 is effective for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company adopted the accounting standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. Prior to the adoption, debt issuance costs were classified as other assets. This presentation change was applied retrospectively to the condensed consolidated balance sheet and consequently, amounts related to debt issuance costs are presented as a direct deduction of the corresponding debt liability for all periods presented.

The effect on the condensed consolidating balance sheet as of January 30, 2016, as a result of this change in presentation, is a decrease of ($0.5) million in other assets, and a decrease of ($0.5) million in senior subordinated notes payable.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, “Inventory (Topic 330): Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory”, which requires inventory measured using any method other than last-in, first out (“LIFO”) or the retail inventory method to be subsequently measured at the lower of cost or net realizable value, rather than at the lower of cost or market. Under this ASU, subsequent measurement of inventory using the LIFO and retail inventory method is unchanged. ASU 2015-11 is effective prospectively for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2016. Early application is permitted. The adoption of ASU No. 2015-11 is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or the Company’s financial position.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842)” which requires an entity that is a lessee to recognize the assets and liabilities arising from leases on the balance sheet. This guidance also requires disclosures about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those annual periods, using a modified retrospective approach, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is evaluating the effect that the adoption will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-07, “Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting,” which eliminates the requirement to retroactively adjust an investment that subsequently qualifies for equity method accounting (as a result of an increase in level of ownership interest or degree of influence) as if the equity method of accounting had been applied during all prior periods that the investment was held. The new standard requires that the investor add the cost of acquiring additional ownership interest in the investee to its current basis and prospectively adopt the equity method of accounting. Any unrealized gains or losses in an available-for-sale investment that subsequently qualifies as an equity method investment should be recognized in earnings at the date the investment qualifies as an equity method investment. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016. This new guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, “Compensation — Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting,” which is part of the FASB’s Simplification Initiative. The updated guidance simplifies the accounting for share-based payment transactions. The amendments in this update are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements.

In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing”, which amends certain aspects of the FASB’s new revenue standard, ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”, specifically the standard’s guidance on identifying performance obligations and the implementation guidance on licensing. The amendments clarify when promised goods or services are separately identifiable (i.e., distinct within the context of a contract), an important step in determining whether goods and services should be accounted for as separate performance obligations. In addition, the amendments allow entities to disregard goods or services that are immaterial in the context of a contract and provide an accounting policy election for accounting for certain shipping and handling activities. The amendments also clarify how an entity should evaluate the nature of its promise in granting a license of intellectual property (IP), which will determine whether the entity recognizes revenue over time or at a point in time. The amendments revise the guidance to address how entities should apply the exception for sales- and usage-based royalties to licenses of IP, recognize revenue for licenses that are not separate performance obligations and evaluate different types of license restrictions (e.g., time-based, geography-based). The new guidance’s effective date and transition provisions are aligned with the requirements in the new revenue standard, which is not yet effective. The Company is currently evaluating the impact, if any, that the adoption of this ASU will have on the Company’s results of operations or the Company’s financial position.