Keysight Technologies, Inc.KEYS

Keysight Technologies, Inc. New Standards Disclosure

10-KFiled Dec 17, 20202 min read
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NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
We adopted ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, on November 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective method for all contracts not completed as of the date of adoption. The reported results for 2020 and 2019 reflect the application of ASC 606, while the reported results for 2018 were prepared under the guidance of ASC 605, Revenue Recognition.
In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2016-02, or ASC 842, that requires substantially all leases to be reported on the balance sheet as ROU assets and lease obligations and also requires disclosures by lessees and lessors about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. Consistent with current GAAP, the recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification as a finance or operating lease.
We adopted the standard on November 1, 2019, using the modified retrospective transition approach provided by ASU 2018-11, Leases: Targeted Improvements, with the cumulative effect of initially applying the standard recognized at the date of adoption. Under this method of adoption, comparative information has not been restated and continues to be reported under the standards in effect (ASC 840) for the prior periods presented. Adoption of the standard resulted in recording ROU assets and lease obligations for our operating leases of approximately $155 million and $164 million, respectively, but did not have a material impact on beginning retained earnings, the consolidated statement of operations, cash flows, or earnings per share.
We elected the package of practical expedients for leases that commenced before the effective date of ASC 842, whereby we elected to not reassess the following: (i) whether any expired or existing contracts contain leases; (ii) the lease classification for any expired or existing leases; and (iii) initial direct costs for any existing leases. In addition, we have lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, and we have elected the practical expedient for all underlying asset classes and account for them as a single lease component. Our finance lease and lessor arrangements are immaterial.
Other amendments to GAAP that have been issued by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies that do not require adoption until a future date are not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2020Dec 17, 2020Showing above
2019Dec 18, 2019
2018Dec 18, 2018
2017Dec 20, 2017
2016Dec 19, 2016
2015Dec 21, 2015

About New Standards Disclosures

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