Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies) |
9 Months Ended |
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Apr. 30, 2018 | |
Accounting Policies [Abstract] | |
New Accounting Pronouncements, Policy [Policy Text Block] |
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-09, Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which requires all excess tax benefits or deficiencies to be recognized as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement. In addition, excess tax benefits should be classified along with other income tax cash flows as an operating activity in the statement of cash flows. We adopted this standard as of August 1, 2017. The adoption of this new standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. |
Pronouncements Issued but Not Yet Adopted [Policy Text Block] |
Pronouncements Issued but Not Yet Adopted In May 2014, FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Topic 606. ASU 2014-09 and its amendments supersede the current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The core principle of the revenue recognition standard is to require an entity to recognize as revenue the amount that reflects the consideration which it expects to be entitled to in exchange for the goods or services it transfers control of to its customers. The standard will be effective for our fiscal year beginning August 1, 2018 and its interim periods. We are not early adopting. We expect to use the full retrospective method upon adoption by applying the standard to each prior reporting period presented. We continue to evaluate the expected impact of the standard. Based on our preliminary assessment of the standard, we expect that the majority of the amounts that have historically been classified as bad debt expense, primarily related to patient responsibility, will be considered an implicit price concession in determining net revenues. Accordingly, we expect to report the estimate of uncollectible balances associated with patient responsibility as a reduction of the transaction price and therefore as a reduction in net revenues when historically these amounts were classified as bad debt expense within operating costs and expenses. The adoption of this standard will also result in increased disclosure, including qualitative and quantitative disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts from customers. However, the adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on our financial position or cash flows. In February 2016, FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02 – Leases (Topic 842). The new standard establishes a right-of-use (ROU) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months. Leases will be classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the income statement. The new standard is effective for our fiscal year beginning August 1, 2019 including interim periods within that fiscal year. A modified retrospective transition approach is required for lessees for capital and operating leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, with certain practical expedients available. We believe the adoption of this standard would materially impact our consolidated financial statements by significantly increasing our non-current assets and non-current liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets if we record the right of use assets and related lease liabilities for our existing operating leases. We will recognize expense in the consolidated statement of operations similar to current lease accounting, in the cost of sales and selling, general and administrative. In June 2016, FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13 Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326). This standard changes the impairment model for most financial instruments, including trade receivables, from an incurred loss method to a new forward-looking approach, based on expected losses. The estimate of expected credit losses will require entities to incorporate considerations of historical information, current information and reasonable and supportable forecasts. Adoption of this standard is required for our annual and interim periods beginning August 1, 2020 and must be adopted using a modified retrospective transition approach. We are currently assessing the impact of the adoption of this standard on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows. In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 708) Scope of Modification Accounting which provides guidance about which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require an entity to apply modification accounting in Topic 718. Adoption of this standard is required for our annual and interim periods beginning August 1, 2018 with the amendments in the update applied prospectively to an award modified on or after the adoption date. In May 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-05, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, regarding the accounting implications of the recently issued Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”). This standard is effective immediately. The update clarifies that in a company’s financial statements that include the reporting period in which the Act was enacted, the company must first reflect the income tax effects of the Act in which the accounting under GAAP is complete. These amounts would not be provisional amounts. The company would also report provisional amounts for those specific income tax effects for which the accounting under GAAP is incomplete but a reasonable estimate can be determined. We have recorded a provisional amount which we believe is a reasonable estimate of the effects of the Act on our financial statements as of April 30, 2018. Technical corrections or other forthcoming guidance could change how we interpret provisions of the Act, which may impact our effective tax rate and could affect our deferred tax assets, tax positions and/or our tax liabilities. |
Concentration Risk, Credit Risk, Policy [Policy Text Block] |
Concentration Risk Other than the Medicare program, one provider whose programs are included in the “Third-party payers” and “Health Maintenance Organizations” (“HMO’s”) categories represents approximately 40% and 38% of the Clinical Labs segment net revenue for the three months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively, and 39% and 38% for the nine months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. |