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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
There have been no changes to our significant accounting policies described in Note 2 to our Annual Report on Form
10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2020 filed with the SEC on March 4, 2021, that have had a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Changes to accounting principles are established by the FASB in the form of ASUs to the FASB’s Codification. We consider the applicability and impact of all ASUs on our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or presentation thereof. Described below are ASUs that may be applicable to our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or presentation thereof. ASUs not listed below were assessed and determined to not be applicable to our financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or presentation thereof.
In January 2021, the FASB issued ASU
2021-01,
Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Scope
, which refines the scope of ASC 848,
Reference Rate Reform
, and clarifies guidance as part of the FASB’s ongoing monitoring of global reference rate reform activities. The ASU permits entities to elect certain optional expedients and exceptions when accounting for derivative contracts and certain hedging relationships affected by changes in the interest rates used for discounting cash flows, computing variation margin settlements, and calculating price alignment interest in connection with reference rate reform activities under way in global financial markets. The ASU is effective upon issuance and did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or presentation thereof.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU
2016-13,
Financial Instruments-Credit Losses,
which changes the impairment model for most financial assets and certain other instruments. For trade and other receivables,
held-to-maturity
debt securities, loans and other instruments, entities will be required to use a new forward-looking “expected loss” model that will replace today’s “incurred loss” model and generally will result in the earlier recognition of allowances for losses. For
available-for-sale
debt securities with unrealized losses, entities will measure credit losses in a manner similar to current practice, except that the losses will be recognized as an allowance. Subsequent to issuing ASU
2016-13,
the FASB issued ASU
2018-19,
Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses
, for the purpose of clarifying certain aspects of ASU
2016-13.
ASU
2018-19
has the same effective date and transition requirements as ASU
2016-13.
In April 2019, the FASB issued ASU
2019-04,
Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments
, which is effective with the adoption of ASU
2016-13.
In May 2019, the FASB issued ASU
2019-05,
Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326)
, which is also effective with the adoption of ASU
2016-13.
In October 2019, the FASB voted to delay the implementation date for certain companies, including those, such as Salem, that qualify as a smaller reporting company under SEC rules, until January 1, 2023. We will adopt this ASU on its effective date of January 1, 2023. We do not expect the adoption of this ASU to have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or presentation thereof.