LAM RESEARCH CORP | 2013 | FY | 3


Note 3: Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued new authoritative guidance that increases the prominence of items reported in other comprehensive income (“OCI”) by eliminating the option to present components of OCI as part of the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. The amendments in this standard require that all non-owner changes in stockholders’ equity be presented either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. The Company adopted this guidance in the September 2012 quarter. The implementation of this authoritative guidance did not have an impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations, but did change the presentation of the Company’s financial statements.

In February 2013, the FASB issued an accounting standard update regarding the reporting of amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income. The February 2013 update does not change the current requirements for reporting net income or other comprehensive income in financial statements. However, this update requires an entity to present on the face of the financial statements or in the notes amounts reclassified from each component of accumulated other comprehensive income and the income statement line items affected by the reclassification. As allowed in the update, the Company elected to early adopt these disclosure amendments in the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The implementation of this update did not impact the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows as it was disclosure-only in nature.

In July 2013, the FASB released Accounting Standards Update 2013-11 "Presentation of an Unrecognized Tax Benefit When a Net Operating Loss Carryforward, a Similar Tax Loss, or a Tax Credit Carryforward Exists". The new standard requires that an unrecognized tax benefit should be presented as a reduction of a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss carryforward or other tax credit carryforward when settlement in this manner is available under the tax law. The Company is required to adopt this standard starting fiscal year 2015 and is currently in the process of determining the impact, if any, on its financial position.


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