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Note 1 - Nature of the Business

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Note 1 - Nature of the Business
3 Months Ended
Apr. 01, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Business Description and Basis of Presentation [Text Block]
1.
Nature of the business
 
SMTC Corporation (the “Company” or “SMTC”) is a provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services, or EMS, including product design and sustaining engineering services, printed circuit board assembly, or PCBA, production, enclosure fabrication, cable assembly, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, configuration to order, build to order and direct order fulfilment. SMTC facilities span a broad footprint in the United States, Mexico, and China, with approximately
1,350
employees of which
1,087
are full-time employees. SMTC’s services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to growth, maturity and end of life phases. SMTC offers fully integrated contract manufacturing services to global original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and technology companies primarily within the industrial, computing and communications, power and energy and medical market segments. In addition, the Company operates an international sourcing and procurement office in Hong Kong and maintains its corporate headquarters in Markham, Canada.
 
The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles and methods of application disclosed in the audited consolidated financial statements within the Company’s Form
10
-K for the fiscal period ended
December 31, 2017, (
“Form
10
-K”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on
March 8, 2018,
except for the adoption of the new accounting policy for revenue recognition and the impact on our current accounting policy for inventory, which are outlined in Note
2.
The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements include adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the consolidated financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements contained in the Company’s Form
10
-K. The consolidated balance sheet at
December 31, 2017
was derived from the audited annual consolidated financial statements, but does
not
contain all of the footnote disclosures from the annual consolidated financial statements.
 
Unless otherwise specified or the context requires otherwise, all statements in these notes to the interim consolidated financial statements regarding financial figures are expressed in thousands of U.S. dollars.