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- Recent accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
- Recent accounting Policies

Note 3 – Recent accounting Policies

 

In April 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU 2011-02, “Receivables (Topic 310): A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring is a Troubled Debt Restructuring”. This amendment explains which modifications constitute troubled debt restructurings (“TDR”). With this new guidance, the definition of a troubled debt restructuring remains essentially unchanged, but for loan modification to be considered a TDR, certain basic criteria must still be met. For public companies, the new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after June 15, 2011, and applies retrospectively to restructuring occurring on or after the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The Company does not expect that the guidance effective in future periods will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In May 2011, FASB issued ASU 2011-04 updating results in common fair value measurements and disclosure requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs.  Consequently, the amendments changes the wording used to describe many of the requirements in U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements. For many of the requirements, the Board does not intend for the amendments in this update to result in a change in the application of the requirements in Topic 820. Some of the amendments clarify the Board’s intention regarding the application of existing fair value measurement requirements. Other amendments change a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or for disclosing information about fair value measurements. For public entities, the new guideline is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011 and should be applied prospectively. The Company does not expect that the guidance effective in future periods will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-06 regarding fair value measurements and disclosures and improvement in the disclosure about fair value measurements.  This ASU requires additional disclosures regarding significant transfers in and out of Levels 1 and 2 of fair value measurements, including a description of the reasons for the transfers.  Further, this ASU requires additional disclosures for the activity in Level 3 fair value measurements, requiring presentation of information about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in the reconciliation for fair value measurements.  This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010, and for interim periods within those fiscal years.  The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 

In July 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-20, Receivables (Topic 310):  Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses.  This ASU amends FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 310, Receivables, improving the disclosures that an entity provides about the credit quality of its receivables and the related allowance for credit losses.  As a result of these amendments, an entity is required to separate, by segment or class of financing receivables, certain disclosures and provide certain new disclosures receivables and related credit losses.  This ASU is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending on or after December 15, 2010.  The adoption did not have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

 

On December 21, 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2010-29, which impacts any public entity that enters into business combinations that are material on an individual or aggregate basis. This ASU provides that if a public entity presents comparative financial statements, the entity should disclose revenues and earnings of the combined entity as if the business that occurred had occurred at the beginning of the prior annual period when preparing current and prior year reporting.  The guidance also requires that a narrative description regarding the nature and amount of material that is nonrecurring, be included in reporting revenues and earnings. This guidance is effective for business combinations consummated in periods beginning after December 15, 2010.  The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.