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New Accounting Pronouncements
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes In Accounting Principles [Abstract]  
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Text Block]

12. New Accounting Pronouncements

 

On January 1, 2012, FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-08, Testing Goodwill for Impairment ("ASU 2011-08") became effective. This standard gives an entity the option of performing a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is necessary to perform step 1 of the annual goodwill impairment test. An entity is required to perform step 1 only if it concludes that it is more likely than not that a reporting unit's fair value is less than its carrying amount. An entity may choose to perform the qualitative assessment on none, some or all of its reporting units or an entity may bypass the qualitative assessment for any reporting unit in any period and proceed directly to step 1 of the impairment test. We perform our annual impairment test at the beginning of the fourth quarter of each year.