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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT POLICIES
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT POLICIES [Abstract] 
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT POLICIES
NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT POLICIES

New Accounting Pronouncements Adopted

Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses

Accounting Standards Update No. 2010-20 (ASU 2010-20), “Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses,” requires companies to provide more information in their disclosures about the credit quality of their financing receivables and the credit reserves held against them. ASU 2010-20 is intended to improve transparency in financial reporting by public and nonpublic companies that hold financing receivables, which include loans, lease receivables, and other long-term receivables. The disclosures required under ASU 2010-20 are included in Note 5.

Intangibles – Goodwill and other

In December 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an accounting pronouncement related to intangibles – goodwill and other (FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 350), which requires a company to consider whether there are any adverse qualitative factors indicating that an impairment may exist in performing step 2 of the impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts.  The provisions of this pronouncement are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2010, with no early adoption.  The adoption of this pronouncement beginning with the quarter ended June 30, 2011 did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
 
A Creditor's Determination of Whether a Restructuring Is a Troubled Debt Restructuring

In April 2011, the FASB issued an accounting pronouncement (ASU 2011-02) related to when a creditor's determination is considered a troubled debt restructuring, which amends guidance for evaluating whether the restructuring of a receivable by a creditor is a troubled debt restructuring.  ASU 2011-02 responds to concerns that creditors are inconsistently applying existing guidance for identifying troubled debt restructurings.  ASU 2011-02 is effective for a public entity for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after June 15, 2011.  Retrospective application is required for restructurings occurring on or after the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption for purposes of identifying and disclosing the troubled debt restructuring.  At the same time, the Company will be required to disclose the activity-based information about troubled debt restructurings that was previously deferred by FASB ASU No. 2011-1, Deferral of the Effective Date of Disclosures about Troubled Debt Restructurings in Update No. 2010-20.  The adoption of this pronouncement beginning with the quarter ended June 30, 2011 did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
 
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Fair Value Measurement

In May 2011, the FASB issued an accounting pronouncement (ASU 2011-04) related to fair value measurement (FASB ASC Topic 820), which amends current guidance to achieve common fair value measurement and disclosure requirements in U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards.  The amendments generally represent clarification of FASB ASC Topic 820, but also include instances where a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or disclosing information about fair value measurements has changed.  This pronouncement is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  The Company will adopt this pronouncement for our fiscal year beginning April 1, 2012.  The Company does not expect this pronouncement to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

Comprehensive Income

In June 2011, the FASB issued an accounting pronouncement that provides new guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income (FASB ASC Topic 220) in financial statements.  Entities are required to present total comprehensive income either in a single, continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate, but consecutive statements.  Under the single-statement approach, entities must include the components of net income, a total for net income, the components of other comprehensive income and a total for comprehensive income.  Under the two-statement approach, entities must report an income statement and, immediately following, a statement of other comprehensive income.  Under either method, entities must display adjustments for items reclassified from other comprehensive income to net income in both net income and other comprehensive income.  The provisions for this pronouncement are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted.  The Company will adopt this pronouncement for our fiscal year beginning April 1, 2012.

Testing Goodwill for Impairment

ASU 2011-08, “Testing Goodwill for Impairment,” permits an entity to make a qualitative assessment of whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit's fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step goodwill impairment test. If an entity concludes it is not more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, it need not perform the two-step impairment test.  The ASU is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted.  The Company will adopt this pronouncement for our fiscal year beginning April 1, 2012.