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RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
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In April 2009, the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) issued FASB Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 320-10, Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments. FASB ASC 320-10 amends the other-than-temporary impairment guidance for debt securities to make the guidance more operational and to improve the presentation and disclosure of other-than-temporary impairments in the financial statements. The most significant change FASB ASC 320-10 brings is a revision to the amount of other-than-temporary loss of a debt security recorded in earnings. FASB ASC 320-10 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009 The Company’s adoption of FASB ASC 320-10 did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
In April 2009, the FASB issued FASB ASC 820-10, Determining Fair Value When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly. FASB ASC 820-10 provides additional guidance for estimating fair value when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. FASB ASC 820-10 also includes guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. This emphasizes that even if there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability and regardless of the valuation technique(s) used, the objective of a fair value measurement remains the same.

Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction (that is, not a forced liquidation or distressed sale) between market participants at the measurement date under current market conditions. FASB ASC 820-10 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009, and is applied prospectively. The Company’s adoption of FASB ASC 820-10 did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

In April 2009, the FASB issued FASB ASC 825-10, Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments. FASB ASC 825-10 amends previous guidance, to require disclosures about fair value of financial instruments for interim reporting periods of publicly traded companies as well as in annual financial statements. FASB ASC 825-10 also requires those disclosures in summarized financial information at interim reporting periods.  FASB ASC 825-10 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009. The Company’s adoption of FASB ASC 825-10 did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

 
In June 2009, the FASB issued FASB ASC 105-10, The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, a replacement of FASB Statement No. 162. FASB ASC 105-10 establishes the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“Codification”) as the source of authoritative GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied to nongovernmental entities. The only other source of authoritative GAAP is the rules and interpretive releases of the SEC which only apply to SEC registrants. The Codification superseded all the existing non-SEC accounting and reporting standards upon its effective date. Since the issuance of the Codification is not intended to change or alter existing GAAP, adoption of this statement did not have an impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations, but changed the way in which GAAP is referenced in the Company’s financial statements. FASB ASC 105-10 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after September 15, 2009.

In May 2009, the FASB issued FASB ASC 855-10, Subsequent Events, which establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before the financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. The Company adopted FASB ASC 855-10 effective April 1, 2009 and has evaluated subsequent events after the balance sheet date of June 30, 2011 through the date the financial statements were issued.

In October 2009, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2009-13, “Revenue Recognition (Topic 605)”. This Update provides amendments to the criteria in Subtopic 605-24 for separating consideration in multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements. It establishes a hierarchy of selling prices to determine the selling price of each specific deliverable which includes vendor-specific objective evidence (if available), third-party evidence (if vendor-specific evidence is not available), or estimated selling price if neither of the first two are available. This Update also eliminates the residual method for allocating revenue between the elements of an arrangement and requires that arrangement consideration be allocated at the inception of the arrangement. Finally, this Update expands the disclosure requirements regarding a vendor’s multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements. This Update is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. The Company’s adoption of this Update did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.