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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES [Abstract]  
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
NOTE 2:- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
 
a.
The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of financial position and the results of operations for the interim periods presented have been reflected herein. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. Notes to the financial statements that would substantially duplicate the disclosure contained in the audited financial statements for the most recent fiscal year as reported in the Form 10-K have been omitted. Commencing July 2011, the Company ceased to consider itself a development stage company.
 
 
b.
Short-term deposits
 
The Company considers all highly liquid investments that are convertible to cash with original maturities of more than three months and less than one year as short-term deposits.
 
 
c.
Marketable Securities
 
The Company accounts for its investments in marketable securities in accordance with ASC 320, "Investments - Debt and Equity Securities". The Company determines the classification of marketable securities at the time of purchase and reevaluates such designations as of each balance sheet date. The Company classifies all of its marketable securities as available-for-sale. Available-for-sale marketable securities are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gain and loss reported as a separate component of shareholders' equity, accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
 
Realized gain and loss on sales of marketable securities are included in the Company's statements of operations and are derived using the specific identification basis for determining the cost of marketable securities. The amortized cost of available for sale marketable securities is adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discount to maturity. Such amortization, together with interest on available for sale marketable securities, is included in the financial income (expenses), net.
 
The Company recognizes an impairment charge when a decline in the fair value of its available-for-sale marketable securities below the cost basis is judged to be other-than-temporary. The Company considers various factors in determining whether to recognize an impairment charge, including the length of time the investment has been in a loss position, the extent to which the fair value has been less than the Company's cost basis, the investment's financial condition and the near-term prospects of the issuer. The Company adopted FASB ASC 320-10-65, which requires an other-than-temporary impairment for debt securities to be separated into (a) the amount representing the credit loss and (b) the amount related to all other factors (provided that the Company does not intend to sell the security and it is not more likely than not that it will be required to sell it before recovery). The Company classifies its marketable securities as available-for-sale and marks them to market with changes to other comprehensive income until realization or occurrence of other than temporary impairment loss.

 
d.
Revenue Recognition from the license Agreement with United Therapeutics
 
The Company recognizes revenue pursuant to the License Agreement with United Therapeutics in accordance with ASC 605-25, "Revenue Recognition, Multiple-Element Arrangements".  Pursuant to this guidance, the Company determined that its arrangement with United Therapeutics involves multiple revenue-generating deliverables that should be accounted for as a separate units of accounting for revenue recognition purposes.
 
The Company received an up-front, non-refundable license payment of $5,000. Additional payments totaling $37,500 are subject to the Company's meeting certain milestones.
 
The non-refundable upfront license fee of $5,000 is deferred and recognized over the related performance period in accordance with SAB 104, "Revenue Recognition". The Company estimated the performance period of the development of approximately 5.5 years. The license fee will be recognized on a straight line basis as revenue over the estimated development period, resulting in revenue of $615 for the nine months ended March 31, 2012.
 
The additional milestones payments will be recognized upon the achievement of the specific milestone, in accordance with ASC 605-28, "Milestone Method of Revenue Recognition".

The Company also received a refundable, advance payment on the development, of $2,000 that will be deductible against development expenses as it accrued. The upfront payment received and not recognized as revenues is included in the balance sheet as advanced payment. All expenses related to the development, on cost basis, shall be repaid to the Company by United Therapeutics. The Company is deducting the payments from the R&D expenses in accordance with ASC 730 "Research and Development".
 
During the nine month period ended March 31, 2012, the Company deducted an amount of approximately $491.

 
e.
Fair value of financial instruments:
 
The carrying amounts of the Company's financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, available-for-sale marketable securities, short-term deposits, trade payable and other accounts payable and accrued liabilities, approximate fair value because of their generally short term maturities.
 
The Company accounts for certain assets and liabilities at fair value under FASB ASC 820, "Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures." Fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or a liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, FASB ASC 820 establishes a three-tier value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:

Level 1 - Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets;

Level 2 - Includes other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions, or other inputs that are observable (model-derived valuations in which significant inputs are observable), or can be derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data; and

Level 3 - Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.

The fair value hierarchy also requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The Company categorized each of its fair value measurements in one of these three levels of hierarchy.

 
f.
Impact of recently issued accounting standards:
 
In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-04, "Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs." The new guidance does not extend the use of fair value accounting, but provides guidance on how it should be applied where its use is already required or permitted by other standards within GAAP or International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). The new guidance also changes the wording used to describe many requirements in GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements and it clarifies the FASB's intent about the application of existing fair value measurements. The Company adopted the provisions of this new guidance on January 1, 2012. The Company does not expect the adoption of the new provisions to have a material impact on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
 
On June 16, 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board  issued ASU No. 2011-05, "Presentation of Comprehensive Income" . This standard eliminates the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in shareholders' equity and provides for either a single continuous statement or two separate statements. Both options require companies to present the components of net income and total net income, the components of other comprehensive income along with a total for other comprehensive income. Companies are also required to present reclassification adjustments for items that are reclassified from other comprehensive income to net income within these statements. This standard will be applied retrospectively for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011 with early adoption permitted. The disclosure requirements of this standard will not have a material effect on the Company's results of operations or financial position as the amendment impacts presentation only.