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Fair Value Measurements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Fair Value Measurements [Abstract]  
Fair Value Measurements
Note 11 - Fair Value Measurements

The Company applies fair value standards for recurring financial assets and liabilities only.  The accounting framework for determining fair value includes a hierarchy for ranking the quality and reliability of the information used to measure fair value, which enables the reader of the financial statements to assess the inputs used to develop those measurements.  The fair value hierarchy consists of three tiers as follows:

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets are available for identical assets and liabilities.

Level 2 – Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that reflect a reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.

The carrying amounts reported in the balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents are based on Level 1 criteria approximate fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments. The fair value of investment securities - held to maturity and investment securities held for trading are based on current market quotations and therefore are based on Level 2 criteria.