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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 30, 2013
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS  
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 2                         RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2013-02, Comprehensive Income: Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, which requires companies to disclose significant amounts that have been reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income.  Amounts that are required to be reclassified in their entirety to net income must be disclosed either on the face of the income statement or in the notes to the financial statements.  Amounts that are not required to be reclassified in their entirety to net income in the same reporting period must be disclosed by a cross reference to other disclosures that provide additional information regarding such amounts.  ASU No. 2013-02 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2012.  The adoption of ASU No. 2013-02 has not had a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

 

In March 2013, the FASB issued ASU No. 2013-05, Foreign Currency Matters: Parent’s Accounting for the Cumulative Translation Adjustment upon Derecognition of Certain Subsidiaries or Groups of Assets within a Foreign Entity or of an Investment in a Foreign Entity, which clarifies the guidance in Topics 810 and 830.  Topic 810 requires companies to deconsolidate a subsidiary or derecognize a group of assets if the parent ceases to hold a controlling financial interest in that subsidiary or group of assets.  Upon the loss of a controlling financial interest, the parent would recognize the cumulative translation adjustment in net income.  The guidance in Topic 810 does not distinguish between a sale or transfer of an investment in a foreign entity and a sale or transfer of a subsidiary or group of assets within a foreign entity.  Topic 830 requires the release of the cumulative translation adjustment into net income if a sale or transfer represented a complete or substantially complete liquidation of an investment in a foreign entity.  ASU No. 2013-05 clarifies that companies that cease to have a controlling financial interest in a subsidiary or group of assets within a foreign subsidiary should release the cumulative translation adjustment into net income if the sale or transfer results in a complete or substantially complete liquidation of the foreign entity in which the subsidiary or group of assets had resided.  ASU No. 2013-05 will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2013, and early adoption is permitted but has not been elected by the Company.  The adoption of ASU No. 2013-05 will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.