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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2013
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS  
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 2        RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

In March 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (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.

 

In July 2013, the FASB issued ASU No. 2013-11, Presentation of an Unrecognized Tax Benefit When a Net Operating Loss Carryforward, a Similar Tax Loss, or a Tax Credit Carryforward Exists, which provides explicit guidance on the financial statement presentation of an unrecognized tax benefit.  ASU No. 2013-11 requires unrecognized tax benefits to be presented as a reduction to a deferred tax asset, except that, if a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax loss or a tax credit carryforward is not available at the reporting date to settle any additional income taxes that would result from the disallowance of a tax position, then the unrecognized tax benefit should be presented as a liability.  ASU No. 2013-11 will be effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2013, and early adoption is permitted but has not been elected by the Company.  The adoption of ASU No. 2013-11 will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.