Note 2 - Accounting Policies
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Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block] |
2. ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
Foreign
Currency Translation Adjustment
During
the second quarter of 2011, the Company identified immaterial
errors related to certain long term assets, primarily
goodwill, that were being translated at historical foreign
currency exchange rates instead of current exchange rates.
The Company evaluated these errors and determined that the
impact to previously issued financial statements was not
material. To correct the identified foreign currency
translation errors, the Company has revised prior period
financial statements. As a result of this revision, total
assets and stockholders’ equity as of December 31, 2010
on the consolidated balance sheet were revised from the
previously reported amounts of $921.8 million and $605.8
million to $933.3 million and $617.3 million, respectively.
Additionally, stockholders’ equity as of December 31,
2009 on the consolidated statement of equity was revised from
the previously reported amount of $543.5 million to $553.8
million. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, total
comprehensive income as presented on the consolidated
statement of equity was revised from the previously reported
$14.4 million to $8.4 million.
These
translation errors also resulted in an immaterial
misstatement of reported depreciation expense in prior
periods. In addition, the Company was incorrectly eliminating
foreign currency gains or losses upon remeasurement of
certain intercompany transactions rather than recording these
gains or losses in earnings. To correct these errors, a
cumulative after-tax adjustment of $0.2 million (pre-tax
increase to depreciation expense of $2.2 million and a
pre-tax increase to foreign currency gain of $2.0 million),
or $0.00 per share, was recorded in the quarter ended June
30, 2011.
For
the Company’s international subsidiaries, the local
currency is generally the functional currency. Assets and
liabilities of these subsidiaries are translated into U.S.
dollars using rates in effect at the balance sheet date while
revenues and expenses are translated in U.S. dollars using
average exchange rates. The cumulative translation adjustment
resulting from changes in exchange rates are included in the
consolidated balance sheets as a component of accumulated
other comprehensive income (loss) in total
stockholders’ equity. Net foreign exchange transaction
gains (losses) are included in other income (expense) in the
consolidated statements of operations.
Investments
in Variable Interest Entities
The
Company evaluates all transactions and relationships with
variable interest entities (“VIE”) to determine
whether the Company is the primary beneficiary of the
entities in accordance with FASB ASC 810, Consolidation
(“FASB ASC 810”).
The
Company’s overall methodology for evaluating
transactions and relationships under the VIE requirements
includes the following two steps:
• determine
whether the entity meets the criteria to qualify as a VIE;
and
• determine
whether the Company is the primary beneficiary of the
VIE.
In
performing the first step, the significant factors and
judgments that the Company considers in making the
determination as to whether an entity is a VIE
include:
• the
design of the entity, including the nature of its risks and
the purpose for which the entity was created, to determine
the variability that the entity was
designed
to create and distribute to its interest
holders;
• the
nature of the Company’s involvement with the
entity;
• whether
control of the entity may be achieved through
arrangements that do not involve voting
equity;
• whether
there is sufficient equity investment at risk to finance
the activities of the entity; and
• whether
parties other than the equity holders have the
obligation to absorb expected losses or the right to
receive residual returns.
If the Company identifies a VIE based on the above
considerations, it then performs the second step and
evaluates whether it is the primary beneficiary of the
VIE by considering the following significant factors
and judgments:
• whether
the entity has the power to direct the
activities of a variable interest entity that most
significantly impact the entity’s economic
performance; and
• whether
the entity has the obligation to absorb losses
of the entity that could potentially be significant
to the variable interest entity or the right to
receive
benefits from the entity that could potentially be
significant to the variable interest
entity.
As
of June 30, 2011, the Company had no material interests in
VIEs
Investments
in Affiliated Companies
At
June 30, 2011, the Company holds one-half of the equity
interests in Insituform Rohrsanierungstechniken GmbH
(“Insituform-Germany”), through its indirect
subsidiary, Insituform Technologies Limited (UK). Through its
Bayou subsidiary, the Company holds a forty-nine percent
(49%) equity interest in Bayou Coating, LLC (“Bayou
Coating”). The Company holds a forty-nine percent (49%)
ownership interest in WCU.
Net
income presented below includes Bayou Coating’s
forty-one percent (41%) interest in Bayou Delta, which is
eliminated for purposes of determining the Company’s
equity in earnings of affiliated companies because Bayou
Delta is consolidated in the Company’s financial
statements as a result of its additional ownership through
another subsidiary. The Company’s equity in earnings of
affiliated companies for all periods presented below include
acquisition related depreciation and amortization expenses
and are net of income taxes.
Financial
data for these investments in affiliated companies for the
six-month periods ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 are summarized
in the following table below (in thousands):
Newly
Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In
October 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-13, Multiple-Deliverable
Revenue Arrangements. ASU 2009-13 establishes the
accounting and reporting guidance for arrangements including
multiple revenue-generating activities and provides
amendments to the criteria for separating deliverables and
measuring and allocating arrangement consideration to one or
more units of accounting. The amendments also establish a
selling price hierarchy for determining the selling price of
a deliverable. Significantly enhanced disclosures are also
required to provide information about a vendor’s
multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements, including
information about the nature and terms, significant
deliverables, and its performance within arrangements. The
amendments also require providing information about the
significant judgments made and changes to those judgments and
about how the application of the relative selling-price
method affects the timing or amount of revenue recognition.
These principles became effective for the Company for periods
beginning on or after January 1, 2011, on a prospective
basis. The change in principle outlined above did not have a
material impact to the Company.
ASU
No 2010-29 amends existing guidance for disclosure of
supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business
Combinations. This ASU specifies that when financial
statements are presented, the revenue and earnings of the
combined entity should be disclosed as though the business
combination that occurred during the current year had
occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual
reporting period only and expanded the required disclosures.
ASU 2010-29 is effective for business combinations with
acquisition dates on or after January 1, 2011. The adoption
of this update did not have a material impact on the
Company’s consolidated financial statements.
ASU
No. 2011-04 generally provides a uniform framework for
fair value measurements and related disclosures between GAAP
and International Financial Reporting Standards
(“IFRS”). Additional disclosure requirements in
the update include: (1) for Level 3 fair value
measurements, quantitative information about unobservable
inputs used, a description of the valuation processes used by
the entity, and a qualitative discussion about the
sensitivity of the measurements to changes in the
unobservable inputs; (2) for an entity’s use of a
nonfinancial asset that is different from the asset’s
highest and best use, the reason for the difference;
(3) for financial instruments not measured at fair value
but for which disclosure of fair value is required, the fair
value hierarchy level in which the fair value measurements
were determined; and (4) the disclosure of all transfers
between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. ASU
2011-04 will be effective for interim and annual periods
beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The Company
believes the adoption of this update will not have a material
impact on the Company.
ASU
No. 2011-05 amends existing guidance by allowing only
two options for presenting the components of net income and
other comprehensive income: (1) in a single continuous
financial statement (statement of comprehensive income), or
(2) in two separate but consecutive financial statements
(consisting of an income statement followed by a separate
statement of other comprehensive income). Also, items that
are reclassified from other comprehensive income to net
income must be presented on the face of the financial
statements. ASU No. 2011-05 requires retrospective
application, and is effective for fiscal years, and interim
periods within those years, beginning after December 15,
2011, with early adoption permitted. The Company believes the
adoption of this update will change the order in which
certain financial statements are presented and provide
additional detail on those financial statements when
applicable, but will not have an impact on our results of
operations.
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