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Note 2 - Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
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):

Income statement data
 
2011
   
2010
 
             
Revenue
  $ 61,402     $ 52,656  
Gross profit
    14,219       13,988  
Net income
    6,261       6,018  
Equity in earnings of affiliated companies
    1,615       2,677  

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.