XML 15 R11.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT  v2.3.0.11
New Accounting Pronouncements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
New Accounting Pronouncements  
New Accounting Pronouncements

Note 6 – NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2011-04, "Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) - Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs."  This ASU addresses fair value measurement and disclosure requirements within Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 820 for the purpose of providing consistency and common meaning between U.S. GAAP and IFRSs.  Generally, this ASU is not intended to change the application of the requirements in Topic 820.  Rather, this ASU primarily changes the wording to describe many of the requirements in U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value or for disclosing information about fair value measurements.  This ASU is effective for periods beginning after December 15, 2011.  It is not expected to have any impact on the Trust's financial statements or disclosures.

 

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-05, "Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income."  This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income ("OCI") in the financial statements and provides companies two options for presenting OCI, which until now has typically been placed within the statement of equity.  One option allows an OCI statement to be included with the net income statement, and together the two will make a statement of total comprehensive income.  Alternately, companies may present an OCI statement separate from the net income statement; however, the two statements will have to appear consecutively within a financial report.  This ASU does not affect the types of items that are reported in OCI, nor does it affect the calculation or presentation of earnings per share.  For public companies, this ASU is effective for periods beginning after December 15, 2011.  The Trust will adopt the OCI presentation requirements required by ASU No. 2011-05 beginning with its first quarter in 2012.