Fair Value of Financial Instruments

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Notes to Financial Statements

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Authoritative accounting guidance defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and establishes a fair value hierarchy. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between participants at the measurement date. Fair value measurements are not adjusted for transaction costs. The fair value hierarchy prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three levels:

Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable, either directly or indirectly, and reasonably available.

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs which reflect the assumptions that management develops based on available information about the assumptions market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability.

The classification of financial instruments valued at fair value at June 30, 2011 is as follows:

Financial Instruments	Level 1		Level 2		Total
Cash equivalents	$	20,559,000		—	$	20,559,000
Securities		258,000	$	861,000		1,119,000
	$	20,817,000	$	861,000	$	21,678,000

Securities include common stock of $258,000, valued on the last business day of the period at the last available reported sales price on the primary securities exchange (Level 1) and municipal bonds of $861,000, valued based on prices obtained from pricing sources, which derive values from observable inputs (Level 2).