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3. Fair Value of Financial Instruments:
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Notes to Financial Statements  
3. 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.
   
  Financial instruments valued of the Company are at fair value (Level 1) at March 31, 2013 as follows:

 

                 
           Financial Instruments   Level 1   Total  
             
  Cash equivalents   $ 19,525,000   $ 19,525,000  
                 
  Securities     330,000     330,000  
                 
      $ 19,855,000   $ 19,855,000  

 

  Securities include common stock of $330,000 valued on the last business day of the period at the last available reported sales price on the primary securities exchange. As of March 31, 2013, the Company did not hold any level 2 or level 3 financial statements.