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Note 17 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2012
New Accounting Pronouncements, Policy [Policy Text Block]
17.   RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

Adopted by the Company in fiscal 2013

Effective for the interim periods and year ending May 31, 2013, the Company adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income. ASU No. 2011-05 eliminates the option to present components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in stockholders' equity and requires all non-owner changes in stockholders' equity be presented either in a single continuous statement of operations and comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. The Company elected to present two separate but consecutive statements.

Additionally, effective for the year ending May 31, 2013, the Company adopted the FASB ASU No. 2011-12, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05, which indefinitely defers the requirement in ASU No. 2011-05 to present reclassification adjustments out of accumulated other comprehensive income by component in both the statement in which net income is presented and the statement in which other comprehensive income is presented. During the deferral period, the existing requirements in U.S. GAAP for the presentation of reclassification adjustments must continue to be followed.

The adoption of these standards had no impact on our consolidated financial position other than the change in financial statement presentation.

Not yet adopted by the Company

In December 2011, the FASB issued No. ASU 2011-11:  Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2011-11”) which requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to ensure that the users of the Company’s financial statements can understand the effect that offsetting has on the Company’s financial position.  ASU 2001-11 is effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013, which corresponds to the Company’s first quarter of fiscal 2014.  Retrospective application is required for all comparative periods presented.  The adoption of ASU 2011-11 is not expected have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

The FASB issues ASUs to amend the authoritative literature in Accounting Standards Codification.  There have been a number of ASUs to date that amend the original text of the ASC.  Except for those listed above, those issued to date either (i) provide supplemental guidance, (ii) are technical corrections or (iii) are not applicable to the Company.  Additionally, there were various other accounting standards and interpretations issued during the quarter ended August 31, 2012 that the Company has not been required to adopt, none of which is expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto going forward.