Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

6 Months Ended

Oct. 01, 2011

Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

Note 2. Recent Accounting Changes and Accounting Pronouncements

In the first quarter of fiscal 2012, the Company adopted the new authoritative guidance for revenue arrangements with multiple deliverables. This guidance established a selling price hierarchy, which allows the use of an estimated selling price to determine the selling price of a deliverable in cases where neither vendor-specific objective evidence nor third-party evidence is available. The adoption of this new guidance did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2012, the Company adopted the new authoritative guidance that clarifies which revenue allocation and measurement guidance should be used for arrangements that contain both tangible products and software, in cases where the software is more than incidental to the tangible product as a whole. More specifically, if the software sold with or embedded within the tangible product is essential to the functionality of the tangible product, then this software as well as undelivered software elements that relate to this software are excluded from the scope of existing software revenue guidance. The adoption of this new guidance did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In April 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued the authoritative guidance that results in common principles and requirements for measuring and disclosing fair value, which apply to all reporting entities that are required or permitted to measure or disclose the fair value of an asset, a liability, or an instrument classified in a reporting entity’s shareholders’ equity in the financial statements. Some of the amendments clarify the FASB’s intent about the application of existing fair value measurement requirements. Other amendments change a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or for disclosing information about fair value measurements. This guidance is to be applied prospectively. For public entities, this guidance is effective during interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011, which for the Company is its fourth quarter of fiscal 2012. Early application is not permitted. The Company does not expect this new guidance to have significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In June 2011, the FASB issued the authoritative guidance to improve the comparability, consistency, and transparency of financial reporting and to increase the prominence of items reported in other comprehensive income. Under this guidance, an entity has the option to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. The guidance is to be applied retrospectively. For public entities, this guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011, which for the Company is its first quarter of fiscal 2013. Early application is permitted. This guidance does not affect the underlying accounting for components of other comprehensive income, but will change the presentation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2011, the FASB issued the authoritative guidance that gives companies the option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount and, in some cases, skip the two-step impairment test for purposes of evaluating goodwill. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, which for the Company is for its fiscal year 2013. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect this new guidance to have significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.