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12. Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements  
12. Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Note 12 - Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

ASU 2011-08- In September 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued “Intangibles-Goodwill and Other: Testing Goodwill for Impairment” to simplify the goodwill impairment test. The change allows companies to first decide whether they need to do the two-step test by allowing companies to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.  This amendment also includes examples of how the amended test should be carried out. This amendment is effective for annual and interim tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, although early adoption is permitted. The effect of adopting this statement is not expected to have an impact on our financial position or results of operations.

 

ASU 2011-05 - In June 2011, the FASB issued “Presentation of Comprehensive Income”. For annual periods, an entity has the option to present the components of comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. For interim periods, total comprehensive income is required to be disclosed either below net income on the income statement or as a separate statement. The Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") does not change the items that must be reported as other comprehensive income. Whether presenting two separate statements or one continuous statement in annual periods, the ASU required entities to present reclassifications from other comprehensive income in the statement reporting net income. In December 2011, however, the FASB deferred this requirement when it issued ASU 2011-12, “Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassification of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05”, which has the same effective date as ASU 2011-05. Companies must continue to disclose reclassifications from other comprehensive income on the statement that reports other comprehensive income, or in the notes to the financial statements. We adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2012, and disclosed total comprehensive income below net income on the income statement in our interim financial statements. The effect of adopting this statement is not expected to have an impact on our financial position or results of operations.

 

Other recent accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the SEC did not or are not believed by management to have a material impact on our present or future consolidated financial statements.