NOTE A — Basis of Preparation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Chart Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the "Company" or "Chart") have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles for annual financial statements. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2011.

Principles of Consolidation: The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. Intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in consolidation. Investments in affiliates where the Company's ownership is between 20 percent and 50 percent, or where the Company does not have control, but has the ability to exercise significant influence over operations or financial policy, are accounted for under the equity method.

Use of Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Nature of Operations: The Company is a leading global supplier of standard and custom-engineered products and systems serving a wide variety of low-temperature and cryogenic applications. The Company has developed an expertise in cryogenic systems and equipment, which operate at low temperatures sometimes approaching absolute zero. The majority of the Company's products, including vacuum insulated containment vessels, heat exchangers, cold boxes and other cryogenic components, are used throughout the liquid-gas supply chain for the purification, liquefaction, distribution, storage and end-use of industrial gases and hydrocarbons. The Company has domestic operations located throughout the United States, including principal executive offices located in Ohio, and an international presence in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Cost of Sales: Any expenses associated with manufacturing are included in cost of sales. These costs include all materials, direct and indirect labor, inbound freight, purchasing and receiving, inspection, internal transfers and distribution and warehousing of inventory. In addition, shop supplies, facility maintenance costs, manufacturing engineering, project management and depreciation expense for assets used in the manufacturing process are included in cost of sales.

Selling, general and administrative costs ("SG&A"): SG&A includes selling, marketing, customer service, product management, design engineering, and other administrative costs not directly supporting the manufacturing process as well as depreciation expense associated with non-manufacturing assets. In addition, SG&A includes corporate operating expenses for executive management, accounting, tax, treasury, human resources, information technology, legal, internal audit, risk management and stock-based compensation expense.

Cash and Cash Equivalents: The Company considers all investments with an initial maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 balances include money market investments.

Short-Term Investments: From time to time, the Company invests in short-term, highly liquid, variable rate instruments, which have stated maturities of greater than three months but less than six months. These short term investments are recorded at cost which approximates fair value. The Company has determined that its investment securities are available and intended for use in current operations and, accordingly, classifies investment securities as current assets. There are no short term investments at June 30, 2011 or December 31, 2010.

Inventories: Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market with cost being determined by the first-in, first-out ("FIFO") method. The components of inventory are as follows:


	June 30, 2011		December 31, 2010
Raw materials and supplies	$	42,795	$	35,565
Work in process		29,654		23,643
Finished goods		50,789		45,227

	$	123,238	$	104,435

Revenue Recognition: For the majority of the Company's products, revenue is recognized when products are shipped, title has transferred and collection is reasonably assured. For these products, there is also persuasive evidence of an arrangement, and the selling price to the buyer is fixed or determinable. For brazed aluminum heat exchangers, cold boxes, vacuum-insulated pipe, liquefied natural gas fueling stations and engineered tanks, the Company uses the percentage of completion method of accounting. Earned revenue is based on the percentage that incurred costs to date bear to total estimated costs at completion after giving effect to the most current estimates. The cumulative impact of revisions in total cost estimates during the progress of work is reflected in the period in which these changes become known. Earned revenue reflects the original contract price adjusted for agreed upon claims and change orders, if any. Losses expected to be incurred on contracts in process, after consideration of estimated minimum recoveries from claims and change orders are charged to operations as soon as such losses are known. Pre-contract costs relate primarily to salaries and benefits incurred to support the selling effort and, accordingly, are expensed as incurred. Change orders resulting in additional revenue and profit are recognized upon approval by the customer based on the percentage that incurred costs to date bear to total estimated costs at completion. Certain contracts include incentive-fee arrangements clearly defined in the agreement and are recognized as revenue when the criteria have been met. The incentive fees in such contracts can be based on a variety of factors but the most common are the achievement of target completion dates, target costs, and/or other performance criteria. Incentive fee revenue is not recognized until it is earned. Timing of amounts billed on contracts varies from contract to contract and could cause a significant variation in working capital requirements.

Product Warranties: The Company provides product warranties with varying terms and durations for the majority of its products. The Company records warranty expense in cost of sales. The changes in the Company's consolidated warranty reserve during the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 are as follows:


	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Beginning balance	$	13,561		$	9,117		$	13,372		$	8,764
Warranty expense		1,429			1,164			3,602			2,099
Warranty usage		(2,141	)		(973	)		(4,125	)		(1,555	)

Ending balance	$	12,849		$	9,308		$	12,849		$	9,308

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets: The Company does not amortize goodwill or other indefinite lived intangible assets, but reviews them at least annually, and on an interim basis if necessary, for impairment using a measurement date of October 1st. The Company amortizes intangible assets that have finite lives over their useful lives.

The Company determines the fair value of any indefinite-lived intangible assets using a discounted cash flow method, compares the fair value to its carrying value and records an impairment loss if the carrying value exceeds its fair value. Goodwill is tested utilizing a two-step approach. After recording any impairment losses for indefinite-lived intangible assets, the Company determines the fair value of each reporting unit and compares the fair value to its carrying value, including goodwill, of such reporting unit (step one). To test for impairment, the Company is required to estimate the fair value of each reporting unit. The reporting units are also the reportable segments: Energy & Chemicals, Distribution & Storage, and BioMedical. Consistent with prior years, the Company uses the income and market approaches to develop fair value estimates, which are weighted equally to arrive at a fair value estimate for each reporting unit. With respect to the income approach, a model has been developed to estimate the fair value of each reporting unit. This fair value model incorporates estimates of future cash flows, estimates of allocations of certain assets and cash flows among reporting units, estimates of future growth rates and management's judgment regarding the applicable discount rates to use to discount those estimated cash flows. With respect to the market approach, a guideline company method is used selecting companies with similar assets or businesses to estimate fair value of each reporting unit. Changes to these judgments and estimates could result in a significantly different estimate of the fair value of the reporting units, which could result in a different assessment of the recoverability of goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangible assets. If the fair value exceeds the carrying value, no impairment loss would be recognized. If the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the goodwill of the reporting unit may be impaired. The amount of the impairment, if any, would then be measured in step two, which compares the implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill. As of October 1, 2010, the estimated fair values substantially exceeded the carrying value for all reporting units.

The following table displays the gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization for all intangible assets.


			June 30, 2011					December 31, 2010
	Estimated Useful Life		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Finite-lived assets:
Unpatented technology		9 years	$	15,198	$	(8,201	)	$	15,073	$	(7,275	)
Patents		10 years		9,024		(4,865	)		8,497		(4,304	)
Product names		14 years		5,677		(1,529	)		5,676		(1,285	)
Non-compete agreements		3 years		2,130		(2,130	)		2,130		(1,952	)
Customer relations		13 years		126,043		(43,898	)		125,848		(39,103	)

			$	158,072	$	(60,623	)	$	157,224	$	(53,919	)

Indefinite-lived intangible assets:
Trademarks and trade names			$	37,950				$	37,911
In-process research and development				3,070					3,070

			$	41,020				$	40,981

The following table represents the changes in goodwill:


Balance at December 31, 2010	$	275,913
Acquisition of Clever Fellows Innovation Consortium		2,821
Foreign currency adjustments		996

Balance at June 30, 2011	$	279,730

Amortization expense for finite-lived intangible assets was $3,288 and $2,783 for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $6,605 and $5,499 for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and is estimated to be approximately $13,000 for 2011 and an average of $11,000 for years 2012 through 2016.

Stock-based Compensation: The Company records stock-based compensation according to current accounting guidance which requires all share-based payments to employees and directors, including grants of employee stock options, to be measured at fair value on the date of grant.

During the six months ended June 30, 2011, the Company granted 146 stock options, 57 restricted stock and restricted stock unit awards, and 57 performance stock units. The stock options vest over a four year period. Restricted stock and stock unit awards vest over a three year period and performance stock units are earned over a three year measurement period.

Stock-based compensation expense was $1,400 and $1,361 for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $2,801 and $2,261 for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. As of June 30, 2011, the total stock-based compensation expected to be recognized over the weighted average period of approximately 2.1 years is $5,889.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements: In October 2009, the FASB issued ASU 2009-13, "Revenue Recognition (Topic 605) — Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements". This ASU eliminates the requirement that all undelivered elements must have objective and reliable evidence of fair value before a company can recognize the portion of the consideration that is attributable to items that already have been delivered. This may allow some companies to recognize revenue on transactions that involve multiple deliverables earlier than under the current requirements. Additionally, under the new guidance, the relative selling price method is required to be used in allocating consideration between deliverables and the residual value method will no longer be permitted. This ASU is effective prospectively for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified beginning in fiscal 2011 although early adoption is permitted. A company may elect, but will not be required, to adopt the amendments in this ASU retrospectively for all prior periods. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the financial statements of the Company.

In December 2010, the FASB issued ASU 2010-28, "Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (Topic 350)." This ASU modifies the first step of the goodwill impairment test to include reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts. For these reporting units, the second step of the goodwill impairment test shall be performed to measure the amount of impairment loss, if any, when it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists. This ASU is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2010. The Company has evaluated the ASU and does not believe it will have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.