Recent Accounting Pronouncements

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

NOTE 2 – RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS")

In November 2009, the SEC issued a proposed roadmap regarding the potential use by U.S. issuers of financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. IFRS is a comprehensive series of accounting standards published by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB"). Under the proposed roadmap, the Company may be required to prepare financial statements in accordance with IFRS as early as 2014. The SEC will make a determination later in 2012 regarding the mandatory adoption of IFRS. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this potential change would have on its operating results and financial condition, and will continue to monitor the development of the potential implementation of IFRS.

ASU No. 2011-04

In 2012, the Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2011-04, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in US GAAP and IFRSs, which changes the wording used to describe many of the requirements in U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements. The amendments clarify that the Company should disclose quantitative information about the unobservable inputs used in a fair value measurement that is categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. Requiring quantitative information does not change the objective of the requirement but increases the comparability of disclosures between disclosures under U.S. GAAP and IFRSs.

The disclosures required by this ASU are incorporated in Notes 14 and 15 in these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

ASU No. 2011-05

In 2012, the Company adopted the provisions of Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income, which increases the prominence of items reported in other comprehensive income and eliminates the option to report other comprehensive income as part of the statement of shareholders' equity. The ASU requires that all nonowner changes in shareholders' equity be presented in either a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. The adoption of this ASU did not change the items that are reported in other comprehensive income or when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income. The adoption also did not change the option to present components of other comprehensive income either net of related tax effects or before related tax effects. The tax effect for each component must be disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements or presented in the statement in which other comprehensive income is presented. The amendments also do not affect how earnings per share is calculated or presented.

The Company has chosen to present the nonowner changes in shareholders' equity in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income in its unaudited consolidated financial statements. The adoption of the ASU in the current year affects the format and presentation of its unaudited consolidated financial statements but does not represent a departure from currently adopted accounting principles and thus the adoption did not have an effect on the Company's operating results, financial position, or liquidity. The financial statements for the comparative prior period have been revised to conform to current period presentation.