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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Note 4.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Estimates

The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and use assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses.  These estimates and assumptions are affected by management’s application of accounting policies.   On an on-going basis, the Company evaluates its estimates.  Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from these estimates and assumptions.

Stock-Based Compensation

The Company measures all employee stock-based compensation awards using a fair value method on the date of grant and recognizes such expense in its consolidated financial statements over the requisite service period.  The Company uses the Black-Scholes pricing model to determine the fair value of stock-based compensation awards on the date of grant.  The Black-Scholes pricing model requires management to make assumptions regarding the warrant and option lives, expected volatility, and risk free interest rates.

Fair Value
 
The Company measures fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the reporting date. The Company utilizes a three-tier hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:
 
Level 1.  Valuations based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.  The Company has no assets or liabilities valued with Level 1 inputs.
 
Level 2.  Valuations based on quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.  The Company has no assets or liabilities valued with Level 2 inputs. 
 
Level 3.  Valuations based on inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. Liabilities valued with Level 3 inputs are described below in “Note 12. Warrants.”

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Due to the unique nature of the terms of the Sidhu Convertible Note, Convertible Note Payable, and Rayat Convertible Note, it is not practicable to determine their fair value at September 30, 2011. Please refer to “Note 10.  Notes Payable and Convertible Notes Payable” below.

The carrying value of cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable, interest payable, and accrued payroll liabilities, approximate their fair value because of the short-term nature of these instruments and their liquidity.  Management is of the opinion that the Company is not exposed to significant interest or credit risks arising from these financial instruments.
 

Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
 
The Company reviews new accounting standards as issued.  Although some of these accounting standards issued or effective after the end of the Company’s previous fiscal year may be applicable to the Company, it has not identified any standards that it believes merit further discussion.  The Company believes that none of the new standards will have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements.