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Note 3 - Fair Value of Financial Instruments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
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Note 3 - Fair Value of Financial Instruments

NOTE 3 – FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

 

Disclosures about fair value of financial instruments require disclosure of the fair value information, whether or not recognized in the balance sheet, where it is practicable to estimate that value.  As of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, we believe the amounts reported for cash, accounts payable and accrued expenses, accrued interest and penalties payable, notes payable and stockholder advances approximate fair value because of the short-term nature of these financial instruments.

 

We adopted ASC Topic 820 (originally issued as SFAS 157, "Fair Value Measurements") for financial instruments measured as fair value on a recurring basis.  ASC Topic 820 defines fair value, established a framework for measuring fair value in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements.

 

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.  ASC Topic 820 established a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value.  The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).  These tiers include:

 

·           Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets;

·           Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and

·           Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.

Liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis were as follows at March 31, 2016:

 

 

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative liability

$7,168,777

$-

$-

$7,168,777

Convertible debentures, net of discount

2,596,757

-

-

2,596,757

Current portion of long-term debt, net     of discount

29,777

-

-

29,777

Long-term debt, net of current portion     and discount

134,893

-

-

134,893

 

 

 

 

 

   Total liabilities measured at fair value

$9,930,204

$-

$-

$9,930,204