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Accounting Standards
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Accounting Standards Disclosure [Abstract]  
Accounting Standards
Accounting Standards
Recently Adopted
In September 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) amended accounting standards to simplify how entities test goodwill for impairment.  The amendment reduces complexity by allowing an entity the option to make a qualitative evaluation of whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test.  The amendment is effective for our interim and annual periods beginning with the first quarter of 2012.  Adoption of this amendment did not have a significant impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
 The FASB amended the reporting standards for comprehensive income in June 2011 to eliminate the option to present the components of Other Comprehensive Income (“OCI”) as part of the statement of changes in stockholders' equity.  All non-owner changes in stockholders’ equity are required to be presented either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements.  In the two statement approach, the first statement should present total net income and its components followed consecutively by a second statement that should present total other comprehensive income, the components of OCI, and total comprehensive income.  The presentation of items that are reclassified from OCI to net income on the income statement is also required.  The amendments did not change the items that must be reported in OCI or when an item of OCI must be reclassified to net income.  The amendments are effective for us beginning with the first quarter of 2012, except for the presentation of reclassifications, which has been deferred.  Adoption of these amendments did not have a significant impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
In May 2011, the FASB issued an update amending the accounting standards for fair value measurement and disclosure, resulting in common principles and requirements under accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“U.S. GAAP”) and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”).  The amendments change the wording used to describe certain of the U.S. GAAP requirements either to clarify the intent of existing requirements, to change measurement or expand disclosure principles or to conform to the wording used in IFRS.  The amendments are to be applied prospectively for our interim and annual periods beginning with the first quarter of 2012.  The adoption of the amendments did not have a significant impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows.  To the extent they were necessary, we have made the expanded disclosures in Note 13.