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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2011
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Accounting Principles

 

These statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, which, in management’s opinion, are necessary for fair presentation of the information contained herein. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's audited financial statements on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 16, 2011.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

Our consolidated financial statements include the accounts of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, and a professional medical corporation for which we have determined that we have a controlling financial interest through a long-term management agreement. Some states have laws that prohibit business entities from practicing medicine, employing physicians to practice medicine, exercising control over medical decisions by physicians (collectively known as the corporate practice of medicine), or engaging in certain arrangements with physicians, such as fee-splitting. In California, and in accordance with these laws, we operate by maintaining a long-term management contract with a professional medical corporation, which is owned and operated by physicians, and which employ or contract with additional physicians to provide hospitalist services. Under this management agreement, we have exclusive authority over all non-medical management and administrative services, including financial management, information systems, marketing, risk management and administrative support. The management agreement has an initial term of 20 years.

 

All intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.

 

Reclassification

 

Certain comparative amounts have been reclassified to conform to the three month periods ended July 31, 2011 and 2010.

 

 

The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, trade and other receivables, trade and other payables approximate their fair values due to the short maturities of these instruments.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

In December 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2010-29,   Business Combinations, Disclosure of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations (“ASU 2010-29”), which provides clarification regarding pro forma revenue and earnings disclosure requirements for business combinations.  The amendments in this ASU specify that if a public entity presents comparative financial statements, the entity should disclose only revenue and earnings of the combined entity as though the business combination(s) that occurred during the current year had occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period.  The amendments also expand the supplemental pro forma disclosures to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings.  The amendments are effective prospectively for business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2010.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company adopted ASU 2010-29 during the first interim reporting period of 2011 as it relates to pro-forma disclosure of the Company’s acquisitions.  The adoption of ASU 2010-29 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

 

ASU No. 2010-28, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts   (“ASU 2010-28”) was issued in December 2010.  The amendments in this ASU modify Step 1 of the goodwill impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts.  For those reporting units, an entity is required to perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test if it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists.  In determining whether it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists, an entity should consider whether there are any events or circumstances that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying amount.  The amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2010. Early adoption is not permitted.  The Company adopted ASU 2010-28 for the quarter ending March 31, 2011.