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Impact of Accounting Pronouncements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Impact of Accounting Pronouncements
Note 3:  Impact of Accounting Pronouncements

In January 2010, the FASB issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2010-06, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820):  Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements.  This update provides additional guidance relating to fair value measurement disclosures.  Specifically, companies are required to separately disclose significant transfers into and out of Level 1 and Level 2 measurements in the fair value hierarchy including when such transfers were recognized and the reasons for those transfers.  For Level 3 fair value measurements, the new guidance requires presentation of separate information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements.  Additionally, the FASB also clarified existing fair value measurement disclosure requirements relating to the level of disaggregation, inputs, and valuation techniques.  This accounting standard was effective at the beginning of 2010, except for the detailed Level 3 disclosures, which became effective at the beginning of 2011.  The Company adopted this accounting pronouncement, as required, and the adoption did not have a material impact on the statements taken as a whole.
 
In July 2010, the FASB issued an updated (ASU) No. 2010-20, Receivables (Topic 310):  Disclosure about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses.  This update provides guidance to improve the disclosures that an entity provides about the credit quality of its financing receivables and the related allowance for credit losses. As a result of these amendments, an entity is required to disaggregate by portfolio segment or class certain existing disclosures and provide certain new disclosures about its financing receivables and related allowance for credit losses.  This update became effective for the Company for the first interim or annual reporting period ending on or after December 15, 2010 and did not have a material impact on the statements taken as a whole.

In April 2011, FASB issued ASU No. 2011-02: A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring Is a Troubled Debt Restructuring.  The standard is intended to provide additional guidance to assist creditors in determining whether a restructuring of a receivable meets the criteria to be considered a troubled debt restructuring.  The amendments in this ASU are effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after June 15, 2011, and are to be applied retrospectively to the beginning of the annual period of adoption.  As a result of applying these amendments, an entity may identify receivables that are newly considered impaired.  Early adoption is permitted.  The Company has adopted this ASU and it did not have an impact on the financial statements as a whole.

In April 2011, FASB issued ASU No. 2011-03:  Reconsideration of Effective Control for Repurchase Agreements.  The amendments in this ASU remove from the assessment of effective control the criterion relating to the transferor’s ability to repurchase or redeem financial assets on substantially the agreed terms, even in the event of default by the transferee.  The amendments in this ASU also eliminate the requirement to demonstrate that the transferor possesses adequate collateral to fund substantially all the cost of purchasing replacement financial assets.

The guidance in this ASU is effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after December 15, 2011.  The guidance should be applied prospectively to transactions or modifications of existing transactions that occur on or after the effective date.  Early adoption is not permitted.  The Company does not anticipate that this ASU will have a material effect on its financial statements.

In May 2011, FASB issued ASU No. 2011-04:  Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs.  The amendments in this ASU generally represent clarifications of Topic 820, but also include some instances where a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or disclosing information about fair value measurements has changed.  This ASU results in common principles and requirements for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements in accordance with U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
 
The amendments in this ASU are to be applied prospectively.  For public entities, the amendments are effective during interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011.  Early application by public entities is not permitted.  The Company does not anticipate that this ASU will have a material effect on its financial statements.

In June 2011, FASB issued ASU No. 2011-05:  Amendments to Topic 220, Comprehensive Income.  Under the amendments in this ASU, an entity has the option to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements.  In both choices, an entity is required to present each component of net income along with total net income, each component of other comprehensive income along with a total for other comprehensive income and a total amount for comprehensive income.  This ASU eliminates the option to present the components of other comprehensive income as a part of the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity.  The amendments in this ASU do not change the items that must be reported in other comprehensive income or when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income.

The amendments in this ASU should be applied retrospectively.  For public entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  Early adoption is permitted, because compliance with the amendments is already permitted.  The amendments do not require any transition disclosures.