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Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies: Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Policies  
Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The carrying amounts of cash and current liabilities approximate fair value because of the short-term maturity of these items. These fair value estimates are subjective in nature and involve uncertainties and matters of significant judgment, and, therefore, cannot be determined with precision.  Changes in assumptions could significantly affect these estimates.  We do not hold or issue financial instruments for trading purposes, nor do we utilize derivative instruments.

 

The FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. It also requires disclosure about how fair value is determined for assets and liabilities and establishes a hierarchy for which these assets and liabilities must be grouped, based on significant levels of inputs as follows:

 

 

Level 1:

Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

Level 2:

Quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and liabilities and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability.

 

Level 3:

Unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions.

 

The determination of where assets and liabilities fall within this hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.