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Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies: Financial Instruments (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Policies  
Financial Instruments

Financial Instruments

 

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, highly liquid short-term investments, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, stockholder loans and third party notes payable.  The Company does not hold or issue financial instruments for trading purposes and does not hold any derivative financial instruments.

 

The Company’s investment policy is to achieve, in order of importance, the financial objectives of preservation of principal, liquidity and return on investment.  Investments are made in U.S. obligations and bank securities provided the obligations are guaranteed or carry ratings appropriate for the policy.

 

The policy risks are primarily the opportunity cost of the conservative nature of the allowable investments.  As the Company is currently in the development stage, the Company has chosen to avoid investments of a trade or speculative nature.

 

Fair value of financial instruments

 

Fair value estimates discussed herein are based upon certain market assumptions and pertinent information available to management as of December 31, 2013 and 2012. The respective carrying value of certain on-balance-sheet financial instruments approximated their fair values. These financial instruments include cash and accounts payable. Fair values were assumed to approximate carrying values for cash and payables because they are short term in nature and their carrying amounts approximate fair values or they are payable on demand.

Level 1: The preferred inputs to valuation efforts are “quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities,” with the caveat that the reporting entity must have access to that market. Information at this level is based on direct observations of transactions involving the same assets and liabilities, not assumptions, and thus offers superior reliability. However, relatively few items, especially physical assets, actually trade in active markets.

 

Level 2: FASB acknowledged that active markets for identical assets and liabilities are relatively uncommon and, even when they do exist, they may be too thin to provide reliable information. To deal with this shortage of direct data, the board provided a second level of inputs that can be applied in three situations.

 

Level 3: If inputs from levels 1 and 2 are not available, FASB acknowledges that fair value measures of many assets and liabilities are less precise. The board describes Level 3 inputs as “unobservable,” and limits their use by saying they “shall be used to measure fair value to the extent that observable inputs are not available.” This category allows “for situations in which there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date”. Earlier in the standard, FASB explains that “observable inputs” are gathered from sources other than the reporting company and that they are expected to reflect assumptions made by market participants.