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Recently Issued Accounting Standards
3 Months Ended
Oct. 29, 2011
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
4.  Recently Issued Accounting Standards

Presentation of Comprehensive Income

Under existing US GAAP, entities are permitted to present other comprehensive income and its components under one of three alternative presentations, including within the statement of changes in equity which is how the Company currently presents such financial information.  In June 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued amended guidance for presenting comprehensive income.  Under that new guidance, entities will be required to present other comprehensive income and its components as either one continuous statement of net income and comprehensive income, or in two separate but consecutive statements.  The new guidance does not change the items that must be reported as part of comprehensive income or when those items should be reclassified to net income.  The new guidance will be effective for the Company beginning on July 29, 2012 (“Fiscal 2013”), and will be applied retrospectively.

Testing Goodwill for Impairment
 
In September 2011, the FASB issued amended guidance that allows an entity to use a qualitative approach to test goodwill for impairment. Previously, the carrying value of goodwill was subject to a required quantitative assessment comparing such carrying value to its respective fair value.  Under the new guidance, an entity has the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If, after assessing the totality of events or circumstances, an entity determines it is not more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then performing the quantitative assessment is unnecessary. In addition, an entity has the option to bypass the qualitative assessment for any reporting unit in any period and proceed directly to performing the quantitative assessment to determine if the carrying amount of goodwill is recoverable. The new guidance is required to be adopted by the Company no later than the beginning of Fiscal 2013.  As the Company’s fair value of its reporting units substantially exceed their respective carrying value as of the last assessment date during the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2011, the Company does not expect that this new accounting guidance will have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.